Belmont (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0M 1C0)
1. Crowes Mills Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
James Crowe built mills here in 1785.
2. McCallum Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for early settlers who moved into the area in the early 1800s. The place was first called West Branch North River.
  3. Debert Wildlife Management Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Lower Onslow Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Onslow Mountain Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Certain Lands at Debert, Colchester County (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Debert / Cottam Settlement (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the early 1700s the French called this place Ville de Bourg or Deburk, but over time that changed to Deburt and then to the contemporary Debert.
  8. Debert Range (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. East Folly Mountain (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The settlement got its name from high hills on the E side of the Folly River. Settled in the mid-1800s by descendants of the Londonderry Township proprietors.
  10. East Mines (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. East Mines Station (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name derived from the E mines of the Acadia Charcoal Iron Co, and was settled in the early 1800s. The Steel Co. of Canada bought Acadian Charcoal Co. in 1874.
12. Folly Lake / Stevens (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Folly Lake is17 km N of where Scottish settler James Flemming established a farm in 1762 on very rocky ground and against local advice.
  13. Folly Lake Station (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Folly Mountain / Probert (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Lower Debert (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Lower Debert Beach (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. MacElmons Pond Provincial Park (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Moose Lake (Debert) (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Staples Brook (Debert, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1820 John Staples petitioned for land “in the rear of Londonderry.'
20. Beaver Brook (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
James Yuill and his son James settled at nearby Old Barns in the late 1700s and their land grant was settled as Beaver Brook, named for the many beaver dams on the brook.
21. Bible Hill (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
English settlement began around 1761. The name results from the ministry of Rev. Dr. William McCulloch (1811-95) who served Truro's First Presbyterian (now First United) Church from 1839-85.
22. Brookside, Truro (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The W section of East Mountain became subdivided into the local place names of Brookside and Upper Brookside, or Jollytown as it was called by James Little, Samuel McNutt, James Wright, Fred Shultz and Ebenezer Harris when they were the only residents
23. Burnside, Truro (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive; 'burn' is Scottish for a brook. First named Odin after one of the Norse gods. Settlement began around 1785.
  24. Calvary River Wilderness Area (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Central North River (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Central Onslow (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. East Mountain (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
28. Fort Belcher (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
By 1748, 15 Acadian families lived here but they left before 1755.
29. Greenfield (Truro) (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named by surveyor Alexander Miller around 1817.
  30. Harmony (Truro) (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Harmony Road (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Hilden (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
When the Intercolonial Railroad began operating through here the place was called Halifax Road. Settlement began in the 1780s.
33. Kemptown (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named by surveyor Alexander Miller for Sir James Kempt (1764-1854), Lt.-Gov. of the province from 1820-28. David Archibald II, one of the first settlers, built mills here before 1790.
  34. Lower Harmony (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Lower Truro (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Abraham, Jean and Pierre Bourg, who were listed in the 1714 census as being residents of Cobequid, are believed to have begun settlement here, which by 1756 was known as Vil La Bourg.
36. Manganese Mines (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was named when manganese was discovered and mined here. A few barrels of manganese were mined in 1880 and a few tons in 1891. Settled after 1761 by immigrants from NH and MA.
  37. Manganese Mines Wildlife Management Area (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Masstown (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1689 a seigneury at the head of Cobequid Bay was granted to Mathieu Martin of Port Royal. Settlement began after 1700.
  39. McCurdys Corner (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Millbrook (Truro) (Truro, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for a gristmill built on a brook that flows into the Salmon River. Little settlement occurred here until Aboriginal people were relocated from Elmsdale and Shubenacadie in the 1930s.