Rural Routes Nova Scotia - Meteghan Centre

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Meteghan Centre (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2K0)

	1. Bangor 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.
	2. Meteghan Centre Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	3. Meteghan River Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	4. Meteghan Station Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	5. Maxwellton / Sigogne (Meteghan, 2km) 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.
	6. Meteghan (Meteghan, 2km) 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.
	7. Smugglers Cove Provincial Park (Meteghan, 2km) 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.
	8. St. Benoni (Meteghan, 2km) 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.
	9. St. Martin (Meteghan, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	10. Comeauville (Saulnierville, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The place was first called Clare but later renamed for early settlers, the Comeau family.
	11. Concession (Saulnierville, 7km) 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.
	12. Little Brook Station (Saulnierville, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	13. Lower Concession (Saulnierville, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	14. Lower Saulnierville (Saulnierville, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	15. Saulnierville (Saulnierville, 7km) 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.
	16. Saulnierville Station (Saulnierville, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	17. St. Joseph (Digby) (Saulnierville, 7km) 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.
	18. Woodvale (Saulnierville, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review First called Brookville for a brook that runs through the community.
	19. Bear Cove (Metaghan) (Mavillette, 11km) 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.
	20. Cape St. Marys (Mavillette, 11km) 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.
	21. Mavilette Beach Provincial Park (Mavillette, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	22. Mavillette (Mavillette, 11km) 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.
	23. St. Alphonse (Mavillette, 11km) 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.
	24. Church Point (Church Point, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review Founded in 1771 and named Pointe de l'Église for St. Marys Church, the largest wooden church in North America. Church Point is home of the Université Sainte-Anne, the patron saint of Acadians.
	25. Church Point Beach (Church Point, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	26. Church Point Station (Church Point, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	27. Grosses Coques (Church Point, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review Settled by Acadians who returned here after their expulsion in 1755. The area was well known for large clams, or quahogs, found on the tidal flats. Grosses is French for ‘large’ and Coque is French for ‘shell.'
	28. Little Brook (Church Point, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review The name is descriptive because a small stream flows through the settlement. Acadians settled here in 1770.
	29. Margo (Church Point, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	30. Freeport (Freeport, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
	31. Gilberts Landing (Freeport, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review