Eastern Passage (Eastern Shore, B3G 1A0)
1. Cow Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for 1763 land grantee Robert Cowie, but more commonly referred to as Silver Sands, a summer resort for people from nearby Dartmouth.
2. Devils Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The island was granted to Capt. John Rous in 1752 and was first called Rous’ Island. Later it was called Wood Island until a fire destroyed all the trees.
3. Eastern Passage Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Europeans began arriving here in the 1700s. The Eastern Passage area was initially granted to ranger Joseph Gorham, but he did not settle here and the land was regranted to Joseph Horne, who soon was followed by German, French, Irish and English settlers
4. McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The island in the mouth of Halifax Harbour was allotted to Capt. Thomas Bloss in 1750 and called Bloss's Island.
5. McNabs Island / Fort McNab National Historic Site of Canada Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In 1711 French surveyor De Labat called the island Ils de Chibouquetou. On 1732 map the island is shown as Scarborough Island. In 1749 it was renamed Cornwallis Island for Gov. Edward Cornwallis.
  6. MacCormacks Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Osborne Head Range Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. South East Passage Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. 12 Wing Shearwater (Shearwater, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Canadian Forces Base Halifax (Shearwater, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Imperoyal (Shearwater, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A suburb on the E side of Halifax Harbour. Early names were Eastern Battery and Fort Clarence. Imperoyal is a contraction of Imperial Oil Co. which has a refinery here.
12. Shearwater (Shearwater, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Shearwater is an unincorporated Nova Scotia suburban community in the Halifax Regional Municipality between Woodside and Eastern Passage occupied by Shearwater heliport.
13. Albro Lake (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This was a suburb of Dalhousie on Albro Lake. Named for Samuel Albro who came here from Portsmouth, RI.
  14. Bel Ayr Park (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Burnside (Dartmouth) (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Burnside is the largest industrial Park in Atlantic Canada and is located in the N end of Dartmouth. The park is named for Scottish settler Duncan Wadell's tiny 19th century estate.
16. Cherry Brook (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Wisdom and Edward King received a land grant here in 1786.
  17. Colby Village (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Cole Harbour (Dartmouth) (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first name was Wonpaak for 'still water', and the present name likely honours an early settler, but on the grant of 3,000 acres to Benjamin Green and others in 1765, the name used was Coal Harbour.
  19. Cole Harbour 30 (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Commodore Park (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Crichton Park (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Dartmouth (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In Halifax County on the E side of Halifax Harbour across from Halifax.
  23. Ellenvale (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Fletcher Lake Lock of the Shubenacadie Canal System (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Forest Hills (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Greenough (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Highland Acres (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Humber Park (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Lake Major (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Naugle (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. North Preston / New Road (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Port Wallace (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Portobello (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is Spanish for 'beautiful door,' or 'beautiful entrance and was on the Shubenacadie Canal route. Settlement started in 1811.
34. Preston (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named after Preston in Lancashire, England. In 1784 the Township of Preston was granted to Theophilus Chamberlain and others, mostly Loyalists and disbanded soldiers.
35. Rainbow Haven (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name originated with a summer camp for underprivileged children incorporated in 1921 by The Halifax Herald. Herald reporter Laura P. Carten was its instigator.
  36. Shannon Park (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Sunset Acres (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Tam O'Shanter Ridge (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Tufts Cove (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Upper Lawrencetown (Dartmouth, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review