Margaree Forks (Cape Breton Island, B0E 2A0)
1. Emerald / Big Brook Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Big Brook Settlement: In Cape Breton County on Big Brook, a tributary of North East Margaree River. Settled in the mid-1800s.
2. Margaree Brook Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
George Hall received a land grant here in 1791.
3. Margaree Forks Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Margaree River which empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence at Margaree Harbour is famous for its scenery and salmon fishery.
4. Rear Dunvegan Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
William Hindle came here from England in 1813.
5. South West Margaree / Coady Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
6. St. Rose Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
It was first called Broad Cove Ponds but the name was changed to St. Rose by statute in 1891. Alexander McNeil who came here from Scotland in 1805 was among the first settlers.
  7. Coady Road Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Fordview Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Margaree 25 Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. South West Margaree Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Fortune Barren (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Lake O'Law (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is from a lake in Scotland. A nearby settlement was called Emerald. Early settlers in 1821 were Harry McDonald, James Fortune and Michael Murphy from Wexford, Ireland.
  13. Lake-O-Law Provincial Park (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Little Barren (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Margaree (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name was Oochaadooch, where the red ochre is.' On 17th-century maps the place is shown as Salmon River.
  16. Margaree Centre (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. North East Margaree / Murphy / North East Egypt / Rossville / South West Egypt (Margaree Centre, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
North East Margaree: James Ross was the first settler here, in 1793. His wife, the former Harriet Lejeune, was the first white woman in the district and became known as Granny Ross.
18. Belle Côte (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called East Side Margaree Harbour, but was given its present name by an Act of Parliament in 1892.
19. Chimney Corner / McLean Cove (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Chimney Corner: The place was settled by Scots in 1811, but had been earlier named by a French admiral for a high pinnacle of rock at the entrance to the cove.
  20. Chimney Corner Nature Reserve (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Margaree Harbour (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Margaree Harbour Beach (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Margaree Harbour Southwest Beach (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Scotch Hill (Inverness) (Margaree Harbour, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Big Barren (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Big Intervale (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The district in which this place was located was referred to as the Scotch Intervale and the settlement was called Big Intervale Margaree.
  27. Egypt Road (Margaree Harbour) (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Forest Glen (Cheticamp) (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. James Barren (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Kingross / Ulva (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Big Intervale on the Scotch Intervale was the name used to designate the area, but Kingross is the name used to refer to the settlement on the E side of the River.
31. Margaree Valley (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Originally named Frizzleton for which no name origin is available.
32. Marsh Brook (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the early 1800s and the first Baptist Church had been built by 1837.
  33. McMillan Brook (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Portree (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Portree on the Isle of Skye, which in turn may be traced to the Gaelic Port Righe for 'royal harbour,' a reference to a 16th-century visit to the Scottish port by King James V.
35. Rivulet (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Early settlers were descendants of Hezekiah Ingraham, a Loyalist from Saybrook, CT, who arrived in Margaree Harbour in 1790.
  36. Sugarloaf Mountain Wilderness Area (Margaree Valley, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. (East) Lake Ainslie / Glenmore (Brook) / Trout River (Scotsville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Maj.-Gen. Ainslie, Lt.-Gov. of Cape Breton Island from 1816-20. Hugh McMillan from Fort William, Scotland, settled in 1806.
38. (West) Lake Ainslie (Scotsville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Lake Ainslie Chapel: Alexander McDonald petitioned for land here in 1821.
39. Gillisdale / Mount Pleasant Brook (Scotsville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for settlers who came from Morar, Scotland, from 1821-25.
40. Keppoch (Mountain) / Morvan (Road) (Scotsville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in 1820 and named Mayfield and later Morven. The descendants of the settlers gradually moved away and today there is no trace of the settlement.