Musquodoboit Harbour (Eastern Shore, B0J 2L0)
1. Bayers Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for George Bayer, son of baker George Bayer of Halifax who settled here around 1771.
2. Musquodoboit Harbour / Petpeswick Harbour Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name traces from Mooskudo-boogwek, 'suddenly widening out after a narrow entrance at its mouth,' and the current name is an anglicized version of the original name.
3. Smith Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Thomas Crow had a 500-acre grant here in 1814. He had come from Louisburg to be the first British settler at Musquodoboit Harbour about 1778.
4. West Petpeswick / Greenough Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Greenough Settlement: In Halifax County on the W side of Petpeswick Inlet 32 km E of Dartmouth. Francis Elliot received a 1,000-acre grant here in 1767, but the place is named for the Greenough family of the mid-1850s.
  5. East Petpeswick Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Musquodoboit Valley Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. White Lake Wilderness Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Beech Hill (Lake Charlotte) (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Clam Bay (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Clam Harbour (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq called the place Aasegadich, “clam gathering place. It was originally called Clam Cove until the harbour was dredged out. Robert Campbell Jr. received a grant of 2,000 acres here in 1765.
  11. Clam Harbour Beach Provincial Park (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Cowan Brook Nature Reserve (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. East Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Hartlin Settlement (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Head of Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Head of Jeddore is a rural community of the Halifax Regional Municipality on Trunk 7 on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia 47.06 kilometers from Downtown Halifax.
16. Lake Charlotte (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Lakeville but the name was changed to Ship Harbour Lake to avoid confusion with Upper Lakeville.
17. Little Harbour (Sheet Harbour) (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aborignal name was Segunakigumik ‘sails torn to shreds.' Land here was granted in 1839 to Walter H. Stoddart.
  18. Lower West Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Myers Point (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Ostrea Lake (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled about 1780 and first called William Settlement. That name was changed around 1881 to Ostrea from Ostreidae, the root word for ‘oyster,' found here in abundance.
21. Oyster Pond (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1672 the harbour from which a number of Jeddore places took their name was known as Rivière Théodore, a harbour with a good entrance for ships.
22. Pleasant Point (Lawrencetown) (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First known as Kent's Island for land grantee William Kent. There was a post office by 1870.
23. Salmon River Bridge (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
It was so named because it is at a bridge over an arm of Jeddore Harbour known as the Salmon River or Head of Jeddore, a route taken by salmon migrating upstream to spawn.
24. Ship Harbour (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This place, which was settled in 1783 by a group of SC Loyalists, took its name from the harbour. An early name was Knowles Harbour. The harbour's name is from a cliff called 'Ship Rock' at its entrance.
  25. Ship Harbour Long Lake Wilderness Area (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Southwest Cove (Musquodoboit Harbour) (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Upper Lakeville (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
28. West Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Winaboogwech, 'swearing place,' or Wineboogwechk, 'crooked, ugly, flowing river.'
29. Antrim (Meaghers Grant, 18km) 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.
  30. Dollar Lake Provincial Park (Meaghers Grant, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Elderbank (Meaghers Grant, 18km) 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.
32. Lake Egmont (Meaghers Grant, 18km) 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.
  33. Lake Egmont Nature Reserve (Meaghers Grant, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Lower Meaghers Grant / Gibraltar Rock (Lake, Hill) (Meaghers Grant, 18km) 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.
35. Meaghers Grant (Meaghers Grant, 18km) 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.
  36. Wyses Corner (Meaghers Grant, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Chezzetcook Air Weapons Range (Porters Lake, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Cole Harbour Lawrencetown Coastal Heritage Park System (Porters Lake, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Conrod Island Provincial Park (Porters Lake, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Conrod Settlement (Porters Lake, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for George Conrod who had a grant here around 1818.