Rural Routes Nova Scotia - Lower Wedgeport

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Lower Wedgeport (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2B0)

	1. Deep Cove Island / Murder Island / Outer Bald Tusket Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review Outer Bald Tusket Island: THE PRINCIPALITY OF OUTER BALDONIA In 1949, Russell M. Arundel of Long Island, NY, bought Outer Bald Tusket Island for $750. He renamed it Outer Baldonia and declared it an independent principality of sport fishermen.
	2. Harris Island Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	3. Lower Wedgeport Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	4. Comeaus Hill (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review Mi'kmaq called this place Mkadom, 'haunt of the black-backed gull. The settlement was named for a family of Acadians who resettled here after their expulsion.
	5. Little River Harbour (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review Settled in 1767 by Acadians named Comeau. First called Little River. The name comes from the Little River which flows into the harbour.
	6. Pinkneys Point (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review First called Ulsebooki, 'little harbour.' John Pinkney was living here in 1777.
	7. Sluice Point (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	8. Tusket Islands Wilderness Area (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	9. Upper Wedgeport (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	10. Wedgeport (Wedgeport, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Aboriginal name was Chebec, 'the narrows. The first English name was The Wedge or Tusket Wedge, which changed to Wedge Port and eventually, Wedgeport.
	11. (Lower) Eel Brook (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Mi'kmaw name was Wipkomagakum, ‘place of poor and lean eels.'
	12. Abrams River (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	13. Amiraults Hill (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review This community in the Municipality of Argyle recalls the resilience of the Acadians, who returned in droves to Nova Scotia following their expulsion in 1755.
	14. Argyle (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	15. Argyle Head (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	16. Bell Neck (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	17. Belleville (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review In the 1780s the area was part of the Upper Abuptic Settlement. In the 1880s it was part of the Eel Brook settlement.
	18. Belleville North (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	19. Belleville South (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	20. Canaan (Tusket) (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review In the early 1800s Greggs Farish received a grant at the ‘Valley of Canaan.'
	21. East Canaan (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	22. East Quinan (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	23. Gavelton (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review Likely named for John Gavel, one of a number of Loyalists who applied for land grants in 1784 and received them in the Tusket Lakes region.
	24. Glenwood (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review In 1776 Lt. Ranald McKinnon received a land grant here which also included adjacent Roberts Island. The place was first known as Argyle Head which later became the name of a community 3 km N. In 1873 the place was given the descriptive name Glenwood.
	25. Glenwood Provincial Park (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	26. Hubbards Point (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	27. Lower Eel Brook (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	28. Morris Island (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Aboriginal people called the River Neketaouksit, great forked tidal river.' The present name is from John Morris, who received a grant of the island in 1773.
	29. Pleasant Lake (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	30. Pleasant Valley (Yarmouth) (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Aboriginal people called the place Welskoodaguk, picturesque valley.' Settled by people from Yarmouth and Tusket in the 1830s.
	31. Plymouth (Yarmouth) (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Aboriginal people called the river Neketaouksit, 'the great tidal river.' The present name is believed to gave been given by Loyalist settlers from Shelburne who came here in 1785.
	32. Quinan (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Mi'kmaq called the place Nictahk, 'forks of a river, and for a time it was called Tusket Forks. In 1885 the name was changed to honour the career of Rev. John L. Quinan, who served the local parish from 1860-68.
	33. Raynardton / Reynardtown (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review Named for Job Reynard, who received a grant on the Tusket River in 1828.
	34. Roberts Island (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review For a time this island was derisively called Non Present, Non Prison or NonParison Island. During the 1755 deportation of Acadians, Major Jedidiah Prebble put a number of Acadians ashore here for safekeeping until he could return to take them to Boston.
	35. Rocco Point (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	36. South Quinan (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	37. Spar Lake (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	38. Springhaven (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	39. Ste. Anne du Ruisseau (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The Aboriginal people called the place Wipkoogmajokun, place for eels' and the community's first name, Eel Brook, is a rough translation.
	40. Summerville (Yarmouth) (Tusket, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review