Elmsdale (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B2S 1K0)
1. Elmsdale Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The area was settled before 1818 by John Archibald who called his farm Elmsdale Farm for the abundance of elm trees.
2. Nine Mile River Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the Lake Nenadoogweboogwek, 'the trail route. In 1797 there was a settlement here of about 30 Highland Scots veterans. The lake used to be nine miles long. Now it is 14.4 km long.
  3. Belnan Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Nine Mile Woods Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5. Barneys Brook / Lantz (Lantz, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Dutch Settlement (Lantz, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
William Keys settled near here on the Shubenacadie River about 1786 and the place was first known as Key's. The present name was given because of the number of German (Deutsch) people who subsequently settled.
  7. East Milford (Lantz, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Grono Road (Lantz, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. Lantz (Lantz, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first land grant was in 1785. In 1898 Harvey and Croft Lantz started a brick and tile plant and the community that grew up around it was named for them.
  10. Bennery Lake Nature Reserve (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Clattenburgh Brook Wilderness Area (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Devon (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mary Heffernan was the first land grantee in 1810.
13. Enfield (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1683 a town in CT was named Enfield for the borough in London, England. 180 years later in 1863, Thomas B. Donaldson of Enfield in the Connecticut River Valley suggested that this community be called Enfield.
  14. Frenchmans Road (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Goffs (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A former stopping place for stages bound for Guysborough. Settled in 1821 by Sebastian Richard and Theopoles Chamberlain in 1821, but named for 1846 land grantee William Goff.
16. Grand Lake (Enfield) (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place takes its name from the lake, the largest in the chain between Dartmouth and Shubenacadie. The Mi'kmaw name was Tulugadik for camping ground,' or 'the settlement.'
17. Horne Settlement (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was settled by Daniel and William Duffee in 1812 and named for the Horne family which settled in 1829.
  18. Montavista (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Oakfield (Enfield) (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The community took its name from Oakfield, a model estate established in 1865 by Col. John Winburn Laurie (1835-1912).
  20. Oakfield Provincial Park (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Oldham (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named by early settler Joseph Howe for his ancestors' birthplace in England. Edward Horne and Samuel Isnor found gold here in 1861 and by 1863, eight crushing mills had been built. Oldham now is chiefly a bedroom community of Halifax.
22. Renfrew (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Believed to have been named after Renfrew town and county in Scotland. Settlement started around 1833 with Isaac Whitar.
  23. Shubenacadie 13 (Enfield, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Coldstream (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Campbell family were the first settlers in the late 1700s. Rev. Robert Blackwood, the Presbyterian minister at nearby Gays River, named the place after Coldstream in Berwick-shire, Scotland.
25. Gays River (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq called the place Wisunawon, for 'beaver.' Believed named for a traveller named Gay who camped on the riverbank on his way from Halifax to Pictou. Settlement began in 1780.
  26. Indian Brook 14 (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. MacPhees Corner / Micmac (Shubenacadie) (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald, Evan and James McPhee received a 700-acre grant here in 1822.
  28. Micmac (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Mill Village (Shubenacadie) (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named for a mill built on Ryans Creek in the 1800s. William Wallace had settled by 1815.
30. North Salem (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Grants were made to John Dewel, William Delaney and Thomas Knowles in 1815.
31. Shubenacadie / Miller (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Segubunakade, where the ground nuts (potatoes) grow.' One of the earliest land grants here was to James and Gustavus Ducarete in 1763. Shubenacadie Wildlife Park here has been open to the public since 1954.
  32. Shubenacadie East (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Shubenacadie Wildlife Management Area (Shubenacadie, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Fall River (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by land grantees in the late 1700s and named for the falls in a stream between Miller and Thomas Lakes. In 1776 Henry Hilliard and others were granted 1,700 acres of land on what was then called the Shubenacadie Lakes.
  35. Fall River West (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Fletchers Lake (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Laurie Provincial Park (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Lochview Road (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Old Holland Road (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Rawdon River Nature Reserve (Fall River, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review