Barrington (South Shore, B0W 1E0)
1. Baccaro Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Pointe de Bacareau is prominently featured on a 1684 map of this part of the coastline. The name is likely of Basque origin and is one of the many names for codfish.
2. Barrington Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 637-2015 FAX: (902) 637-2075 - Leave a Public Review
The French called the place Le Passage and the Mi'kmaq called it Ministiguish or Ministegek. For a time it was Barrington Head because of its position at the head of Barrington Bay.
3. Brass Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
A black man named Brass lived atop the hill in the 1760s.
4. Coffinscroft Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The native name Menstuges covered this area. The Mi'kmaq name for the beach was Exsaddy weektook and the first English name was The Hill for those formed by winds blowing sand up from the beach.
5. Oak Park Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began here in 1810. Early settlers called the place Prevost Village to honour Sir George Prevost (1767-1816), Lt.-Gov. of Nova Scotia from 1808–11.
6. Port La Tour Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour (1593-1666) was an adventurer, trader and colonizer who came to Acadia while in his teens.
7. Villagedale Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began here between 1761 and 1768, with arrivals from Nantucket. The place was first named The Hill and then Solid Rock until villagers decided in 1876 to name the place Villagedale.
  8. Barrington Head Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Barrington West Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. East Baccaro Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Goose Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Port La Tour Bogs Wilderness Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. River Head Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Riverhead Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Sand Hills Beach Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Smithsville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. West Baccaro Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Beaverdam Lake (Clyde River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Bowers Meadows Wilderness Area (Clyde River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Clyde River (Clyde River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The river rises in Shelburne County and flows into the Atlantic at Negro Harbour. The river was first called Cape Negro River but by 1785 the name Clyde came to be used for both the river and the community.
  21. Lower Clyde River (Clyde River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Quinns Meadow Nature Reserve (Clyde River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Atlantic (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
It was first called Red Head and then renamed because it was well out into the Atlantic relative to neighbouring communities.
24. Blanche (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mi'kmaq called the place Kespoogwit, 'the end of land.' Settled by pre-Revolution New Englanders in the 1760s. Blanche is French for 'white,' in this case, white sand.
25. Cape Negro (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name was Kespooguit, 'the end of land’! Samuel de Champlain named the place in 1604 for the black rocks opposite the cape which he said at a distance resembled 'a negro's head.'
26. Ingomar / Greenwood (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Koomnodeech, ‘small harbour.' The present name is from settlers of the 1760s.
27. North East Harbour (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name for Cape Negro was Kespoogwit, 'lands end.' The present name comes from the community's location. Settled in the late 1700s.
  28. North West Harbour (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Port Clyde (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Clyde River rises in Shelburne County and flows into the Atlantic at Negro Harbour. Settled by Loyalists in 1767, and the river was named in 1785 for the River Clyde in Scotland.
30. Port Saxon (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Indian Brook because it was a Mi'kmaw resort. Saxon is a Scottish name, likely from Saxonia, an area around the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
31. Reynoldscroft (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Knowles Reynolds, who was living in the Cape Negro area in 1828.
32. Roseway (Cape) (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The communities of Roseway and Roseway Beach are near the W entrance to Shelburne Harbour.
33. Round Bay (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name Chebookstook, 'the great harbour,' would have included this area.
34. Thomasville (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Elam and David Thomas settled here around 1783.
  35. Upper Port La Tour (Port Clyde, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Barrington Passage / Northeast Point (Barrington Passage, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name for the place was Ministegek, 'he has gone for it,' and the French called the place Le Passage because of the Channel between Cape Sable Island and the mainland.
37. Crowell (Barrington Passage, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1768 Simon and Judah Crowell and Elisha Hopkins laid out their land grant here. When their descendants grew numerous, the N part was called Hopkinstown and the S section was Crowelltown.
38. Doctors Cove (Barrington Passage, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The site was included in the Barrington Bay area first known as Menstugek. The French called the passage La Passage, 'The Passage.''
  39. North East Point (Barrington Passage, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Sherose Island (Barrington Passage, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Archelaus Smith and Thomas Crowell, Jr., settled on what was then called Shoroes Island in 1761. The island was later named for an early settler.