Lower East Pubnico (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2A0)
1. Charlesville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled by land grantees in the late 1700s and early 1800s and called Pubnico Beach until 1865 when the name changed to honour Rev. Charles Oram, a popular minister.
  2. Centre East Pubnico Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Lower East Pubnico Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Middle East Pubnico Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. The Brothers Islands Wildlife Management Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Upper Woods Harbour Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Middle West Pubnico (Middle West Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. West Pubnico (Middle West Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
West Pubnico is one of the top fishing ports in Nova Scotia by value of landings, and is home to 15 fish processing companies.
  9. Argyle Sound (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Black Georges Savannah (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Central Argyle (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. East Pubnico (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Great Barren & Quinan Lakes Nature Reserve (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Great Pubnico Lake (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Lower Argyle (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Pubnico (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
There are about 15 communities in this area that include the word Pubnico in their name.
  17. Spinneys Heath Nature Reserve (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Upper West Pubnico (Pubnico, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Atwoods Brook (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named in 1776 for New England Planter Joseph Atwood from Cape Cod, MA.
20. Bear Point (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Land grants were issued here in 1767. The name is believed to have originally been Bare Point for a lack of vegetation at the time. There is no record of any incident involving a bear. One of the first lobster factories on the coast was established here.
  21. East Side (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Lower Shag Harbour / Bon Portage (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Bon Portage: A small Island off Shag Harbour made famous by Evelyn Richardson's novels. She won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction for her novel We Keep A Light. The name is French for 'good carrying place.'
23. Seal Island (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A cluster of five small Islands due W of Cape Sable Island, named Îles aux Loups Martins, 'seal islands' by Samuel de Champlain in 1604.
24. Shag Harbour (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Shag was an early French word for 'cormorant.' Samuel de Champlain's map of 1614 shows a trading post near Cape Sable at the mouth of Shag Harbour Brook called Vieux Logis, old house.
  25. West Side (Shag Harbour, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Barrington Passage / Northeast Point (Barrington Passage, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name for the place was Ministegek, 'he has gone for it,' and the French called the place Le Passage because of the Channel between Cape Sable Island and the mainland.
27. Crowell (Barrington Passage, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1768 Simon and Judah Crowell and Elisha Hopkins laid out their land grant here. When their descendants grew numerous, the N part was called Hopkinstown and the S section was Crowelltown.
28. Doctors Cove (Barrington Passage, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The site was included in the Barrington Bay area first known as Menstugek. The French called the passage La Passage, 'The Passage.''
  29. North East Point (Barrington Passage, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Sherose Island (Barrington Passage, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Archelaus Smith and Thomas Crowell, Jr., settled on what was then called Shoroes Island in 1761. The island was later named for an early settler.
31. Baccaro (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Pointe de Bacareau is prominently featured on a 1684 map of this part of the coastline. The name is likely of Basque origin and is one of the many names for codfish.
32. Barrington (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 637-2015 FAX: (902) 637-2075 - Leave a Public Review
The French called the place Le Passage and the Mi'kmaq called it Ministiguish or Ministegek. For a time it was Barrington Head because of its position at the head of Barrington Bay.
  33. Barrington Head (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Barrington West (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Brass Hill (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A black man named Brass lived atop the hill in the 1760s.
36. Coffinscroft (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The native name Menstuges covered this area. The Mi'kmaq name for the beach was Exsaddy weektook and the first English name was The Hill for those formed by winds blowing sand up from the beach.
  37. East Baccaro (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Goose Lake (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
39. Oak Park (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began here in 1810. Early settlers called the place Prevost Village to honour Sir George Prevost (1767-1816), Lt.-Gov. of Nova Scotia from 1808–11.
40. Port La Tour (Barrington, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour (1593-1666) was an adventurer, trader and colonizer who came to Acadia while in his teens.