Hantsport (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0P 1P0)
1. Avonport Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
At one time it was included in Lower Horton and named Horton Point until 1864 when the name changed to its present form. James Fillis from Halifax was one of the first settlers.
2. Bishopville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Halfway River. In 1760 John Bishop and his four sons left CT and settled in this area.
3. Hantsport Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First known as Kakagwek for the place of dried meat.' Kag-agwek found elsewhere can mean ‘place of dried fish.
4. Lockhartville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mi'kmaq called the place Maktomkus, 'the black reef.' The first land grant was made in 1759 when the place was called Horton Bluff. In 1848 the name was changed to its present form to honour early settlers.
5. Mount Denson Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Col. Henry 'Denny' Denson (1715-80) received a land grant here in 1761 and about 1772 built a mansion he called Mount Denson.
  6. Avonport Station Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Glooscap 35 Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Hants Border Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. West Brooklyn Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Kempt Shore (Summerville, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Sir James Kempt (1764-1854), Lt.-Gov. of the province from 1820-28. When Kempt Township was established in 1824 this was part of the area known as Shore District. William Hutchinson received this land in 1783 as part of a 2,000-acre grant.
  11. Benjamins Mill (Falmouth, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Falmouth (Falmouth, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This area began to develop around 1685 when new generations of Acadians began migrating to areas where they could reclaim land from the sea.
  13. Shaws Bog (Falmouth, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Upper Falmouth (Falmouth, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Centre Burlington (Centre Burlington, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began later in the latter 1700s. The name, given in 1867, is a corruption of Bridlington, a town in Yorkshire, England.
16. Cogmagun (River) (Centre Burlington, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is an English version of the Mi'kmaw word Kogumegunuk or Kookemagun, for ‘crooked river.'
  17. Lower Burlington (Centre Burlington, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Petite Bog Nature Reserve (Centre Burlington, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Riverside (Windsor) (Centre Burlington, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Upper Burlington (Centre Burlington, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Armstrong Lake (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Card Lake Provincial Park (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Currys Corner (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This was an offshoot from the Windsor settlement which began soon after 1760.
  24. Falls Lake Provincial Park (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Five Mile Plains (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
It was so named because the land is flat and the settlement was five miles (8 km) from Windsor on the Halifax Road.
  26. Garlands Crossing (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Leminster (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Lower Vaughan (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Martock (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named by Hon. John Butler whose native home was Martock, Somersetshire, England. This was the site of an Acadian village named Le Breau.
  30. Mill Section (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Sherwood (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Capt. John Evans came here in 1816 and built Sherwood Lodge after Sherwood in his native England. Disbanded soldiers moved in but within a decade the place was almost abandoned.
  32. Smiths Corner (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Three Mile Plains (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Upper Vaughan (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Vaughan (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began around 1856. The community was first called Valley Mines. Vaughan [1-6] In Hants County on the E side of Falls Lake on Hwy. 14 at the junction with the Vaughn-New Russell Road, 21 km SSW of Windsor.
36. Wentworth (Creek) (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1759 Col. Winckworth Tonge and Henry and George Scott received a 2,500-acre grant at Five Houses and a month later Winckworth, William and George Tonge received a 1,500-acre grant.
37. Wile Settlement (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Charles and Israel Wile moved here in 1858.
38. Windsor (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 798-8391 FAX: (902) 798-8553 - Leave a Public Review
There is evidence of French Acadian settlement here as early as 1684 and that they retained the Mi'kmaw name, Pisiquid, 'the place where the tidal flow forks.'
39. Windsor Forks (Windsor, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because the Avon River forks into two branches here.
40. Bramber (Cheverie, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Originally a part of Vil Cheverie, named in the early 1700s for a Basque family named d'Etcheverry or d'Chevery.