Middle Sackville (Halifax Metro, B4E 3A0)
1. Maroon Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Maroons, deported from Jamaica by the British government, were brought to Nova Scotia in 1796. Most left for Sierra Leone by 1800. Some took up residence here, giving the place its name. Patrick West received a land grant here in 1763.
2. Pockwock Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Pogwek or Pokwek, 'the smoky or 'dry lake.
3. Springfield Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Springfield Lake is a small lake located in Middle Sackville, Halifax Regional Municipality
4. Upper Sackville / Groves / Sackville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Groves: Named for a grove of trees adjacent to the railway siding. Land grants were made here in 1905 and in 1885 a schoolhouse was built at nearby Brushy Hill.
  5. Lewis Lake (Lower Sackville) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Middle Sackville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Old Annapolis Road Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Pockwock Wilderness Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. Beaver Bank (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The area was settled in the early 1800s and took its name from a beaver dam. The area was settled in the very early 1800s.
10. Kinsac (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Pleasant and John H. Fleiger both had land grants here by 1810.
11. Lakeview (Lower Sackville) (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1891 lots were sold in the 'proposed new town of Lakeview.' Theo Larsen had a shanty on his part of the town site and was clearing land.
12. Lower Sackville (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This place and the nearby communities of Middle Sackville and Upper Sackville are locally called 'The Sackvilles' and are chiefly bedroom communities for folks who work in Halifax-Dartmouth.
13. Lucasville (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for an early settler and first called Lucas Settlement. John George Pyke and Richard Wenman had land grants here in 1764.
  14. North Beaver Bank (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Old Cobequid Road (Lower Sackville, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Bedford (Bedford, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
From 1749-1856 the place was known as Sackville for Fort Sackville built in 1749 to keep open the overland trail between Halifax and the Annapolis and to protect Halifax Mi'kmaw raids.
  17. Bedford Range (Bedford, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Fernleigh (Bedford, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Glen Moir (Bedford, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Harmony Park (Bedford, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Killarney (Bedford, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Fall River (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by land grantees in the late 1700s and named for the falls in a stream between Miller and Thomas Lakes. In 1776 Henry Hilliard and others were granted 1,700 acres of land on what was then called the Shubenacadie Lakes.
  23. Fall River West (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Fletchers Lake (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Laurie Provincial Park (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Lochview Road (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Old Holland Road (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Rawdon River Nature Reserve (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Wellington (Sackville) (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Fletcher's Bridge for the Fletcher family. The name Wellington was bestowed by Lt.-Gen. John W. Laurie (1835-1912), who owned a large estate here called Oakfield.
30. Wellington Station / Cookumijenawanak (Fall River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name given by the Mi'kmaq to a rock in the outlet of Grand Lake into the Shubenacadie River. The word translates as 'Grandmother's Place.' The Mi'kmaq believed the rock had been placed there for their convenience for fishing.
31. Armdale (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Dutch Village after German settlers moved here in 1750. In 1860 Sir Charles Tupper named his estate on North West Arm, Halifax City, Armdale.
  32. Atlantic Ocean Air Weapons Range (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Beechwood Park (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Birch Cove (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name was likely given to one of the estates of William Donaldson. In 1775 a grant was given here to Elspeth and Charles Monk.
35. Boulderwood (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A suburb on the W side of North West Arm of Halifax Harbour at the E end of Lake William.
36. Bridgeview / French Landing (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
French Landing: This is believed to have been the landing place and encampment of the men who were with the ill-fated, disease-stricken Duc D'Anville's fleet that arrived at Halifax in 1746.
  37. Clayton Park (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Convoy Place / Africville (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
For almost two centuries Africville was a part of Halifax, home to many of the city's Black people and first known as Campbell Road for the street leading there.
  39. Cowie Hill (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Fairmount (Halifax, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review