Middle West Pubnico (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2M0)
1. West Pubnico Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
West Pubnico is one of the top fishing ports in Nova Scotia by value of landings, and is home to 15 fish processing companies.
  2. Middle West Pubnico Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Argyle Sound (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Black Georges Savannah (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Central Argyle (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. East Pubnico (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Great Barren & Quinan Lakes Nature Reserve (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Great Pubnico Lake (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Lower Argyle (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Pubnico (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
There are about 15 communities in this area that include the word Pubnico in their name.
  11. Spinneys Heath Nature Reserve (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Upper West Pubnico (Pubnico, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Centre East Pubnico (Lower East Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Charlesville (Lower East Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by land grantees in the late 1700s and early 1800s and called Pubnico Beach until 1865 when the name changed to honour Rev. Charles Oram, a popular minister.
  15. Lower East Pubnico (Lower East Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Middle East Pubnico (Lower East Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. The Brothers Islands Wildlife Management Area (Lower East Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Upper Woods Harbour (Lower East Pubnico, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Atwoods Brook (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named in 1776 for New England Planter Joseph Atwood from Cape Cod, MA.
20. Bear Point (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Land grants were issued here in 1767. The name is believed to have originally been Bare Point for a lack of vegetation at the time. There is no record of any incident involving a bear. One of the first lobster factories on the coast was established here.
  21. East Side (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Lower Shag Harbour / Bon Portage (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Bon Portage: A small Island off Shag Harbour made famous by Evelyn Richardson's novels. She won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction for her novel We Keep A Light. The name is French for 'good carrying place.'
23. Seal Island (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A cluster of five small Islands due W of Cape Sable Island, named Îles aux Loups Martins, 'seal islands' by Samuel de Champlain in 1604.
24. Shag Harbour (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Shag was an early French word for 'cormorant.' Samuel de Champlain's map of 1614 shows a trading post near Cape Sable at the mouth of Shag Harbour Brook called Vieux Logis, old house.
  25. West Side (Shag Harbour, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Deep Cove Island / Murder Island / Outer Bald Tusket Island (Lower Wedgeport, 16km) 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.
  27. Harris Island (Lower Wedgeport, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Lower Wedgeport (Lower Wedgeport, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Comeaus Hill (Wedgeport, 17km) 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.
30. Little River Harbour (Wedgeport, 17km) 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.
31. Pinkneys Point (Wedgeport, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Ulsebooki, 'little harbour.' John Pinkney was living here in 1777.
  32. Sluice Point (Wedgeport, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Tusket Islands Wilderness Area (Wedgeport, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Upper Wedgeport (Wedgeport, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Wedgeport (Wedgeport, 17km) 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.