D'Escousse (Cape Breton Island, B0E 1K0)
1. D'Escousse Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Fishermen from St. Malo, France, established the place around 1718. In a 1752 census the place is listed as Descoust. Thomas Pichon (1700-81) referred to it as Decoux when he was writing about the place in 1760.
2. Poirierville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Ann Poirier received a Crown grant lease here in 1815. In the early 1900s the place was called Lower D’Escousse.
3. Poulamon Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is of Mi'kmaw origin and means 'tom cod.' Placide Boudrot was the first land grantee in 1861.
4. Rocky Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Peter Pettipas had a Crown lease here in 1806. By 1845 the school had 28 pupils.
  5. Cap La Ronde Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. D'Escousse Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Grand Lake (Cape Breton) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Lac Sec Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Lennox Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Lennox Passage Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Rocky Bay Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Camerons Mountain (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
13. Cannes (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the French seaport and settled about 1795.
  14. Hawker (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. River Bourgeois (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The passage separates Isle Madame from Cape Breton Island. The name recalls Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1735-1806). He was secretary of state in the British cabinet.
16. Seaview (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Sporting Mountain but renamed by provincial statute in 1890. Peter Landris had a land grant here in 1805.
  17. South Side River Bourgeois (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Sporting Mountain (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Thibeauville (River Bourgeois, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Jacob Thibeau settled here in 1836.
20. Alderney Point (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In Richmond County on Isle Madame. Named after an island in the Channel Islands, a corruption of the French ‘Aurigny.
  21. Boudreauville (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Cape Auguet (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Clement Hubert was the first settler in 1820.
  23. Gros Nez (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Haut de la Baie (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Little Anse (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Michael Boudrot settled here in 1806. Anse is French for 'cove.'
26. Petit-de-Grat (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place name is of Basque origin, from the word “degrat,' a stage where fish were landed and the platforms on which they were dried.
27. Sampson(s) Cove (Petit-de-Grat, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for William Sampson, a land grantee here in 1898.
28. Arichat / Isle Madame (Arichat, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Arichat is the shire town of Richmond County and likely owes its present name to missionary Father François Lejamtel. In 1800 he replied to a letter from his bishop, Joseph-Octave Plessis (1763-1825):
29. Lochside (Cape Breton, Pondville) (Arichat, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Pondville (Arichat, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Lawrence Kavanaugh and Andrew LeMarchant had Crown leases here in 1811.
  31. Pondville Beach Provincial Park (Arichat, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Pondville South (Arichat, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Robins (Arichat, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Balmoral (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Scottish residence of Britain's royal family. Settled in the late 1850s.
  35. Basin Road (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Evanston (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
David Cogswell settled here in 1902.
37. Grande Anse (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The descriptive name is French for 'big cove.' Archibald McDonald settled here in 1821.
38. Grandique Ferry (Point) (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'qmaw name was Gebemkek and the present name is French for 'big ditch' or 'big dike.' Settled around 1790 by the Kavanagh family.
39. Lennox Passage (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The passage separates Isle Madame from Cape Breton Island. The name recalls Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1735-1806).
40. Louisdale (Louisdale, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First known as Seal Cove and then Barachois St. Louis St. Louis sandbar.'