Parrsboro (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0M 1S0)
1. Diligent River Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place takes its name from the river which flows into the Minas Basin here. During the French colonial period this area was known as Rivière Gascogne, named for Gascony, a province in SW France.
2. Diligent River Nature Reserve / Parrsboro Shore Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
3. Fox River Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The first land grantees in 1784-88 were Capt. John Hatfield, Rebecca Cloud and Finlay Burns.
4. Greenhill (Parrsboro) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Charles Fraser was the first land grantee here in 1811.
5. Halfway River / Halfway River East Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Loyalists and Scots around 1778. Caleb Lewis and John Fordice were early settlers.
6. Kirkhill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for James Kirkpatrick, who settled on 'Kirk's Hill' in 1812.
7. Lake Road Corner / Jeffers Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
8. Lakelands (Parrsboro) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive and the place was settled in the late 1700s. There were settlers here before John Perry received his land grant in 1785.
9. Moose River (Parrsboro) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginal people called the place Kesegwichk, 'the current flows swiftly,' and the current name derives from there having been an abundance of moose in the area. Lt.Col. Francis Kearney settled in 1801.
10. New Prospect Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the early 1800s. The first school was established by 1848. Josiah and John Fulton had the first land grants here in 1859.
11. Parrsboro Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mi'kmaw called the place Awokun, 'a portage or shortcut.'
12. Port Greville / Greville Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place takes its name from Greville Bay which was named for Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), clerk of council 1821–59, a political diarist and confidante of two prime ministers, Wellington and Palmerston.
13. Riverside Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
John Fraser had a land grant here in 1801.
14. Two Islands Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Charles Fraser was a grantee here in 1811.
15. Wards Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Edward and William Teate had grants here in 1815.
16. West Bay (Parrsboro) / Union Valley Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
17. Wharton Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for Lord Wharton. Capt. Thomas Moore and two soldiers who had served with the New Jersey Volunteers received grants here in 1785.
18. Yorke Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Capt. Moore, Edmund Butler and Joseph Mumford were members of the New Jersey Volunteers who received land grants here in 1785.
  19. Black Rock, Parrsboro Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Cross Roads (Parrsboro) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Harrison Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. North Greville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Partridge Island Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Port Greville Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Blue Sac Road (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Five Islands (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Originally called Nankulmenegool, meaning five islands. Legend has it that Glooscap, in a fit of anger, threw five rocks across the Minas Basin from his residence on Cape Blomidon.
  27. Five Islands Provincial Park (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Gerrish Valley (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Harrington Beach (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Lower Economy (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Lower Five Islands (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. New Britain (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Sand Point Beach (Lower Five Islands, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review