Eskasoni (Cape Breton Island, B1W 1A0)
1. Benacadie Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The three communities sharing this name are Benacadie, Benacadie Pond and Benacadie West. The name came from the Mi'kmaw Benakade, 'the humble place.' Settlement began around 1805 by Scots and Irish immigrants.
2. Castle Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First named Amaquadees from the Aboriginal name Amokatik. Later named Castle Bay because the nearly enclosed Amaquadeez Pond reminded the Scottish settlers of castles surrounded by moats. Neil McDonald from Scotland settled here in 1818.
3. Eskasoni Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
This was a Mi'kmaw settlement long before the arrival of Europeans and was then called Eskasoognig, translated as meaning green boughs.
4. Eskasoni 3A / Islandview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
5. Islandview / Steeles Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  6. Benacadie Pond Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Benacadie West Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Eskasoni 3 Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. Beaver Cove (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Although beaver were undoubtedly plentiful here, an Irish settler in the early 1800s named Beaver and the place was likely named after him.
10. Big Beach (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Natives called the place Amamkeak, 'long sandy beach.' John and Donald McNeil and John McPhie were settled here by 1812.
11. Big Brook (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the early 1800s by Scots from PEI.
12. Boisdale (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Migcheehwegatik. In 1823 the first settlers named the place after their home place on Loch Boisdale, South Uist, Scotland.
13. Christmas Island (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq first called the place Abadakwitchech meaning ‘small reserved portion. Opposite the community named Christmas Island is a small island bearing the same name.
14. Cross Point (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for its location. Scotsman John McKinnon and his son John settled here in 1826.
15. Glasgow (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for the Scottish city. Hector and Hugh McSwayne were settled here by 1817. A post office was established in 1892.
16. Pipers Cove (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Norman MacNeil, official piper to the chief of Clan MacNeil, who emigrated from Barra, Scotland to Pictou in 1802 and the following year moved here. The place name attests to his prowess with the pipes.
  17. Rear Christmas Island (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Shenacadie (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Shenacadie Beach (Christmas Island, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Barra Glen (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Cains (Mountain) (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Murdock Matheson had the first land grant here in 1846.
  22. Cains Mountain Wilderness Area (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Estmere (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
'Mere' is a Scottish word for pond, pool or lakelet, and sometimes the sea, and 'est' is French for E. This place name was given by Act of Parliament in 1887.
  24. Gillis Point (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Gillis Point East / McNeils Vale (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Grand Narrows (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
he Mi'kmaw name for the place was Taawitk, place where the water flows out.' Hector McNeil was one of the first Barra Scots to settle here about 1804.
27. Grass Cove (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hector and John McNeil received land grants here in 1835.
28. Highland Hill (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Land grantees in 1835 were Donald, Malcolm and Roderick McNeil.
29. Iona (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
On the W side of the Grand Narrows of Barra Strait of Bras d'Or Lake and once part of what was known as Grand Narrows Settlement on Hwy. 233.
  30. Iona Beach (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Iona Rear (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald, Malcolm and Roderick McNeil had land grants here by 1835.
32. Jamesville (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Nackady. A statute of the province renamed the place in 1883 for early settlers.
  33. Jamesville West (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Lower Washabuck (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in 1877 by John McNeil, Matthew King and Peter S. McLean.
  35. MacNeils Vale (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Malagawatch 4 (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. McKinnons Harbour (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Amasiboogwek, ‘a grand river.' Roderick and Allan McKinnon, who reached Pictou in 1802, applied for land in 1809. In 1817 John McKinnon from Barra, Scotland, settled here.
38. Ottawa Brook (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John and Peter NcDonald and Hector McLean had grants here in 1910.
39. Plaster (Cove) (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hector McNeil was the first settler in 1872.
40. Red Point (Iona, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Alexander McDougald had settled here by 1859.