Barrington Passage (South Shore, B0W 1G0)
1. Barrington Passage / Northeast Point 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.
2. Crowell 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.
3. Doctors Cove 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.''
4. Sherose Island 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.
  5. North East Point Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Clam Point (Stoney Island, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because settlers found piles of clam shells left by Aboriginal peoples.
  7. Stoney Island (Stoney Island, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Atwoods Brook (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named in 1776 for New England Planter Joseph Atwood from Cape Cod, MA.
9. Bear Point (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Land grants were issued here in 1767. The name is believed to have originally been Bare Point for a lack of vegetation at the time. There is no record of any incident involving a bear. One of the first lobster factories on the coast was established here.
  10. East Side (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Lower Shag Harbour / Bon Portage (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Bon Portage: A small Island off Shag Harbour made famous by Evelyn Richardson's novels. She won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction for her novel We Keep A Light. The name is French for 'good carrying place.'
12. Seal Island (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A cluster of five small Islands due W of Cape Sable Island, named Îles aux Loups Martins, 'seal islands' by Samuel de Champlain in 1604.
13. Shag Harbour (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Shag was an early French word for 'cormorant.' Samuel de Champlain's map of 1614 shows a trading post near Cape Sable at the mouth of Shag Harbour Brook called Vieux Logis, old house.
  14. West Side (Shag Harbour, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Atlantic (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.
16. Blanche (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.
17. Cape Negro (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.'
18. Ingomar / Greenwood (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.
19. North East Harbour (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.
  20. North West Harbour (Port Clyde, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Port Clyde (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.
22. Port Saxon (Port Clyde, 14km) 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.
23. Reynoldscroft (Port Clyde, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Knowles Reynolds, who was living in the Cape Negro area in 1828.
24. Roseway (Cape) (Port Clyde, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The communities of Roseway and Roseway Beach are near the W entrance to Shelburne Harbour.
25. Round Bay (Port Clyde, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name Chebookstook, 'the great harbour,' would have included this area.
26. Thomasville (Port Clyde, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Elam and David Thomas settled here around 1783.
  27. Upper Port La Tour (Port Clyde, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Beaverdam Lake (Clyde River, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Bowers Meadows Wilderness Area (Clyde River, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Clyde River (Clyde River, 16km) 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.
  31. Lower Clyde River (Clyde River, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Quinns Meadow Nature Reserve (Clyde River, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Baccaro (Barrington, 18km) 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.
34. Barrington (Barrington, 18km) 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.
  35. Barrington Head (Barrington, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Barrington West (Barrington, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Brass Hill (Barrington, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A black man named Brass lived atop the hill in the 1760s.
38. Coffinscroft (Barrington, 18km) 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.
  39. East Baccaro (Barrington, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Goose Lake (Barrington, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review