Musquodoboit (Eastern Shore, B0J 2L0)
  1. Gaetz Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  2. Martinique Beach Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Musquodoboit Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Brookvale Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Mill Village or Reid School until renamed in 1871 by act of the Legislature. John Lindsay had a 300-acre grant here in 1812.
5. Chaswood Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Halifax native Charles Wood was the first Canadian soldier to be killed in action in the South African War [Boer War) (1899-1901). He was a grandson of Gen. Zachary Taylor who was briefly (1849-50) president of the United States.
6. Cooks Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for its location on the brook and for William Cook, who with five others received a grant of 1,700 acres here in 1786.
7. Elmsvale Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
An earlier name was The Flat. John, Robert and Matthew Archibald petitioned for land here in 1784.
8. Glenmore Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named after a place in Kilkenny, Ireland. James and Jeremiah Murphy and Samuel Nelson received land grants here in 1814.
9. Higginsville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Higgins, Sr., of the 70th Regiment who had fought for the Crown in America from 1778–83, came here after the Revolutionary War.
  10. Lindsay Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Long Lake (Musquodobit) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Markland Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Nova Scotia is said to have been visited or at least sighted by Erik, an Icelander, in 986. He named the place Markland, meaning 'forest-clad land.' This is likely the source of the name of present-day Markland.
13. Middle Musquodoboit Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name Musquodoboit is an Anglicized version of the First Nations peoples' word Mooskuduboogwek, 'suddenly widening out after a narrow entrance at its mouth.'
14. Moose River Gold Mines Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Some lumbermen discovered gold in 1866 but surveying and prospecting didn't take place for eight years, until Damas Lonquoy took up three grants of land around Long Lake in 1874.
15. Moose River Gold Mines Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Moose River Gold Mines Provincial Park is located in one of Nova Scotia’s earliest gold mining regions, east of Tangier
16. Murchyville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first settler, in 1809, was John Higgins. The community's first name was Mill Village. It was later named for the Murchy family.
17. Newcomb Corner(s) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by John Higgins about 1780 and named for Judson Newcomb, who was postmaster in 1868.
  18. Reid Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. South Section Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Wittenburg Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called St. Andrews, supposedly because an early explorer camped here on St. Andrews Day. About 1885 the name Wittenburg was suggested by Rev. E. T. Miller because the church resembled that on which Martin Luther had nailed his thesis.
21. Antrim (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named after the town or County of that name in Ulster, Ireland, and was also known as New Antrim. Land grants began being developed here around 1821.
  22. Dollar Lake Provincial Park (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Elderbank (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First known as Little Musquodoboit and then Little River. In the early 1800s a group of farms was known as the Bruce Settlement because that family was so prominent.
24. Lake Egmont (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named after the Rt. Hon. Earl of Egmont who had land grants at Jeddore in 1768 and Shubenacadie in 1770. The site was part of a grant made to William McKeen in 1814.
  25. Lake Egmont Nature Reserve (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Lower Meaghers Grant / Gibraltar Rock (Lake, Hill) (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Gibraltar Rock: First called Weesik, 'the beaver's home,' and named by early settlers for a high, rocky cliff that reminded them of the famous rock in Spain on the Mediterranean. The first land grant here was in 1793.
27. Meaghers Grant (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Martin Meagher, a Loyalist from NC. He received 5,000 acres here as compensation for the loss of a ship he had loaned the government.
  28. Wyses Corner (Meaghers Grant, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Admiral Rock (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The settlement dates from 1806 and was once noted for shipbuilding and the export of gypsum.
30. East Stewiacke (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Lower Stewiacke and Lower East Stewiacke. Anthony Marshall was one of the first settlers, in 1767.
31. Fort Ellis (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A fort was built here in 1761 and named for Hon. Henry Ellis, Capt.-Gen. and Governor-in-Chief of the province. The fort was abandoned and in ruins by 1767.
32. Lanesville (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The earliest land grant here was made to Benjamin Sibley in 1854. The community was named for an early settler called Lane.
  33. MacKay Siding (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Ramseys (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Riverside (Stewiacke) (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Roseland (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. South Branch (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The river was once called South Branch of the Stewiacke River and it was from this the community took its first name, South Bar of Sydney River.
38. Stewiacke (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 639-2231 - Leave a Public Review
The town took its name from the river, first named Esiktaweak, 'whimpering or whining as it goes along,' and the name for both gradually became corrupted to its present form.
39. West St. Andrews (Stewiacke, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Milltown. St. Andrews was the old name for Wittenburg and Milltown and eventually became known as West St. Andrews, retaining that name when St. Andrews became Wittenburg.
40. Caribou Mines (Upper Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Gold mining began here in 1867 and there were two stamp mills, but production of gold declined after 1903. The place was first called Caribou Gold Mines because of the mines and the plentiful caribou.