Alder Point (Cape Breton Island, B1Y 1B0)
1. Alder Point Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for the abundance of alder bushes. Poupet de la Boulardarie, son of the Boulardarie island grantee, came here in 1738 and built a large house, dairy, barns and mills.
2. Little Bras d'Or South Side / Sullivans Point Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
3. Little Pond Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
So named because it was the smaller of two ponds in the area. Kenneth Cameron received permission to occupy land here before 1798.
4. McCreadyville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for an early settler. Hon. Thomas Crawley, surveyor-general of Cape Breton Island for more than 30 years, was granted a large tract of land in 1791. By 1809 he had leased the land for 14 years.
5. Millville (Bras D'or) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named because there once was a mill here. The land in the area was granted in the 1840s although there had been settlement before that time.
6. Point Aconi Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
This sharp, needle-like promontory that juts into the Atlantic was named from the Greek word acon, for 'dart.'
  7. Mill Creek (Bras D'or) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Florence (Florence, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The site was part of a grant made to James Gay in 1794 and he settled here soon after. The place was called Cox's in the 1800s for a family of that name that lived here.
  9. Florence Beach (Florence, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Big Bras d'Or (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Black Brook, Big Bras d'Or (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for a local feature. In the late 1800s the place was called Big Bank. The earliest grants made here were in 1832.
12. Bras D'or (Lake) (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Bras d'Or Lake: 'The Mi'kmaw name for the lake was Petoobook, meaning a long dish full of salt water.”
  13. Christies Beach (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Dalem Lake (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Dalem Lake Provincial Park (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Groves Point (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Groves Point Provincial Park (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Hillside Boularderie (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Corbett Ritchie had settled here before 1818.
  19. Island Point (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Kempt Head (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In Victoria County on the W end of Boularderie Island, likely named for Sir James Kempt (1764-1854), Lt.-Gov. of the province from 1820-28, although Alexander Kempt was among settlers who came here in 1829.
21. Little Bras d'Or (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1671 historian Nicolas Denys (1598-1688) described the lake: 'That which is called labrador is a stretch of the sea cutting in half the island of Cape Breton.'
22. Long Island Main (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Mill Pond (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. New Dominion (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named after Dominion, another Cape Breton community. Thomas Coldwell received a land grant here in 1855.
25. South Side of Boularderie (Bras d'Or, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Ann Ingouville had a land grant here in 1829 and Sarah McIntyre in 1872.
26. Sydney Mines (Sydney Mines, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called simply The Mines and later named for Thomas Townshend, first Viscount Sydney. Coal was shipped from here to Boston in 1724 and to Martinique in 1732.
27. Barrachois Harbour (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Barrachois or Barachois is a common place name in Atlantic Canada... more than 30 times in Nova Scotia alone. The word is of Basque origin from 'barratxo' or 'barrachoa' for sandbar.
  28. Barrachois Provincial Park (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Barrachois, Cape Breton (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Centreville, Sydney (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Gannon Road (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called French Village; later named for an early settler. In 1808 Francis Young got a Crown lease and called it Mon Espoir, 'my hope.'
32. Georges River / Watson (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the 1760s the cove was called Swanton Cove and was likely renamed to honour King George II or III. Baptiste Josson was living here in 1818.
33. Ironville (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named when iron ore was found here. James McSwayze was here about 1820 and Thomas Jost had built a mill here before he received his grant in 1846.
34. Leitches Creek (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Also along the same creek are Leitches Creek Station and Upper Leitches Creek.
  35. Leitches Creek Station (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. North Sydney (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
For many years this place was called Bar Town or North Bar because the harbour contained one of the largest sandbars in Cape Breton.
37. Scotch Lake (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The community took its name from the lake which had been so named because most of the settlers were from Scotland. William Fyff settled here in 1822 to build a mill on George River.
38. Upper North Sydney / Pottle(s) Lake (North Sydney, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Ashby (Sydney, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Balls Creek (Sydney, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Hon. Ingraham Ball who had a land grant bordering on the creek in 1795.