Baddeck (Cape Breton Island, B0E 1B0)
1. Baddeck Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Baddeck is the shiretown of Victoria County. The name may derive from the Mi'kmaw words Bedek, Ebedek or Abadak, changed by early French settlers to Bedeque.
2. Baddeck Bay / Rear Baddeck Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mark Crowdis and his son had land grants here in 1832.
3. Baddeck Bridge Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Loyalist Lydia Wheeler had a land grant here in 1786.
4. Beinn Bhreagh Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name was chosen by Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) for his estate. The Mi'kmaq had called the place Megwatpatek, meaning ‘red head,' for the reddish-coloured rocks of a mountain.
5. Big Harbour Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
There was a school here in 1851 and by 1865, a post office.
6. Forks Baddeck Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In Victoria County on the Baddeck River at its confluence with Peter's Brook 13 km N of Baddeck. First called Big Baddeck and settled by Loyalists in the late 1700s.
7. Glen Tosh Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the 1830s and first known as Big Hill, later renamed to honour Rev. Abraham McIntosh (1820-1889), a Presbyterian minister here from 1856-89.
8. Inlet Baddeck Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Capt. Jonathan Jones, a Loyalist, was one of the first settlers in 1784.
9. Long Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Duncan McAulay had a land grant here in 1842.
10. New Glen Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
11. Plaister Mines Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Angus Matheson was the first land grantee here in 1856. The name is descriptive.
12. Port Bevis Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Bevis was an American with the company that mined plaster rock here. Angus McMillan and John McLeod were early settlers in 1859.
13. Rear Big Hill / Peters Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
14. Rear Forks Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Rear Big Hill. John Campbell had a land grant here in 1859.
15. South Side of Baddeck River Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mark Crowdis settled before he was granted land in 1807.
  16. Big Baddeck Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Big Farm Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Big Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Crescent Grove Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. MacAulays Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. MacAulays Hill Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Beaver Cove (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Although beaver were undoubtedly plentiful here, an Irish settler in the early 1800s named Beaver and the place was likely named after him.
24. Big Beach (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Natives called the place Amamkeak, 'long sandy beach.' John and Donald McNeil and John McPhie were settled here by 1812.
25. Big Brook (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the early 1800s by Scots from PEI.
26. Boisdale (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Migcheehwegatik. In 1823 the first settlers named the place after their home place on Loch Boisdale, South Uist, Scotland.
27. Christmas Island (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq first called the place Abadakwitchech meaning ‘small reserved portion. Opposite the community named Christmas Island is a small island bearing the same name.
28. Cross Point (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for its location. Scotsman John McKinnon and his son John settled here in 1826.
29. Glasgow (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for the Scottish city. Hector and Hugh McSwayne were settled here by 1817. A post office was established in 1892.
30. Pipers Cove (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Norman MacNeil, official piper to the chief of Clan MacNeil, who emigrated from Barra, Scotland to Pictou in 1802 and the following year moved here. The place name attests to his prowess with the pipes.
  31. Rear Christmas Island (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Shenacadie (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Shenacadie Beach (Christmas Island, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Barra Glen (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Cains (Mountain) (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Murdock Matheson had the first land grant here in 1846.
  36. Cains Mountain Wilderness Area (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Estmere (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
'Mere' is a Scottish word for pond, pool or lakelet, and sometimes the sea, and 'est' is French for E. This place name was given by Act of Parliament in 1887.
  38. Gillis Point (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
39. Gillis Point East / McNeils Vale (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Grand Narrows (Iona, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
he Mi'kmaw name for the place was Taawitk, place where the water flows out.' Hector McNeil was one of the first Barra Scots to settle here about 1804.