New Waterford (Cape Breton Island, B1H 0A0)
1. Lingan Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginal peoples called the place Milesec. French people settled here before 1716 and called the place Bay L'Indienne (Indian Bay). For a time they operated a mine, calling the place Cape Coal.
2. River Ryan Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Ryan family and for the closeness of Northwest Brook, which flows S to Lingan Basin. Lawrence Morrisie settled here in 1821.
3. Scotchtown / Waterford Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
So named because of its predominantly Scottish population. Patrick Ratchford settled here in 1842, but settlement was sparse in the 1840s.
  4. Kaneville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. New Waterford Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1907 the Dominion Coal Co. opened a mine at a place called Barachois, a word meaning 'pool' or 'lagoon. After the town was incorporated in 1913, the new name was put forward by the mayor, J. J. Hinckey, a native of Waterford, Ireland.
  6. Bridgeport (Dominion, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Bridgeport Beach (Dominion, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Dominion (Dominion, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1894 the Dominion Coal Company opened Dominion Number 1 Shaft and a community grew up around it, first known as Dominion Number 1.
  9. Dominion Beach Provincial Park (Dominion, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Gardiner Mines (Dominion, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First named Gardner Mines, for Michael Gardiner, an early Irish settler. In 1818 Alexander Campbell from Scotland was granted a lot called Barbue.
  11. Belgiumtown (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Centreville Reserve Mines (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. East Slope (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. McLeods Crossing (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Passchendaele (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Reserve Mines (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name originated when the General Mining Association then working in this area held the operation of this mine back for future use.
  17. Reserve Rows (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Steeles Hill (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Tomkinsville (Reserve Mines, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Glace Bay (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Wasokusegwom for ‘shining, home of glory.' Glace (French for ice) Bay first appears on a census in 1752, describing the bay formed by Table Head and Cape Percé.
  21. Glace Bay Beach (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Hub (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Marconi Towers (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. McKays Corner (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Morien Hill (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. New Aberdeen (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Sterling (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Table Head (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Tower Road (Glace Bay, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Sydney Mines (Sydney Mines, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called simply The Mines and later named for Thomas Townshend, first Viscount Sydney. Coal was shipped from here to Boston in 1724 and to Martinique in 1732.
  31. Ashby (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Balls Creek (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Hon. Ingraham Ball who had a land grant bordering on the creek in 1795.
33. Grand Lake Road (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive and was used by the time the second land grant was made here in 1854. John Brooks received the first grant in 1790.
  34. Hardwood Hill (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Kytes Hill (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Lingan Road (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Petersfield Provincial Park (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. South Bar (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The full name of the place is South Bar of Sydney River The name was given because a sandbar stretches out into the harbour at this point.
39. Sydney (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality.
  40. Sydney 28A (Sydney, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review