Mavillette (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2H0)
1. Bear Cove (Metaghan) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The area was settled by Acadians in the late 1700s and the name likely resulted from an experience with a bear.
2. Cape St. Marys Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Cape Cove and later named for the Virgin Mary. Land was granted to Elias Hardy and three others in 1799 and a lighthouse was built in 1868.
3. Mavillette Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Acadians in the late 1700s. The name may derive from the French Mauviette, 'field lark,' or the words 'ma villette,' my little village.
4. St. Alphonse Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place takes its name from the parish church, St. Alphonse, so named for Alphonso Marie dei Ligouri, son of a Neapolitan noble who abandoned a legal career to become a Roman Catholic bishop.
  5. Mavilette Beach Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Maxwellton / Sigogne (Meteghan, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Township which was named for an early settler. The community came into being in the 1880s when the Western Counties Railway (later Dominion Atlantic Railway) came through the area.
7. Meteghan (Meteghan, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Muntoogun is a Mi'kmaw word meaning 'fence,' or 'weir.' Acadians settled here in the 1770s. La Vieille Maison, the old house,' built around 1768 is now a museum. Mitihikan is a Mi'kmawword meaning 'blue rocks or stones.
8. Smugglers Cove Provincial Park (Meteghan, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the 1800s this cove was called Anse-aux-Hirondelles because the high cliffs surrounding it were an ideal nesting place for swallows.
9. St. Benoni (Meteghan, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the biblical Benjamin, whose mother Rachel had called him Benoni. The settlement was an offshoot from the Meteghan colony settled by Acadians in the 1780s.
  10. St. Martin (Meteghan, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Bangor (Meteghan Centre, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was an offshoot of the Meteghan colony, which started in the 1770s. The name likely came from Bangor, ME.
  12. Meteghan Centre (Meteghan Centre, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Meteghan River (Meteghan Centre, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Meteghan Station (Meteghan Centre, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Bartletts Beach (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Beaver River (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginal peoples' called the place Wezek, 'home of the beaver.'
17. Brenton (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
James Walker settled here in 1825. The place is believed to be named for James Brenton, third Attorney-General, 1779-81.
  18. Cedar Lake Nature Reserve (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Darlings Lake (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
On an inspection trip to Yarmouth in 1790, Col. Michael Ashley Darling from Annapolis Garrison, camped here and named the place after himself.
  20. Hillview (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Lake George (Yarmouth) (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began in the late 1700s. Named to commemorate the long and controversial reign of King George III from 1760-1830.
22. Port Maitland (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the adjacent Beaver River Elsetkook, 'flowing along by high rocks’.
  23. Port Maitland Beach Provincial Park (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Richmond (Yarmouth) (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Short Beach (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Woodstock (Port Maitland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. Comeauville (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Clare but later renamed for early settlers, the Comeau family.
28. Concession (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1799 a concession of land was made in the middle of what was then Clare, to Major François Comeau and associates. The community was first referred to as Les Concessions, which over time became shortened to Concession.
  29. Little Brook Station (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Lower Concession (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Lower Saulnierville (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Saulnierville (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Among the first settlers were six Acadian families named Saulnier. Their surname may be traced to 15th- and 16th-century workers on the salterns, or salt works of Saintonge in SW France.
  33. Saulnierville Station (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. St. Joseph (Digby) (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In Digby County 5 km W of the Spectacle Lakes between Concession and Corberrie. Named for the Roman Catholic parish here.
35. Woodvale (Saulnierville, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Brookville for a brook that runs through the community.