Cape Breton (Cape Breton Island, B1P 7B9)
1. Ben Eoin (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is Gaelic for 'Jonathan's Mountain.' The Scots often call two of their family by the same Christian name. When it is John, the second is called Jonathan, the Gaelic of which is Eoin.
  2. Ben Eoin Provincial Park (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Big Glen (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Big Pond (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Nearby are Rear Big Pond on Breac Brook and Big PondCentre 3 km SW of Big Pond which is at the mouth of Breac Brook. The First Nations peoples called the area Edoobukuk and it was so shown on maps as recent as 1868.
  5. Big Pond Beach (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Big Pond Centre (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Breac Brook (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Rory Brach was settled here before 1823.
8. East Bay (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The community takes its name from the bay it faces. The Mi'kmaq called the place Aglaseawakade, 'the English settlement and another native name still sometimes used, is Tweednooge.
9. Enon (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This place originally was part of Loch Lomond. The name Enon had been in use since 1873 and was officially changed in 1905 by an Act of Parliament. Enon was a biblical place of springs.
10. Gillis Lake (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for Donald Gillis who got a land grant nearby in 1838.
11. Glen Morrison (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Morrison family, early settlers. Donald and Angus Morrison chose their land here in 1824.
12. Glengarry Valley (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Glengarry Settlement when a grant was made to Donald McInnis in 1859. Named for Glengarry in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
13. McAdams Lake (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Donald McAdam from PEI who settled here in 1833. In 1891 coal mining was carried out here.
  14. Middle Cape (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. North Glen (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
By 1875 three Morrison families and a McDonald and McCuish family lived here.
16. Northside East Bay / McKenzie East Bay (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Northside East Bay: The Aboriginal peoples called the place Aglaseawakade, 'the English settlement.' Edmond McAdam from Scotland emigrated to PEI in 1990 and then moved here in 1815.
17. Portage (East Bay) (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because there was a portage nearby between the Sydney River and East Bay. Peter Grinton from Scotland was granted land here in 1827.
  18. Rear Big Pond (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Rear Boisdale (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because it was inland from Boisdale on the St. Andrews Channel. Settled in the early 1800s by Campbells, McIntyres and McLeans.
  20. Rear of East Bay (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Salem Road (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. St. Andrews Channel (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the early 1800s East Bay was known as St. Andrews Channel after the Scottish patron saint.
23. Terra Nova (East Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Angus Morrison received a land grant here in 1859 and named the place Terra Nova, meaning 'new land.'
24. Blacketts Lake (Sydney Forks, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Walter W. Blackett from London, England, who settled here in 1818.
25. Howie Centre (Sydney Forks, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1825, John, James and Alexander Howie and Benjamin Cossitt applied for lands that had been granted to Hon. Thomas Townsend in 1790, but which he had forfeited. Their grant was made in 1827.
26. Meadows Road (Sydney Forks, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
George Kentley came here in 1811 and stayed for 18 months.
27. Sydney Forks (Sydney Forks, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name was in use as early as 1811. Philip Ingouville from Jersey received a land grant here in 1788, which he called Hampton Court.
28. Big Ridge (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name, given before 1872, is descriptive. Settlement here began in the mid-1800s.
  29. Big Ridge South (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Campbelldale (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for early settlers. Malcolm McLean received a land grant here in 1864.
31. Caribou Marsh (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Natives called the place Kalebooakade, 'caribou place.'
  32. Caribou Marsh 29 (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Hillsdale Road (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Hillside (Sydney) (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive. In 1803 a large land grant was made to Hon. William Despard, but settlement did not begin until some years later. In the 1870s the Hill family had a shingle sawmill here.
35. Huntington (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Huntington family. Caleb Huntington came here from the US in 1807 and bought land on the side of Morien Bay, later settling on the Mira River.
  36. Juniper Mountain (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Marion Bridge (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place is said to have been named for the builder of the bridge. The first settlers came from North Uist, Scotland, between 1824 and 1834.
  38. Marion Bridge Road (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Oakfield (Cape Breton) (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Rock Elm (Marion Bridge, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1804 William and Alexander Haire received large land grants here. Settlement by Scots began in the 1820s.