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1. Bayers Settlement
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Named for George Bayer, son of baker George Bayer of Halifax who settled here around 1771. |
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2. Musquodoboit Harbour / Petpeswick Harbour
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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. |
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3. Smith Settlement
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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. |
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4. West Petpeswick / Greenough Settlement
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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
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| 6. Musquodoboit Valley Provincial Park
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| 7. White Lake Wilderness Area
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| 8. Beech Hill (Lake Charlotte) (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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| 9. Clam Bay (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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10. Clam Harbour (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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)
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| 12. Cowan Brook Nature Reserve (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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| 13. East Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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| 14. Hartlin Settlement (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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15. Head of Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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. |
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16. Lake Charlotte (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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First called Lakeville but the name was changed to Ship Harbour Lake to avoid confusion with Upper Lakeville. |
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17. Little Harbour (Sheet Harbour) (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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)
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| 19. Myers Point (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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20. Ostrea Lake (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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. |
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21. Oyster Pond (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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. |
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22. Pleasant Point (Lawrencetown) (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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First known as Kent's Island for land grantee William Kent. There was a post office by 1870. |
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23. Salmon River Bridge (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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. |
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24. Ship Harbour (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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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)
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| 26. Southwest Cove (Musquodoboit Harbour) (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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| 27. Upper Lakeville (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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28. West Jeddore (Head of Jeddore, 6km)
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The Mi'kmaw name was Winaboogwech, 'swearing place,' or Wineboogwechk, 'crooked, ugly, flowing river.' |
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29. Antrim (Meaghers Grant, 18km)
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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)
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31. Elderbank (Meaghers Grant, 18km)
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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. |
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32. Lake Egmont (Meaghers Grant, 18km)
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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)
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34. Lower Meaghers Grant / Gibraltar Rock (Lake, Hill) (Meaghers Grant, 18km)
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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. |
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35. Meaghers Grant (Meaghers Grant, 18km)
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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)
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| 37. Chezzetcook Air Weapons Range (Porters Lake, 14km)
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| 38. Cole Harbour Lawrencetown Coastal Heritage Park System (Porters Lake, 14km)
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| 39. Conrod Island Provincial Park (Porters Lake, 14km)
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40. Conrod Settlement (Porters Lake, 14km)
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Named for George Conrod who had a grant here around 1818. |