Donkin (Cape Breton Island, B1A 1A0)
1. Donkin Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Dominion Coal Company opened Dominion Number 6 here in 1904 and a community formed around it, initially known as Dominion Number 6.
2. Port Caledonia Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The earliest land grant at Port Caledonia was in 1835 to Peter Hall Clarke. Operations at Clyde Colliery, between Glace Bay and Schooner Pond, were begun in 1863. The mine operated until the 1890s.
  3. Big Glace Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Long Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Schooner Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Schooner Pond Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Birch Grove (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first recorded residents were here in 1865 after explorations for coal had started. From 1912-30, Dominion # 21 and # 22 collieries were operating. When they closed, many miners went to work at mines in Glace Bay. The name is descriptive.
  8. Black Brook, Glace Bay (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. Broughton (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A small seam of coal was found here in the early 1900s which led to what historian William B. Hamilton describes as 'one of the most spectacular fiascos in the history of Nova Scotia.'
10. Homeville / False Bay Beach (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Morien (Cape) (Port) (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Cape Morien: First named Mooloktooch or Noolektooch, ‘place jammed with ice.' The cape was named Morien first and the name is thought to be a corruption of the Portuguese for St. Martin.
  12. Morien Junction (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Morrison Road (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Port Morien (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw names for this place were Mooloktooch and Noolektooch, ‘place jammed with ice' and 'bivouacking place.
  15. Port Morien Beach (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Port Morien French Mine Site (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Round Island (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name notes a prominent local feature and was given prior to 1874. The first land grantee, Samuel Brookman, came here in 1865.
  18. Sand Lake (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. South Head (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. South Port Morien (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Waddens Cove (Port Morien, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Benjamin Wadden and his family moved here from Newfoundland in 1804 and settled on the E side of False Bay Lake before he received a grant at what was then called Ben's Point.
22. Glace Bay (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Wasokusegwom for ‘shining, home of glory.' Glace (French for ice) Bay first appears on a census in 1752, describing the bay formed by Table Head and Cape Percé.
  23. Glace Bay Beach (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Hub (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Marconi Towers (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. McKays Corner (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Morien Hill (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. New Aberdeen (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Sterling (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Table Head (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Tower Road (Glace Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Belgiumtown (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Centreville Reserve Mines (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. East Slope (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. McLeods Crossing (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Passchendaele (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Reserve Mines (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name originated when the General Mining Association then working in this area held the operation of this mine back for future use.
  38. Reserve Rows (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Steeles Hill (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Tomkinsville (Reserve Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review