Christmas Island (Cape Breton Island, B1T 1A0)
1. Beaver Cove 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.
2. Big Beach 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.
3. Big Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the early 1800s by Scots from PEI.
4. Boisdale 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.
5. Christmas Island 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.
6. Cross Point Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for its location. Scotsman John McKinnon and his son John settled here in 1826.
7. Glasgow 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.
8. Pipers Cove 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.
  9. Rear Christmas Island Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Shenacadie Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Shenacadie Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Barra Glen (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
13. Cains (Mountain) (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Murdock Matheson had the first land grant here in 1846.
  14. Cains Mountain Wilderness Area (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Estmere (Iona, 5km) 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.
  16. Gillis Point (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Gillis Point East / McNeils Vale (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Grand Narrows (Iona, 5km) 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.
19. Grass Cove (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hector and John McNeil received land grants here in 1835.
20. Highland Hill (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Land grantees in 1835 were Donald, Malcolm and Roderick McNeil.
21. Iona (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
On the W side of the Grand Narrows of Barra Strait of Bras d'Or Lake and once part of what was known as Grand Narrows Settlement on Hwy. 233.
  22. Iona Beach (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Iona Rear (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald, Malcolm and Roderick McNeil had land grants here by 1835.
24. Jamesville (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Nackady. A statute of the province renamed the place in 1883 for early settlers.
  25. Jamesville West (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Lower Washabuck (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in 1877 by John McNeil, Matthew King and Peter S. McLean.
  27. MacNeils Vale (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Malagawatch 4 (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. McKinnons Harbour (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Amasiboogwek, ‘a grand river.' Roderick and Allan McKinnon, who reached Pictou in 1802, applied for land in 1809. In 1817 John McKinnon from Barra, Scotland, settled here.
30. Ottawa Brook (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John and Peter NcDonald and Hector McLean had grants here in 1910.
31. Plaster (Cove) (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hector McNeil was the first settler in 1872.
32. Red Point (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Alexander McDougald had settled here by 1859.
  33. Red Point East (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. South Cove (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John McIvor had the first land grant here, in 1835.
35. St. Columba (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald McNeil had a land grant here in 1851.
36. Upper Washabuck (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Capt. Jonathan Jones who had settled at Baddeck in 1794 received a land grant here, moved here and built Victoria County's first sawmill.
  37. Washabuck Bridge (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Washabuck Centre (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This is said to be a Mi'kmaw word meaning ‘an angle of land formed between a river and a lake,' not ‘a money-laundering centre.'
  39. Washabuck River Nature Reserve (Iona, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Baddeck (Baddeck, 14km) 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.