Clare (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 1M0)
1. Comeauville (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Clare but later renamed for early settlers, the Comeau family.
2. Concession (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1799 a concession of land was made in the middle of what was then Clare, to Major François Comeau and associates. The community was first referred to as Les Concessions, which over time became shortened to Concession.
  3. Little Brook Station (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Lower Concession (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Lower Saulnierville (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Saulnierville (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Among the first settlers were six Acadian families named Saulnier. Their surname may be traced to 15th- and 16th-century workers on the salterns, or salt works of Saintonge in SW France.
  7. Saulnierville Station (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. St. Joseph (Digby) (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In Digby County 5 km W of the Spectacle Lakes between Concession and Corberrie. Named for the Roman Catholic parish here.
9. Woodvale (Saulnierville, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Brookville for a brook that runs through the community.
10. Bangor (Meteghan Centre, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was an offshoot of the Meteghan colony, which started in the 1770s. The name likely came from Bangor, ME.
  11. Meteghan Centre (Meteghan Centre, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Meteghan River (Meteghan Centre, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Meteghan Station (Meteghan Centre, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Alder Plains (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Barrio Lake (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Brazil Lake (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1870 the place was called Bloomfield, but it later took the name of the lake because of confusion with the Bloomfield in Digby County.
  17. Briar Lake (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Carleton (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first settler was Daniel Raymond in 1833. Mi'kmaq called the place Nesogwakade, place of eels.' Settlers first called the place Nine Partners Falls because nine of them formed a partnership to operate a mill.
19. Corberrie (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Abbé Jean-Mandé Sigogne (1763-1844) served the Acadians of this area for 45 years between 1799 and 1844.
  20. East Kemptville (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Flintstone Rock (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Forest Glen (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Gardners Mills (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Ireton (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Kemptville (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mi'kmaq called the place Nekataouksit, 'great forked tidal river.' A forest fire swept through the area in 1820 just as settlement was starting and Lt.-Gov. Kempt sent aid.
  26. Lake Annis (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. McCoys Ridge (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
28. Moodys Corner / Brier Lake (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Brier Lake: Named for the indigenous briar plant. Charles and Samuel Leiboo were early settlers.
  29. North Kemptville (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Oakland Lake (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Richfield (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Silver River Wilderness Area (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Sloans Lake Nature Reserve (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Tobeatic Wilderness Area (Lake) (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Tobeatic Wilderness Area:
  35. Tobeatic Wildlife Management Area (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Toms Savannah (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Wentworth Lake Nature Reserve (Forest Glen, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Maxwellton / Sigogne (Meteghan, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Township which was named for an early settler. The community came into being in the 1880s when the Western Counties Railway (later Dominion Atlantic Railway) came through the area.
39. Meteghan (Meteghan, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Muntoogun is a Mi'kmaw word meaning 'fence,' or 'weir.' Acadians settled here in the 1770s. La Vieille Maison, the old house,' built around 1768 is now a museum. Mitihikan is a Mi'kmawword meaning 'blue rocks or stones.
40. Smugglers Cove Provincial Park (Meteghan, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the 1800s this cove was called Anse-aux-Hirondelles because the high cliffs surrounding it were an ideal nesting place for swallows.