Petit Étang (Cape Breton Island, B0E 2M0)
1. Petit Étang Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is French for 'little pond.' Pierre Bois and Peter Aucoin settled here about 1782. The place was first called Eastern Harbour.
  2. La Prairie Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
3. Belle-Marche (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is French for 'beautiful walk.' Pierre Bois was living here in 1782 and more settlers arrived from Prince Edward Island by 1785.
4. Cheticamp (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
There was a fishing station here as early as 1752. During the 1770s a number of Acadian families crossed over from Prince Edward Island and settled here.
  5. Chéticamp Flats (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Chéticamp Island (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Jim Campbells Barren Wilderness Area (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. La Pointe (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Jersey merchants Philip Robin and Co. obtained a 1,000-acre grant on the island, including La Pointe, in 1790.
9. Plateau (Cheticamp, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Pierre Bois, Peter Aucoin and others were settled here by 1782. Several efforts to mine gold were made as early as 1897, but none were successful.
10. Cap Le Moine (Grand Étang, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Isadore Chiasson from PE had a licence to occupy land here in 1796. Cap Le-Moine or Cap Le Moyne is French for Cape Friar named for a nearby promontory resembling the head of a friar.
11. Grand Étang (Grand Étang, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The descriptive name is French for 'big pond’! Simon Doucette from Prince Edward Island settled here around 1805. By the 1870s there was a lobster factory, two forges, a fishing station and carding and gristmills here.
  12. Margaree River Wilderness Area (Grand Étang, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
13. Point Cross (Grand Étang, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Jersey merchants were established on nearby Cheticamp Island by 1770 when settlemeni began here. The community's name Point Cross or Pointe à la Croix, derived from a cross erected by the first settlers.
14. St. Joseph du Moine (Grand Étang, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First named Friar's Head with the arrival of the first settlers around 1814, but the current name arose with the separation of this part of the Chéticamp parish in 1879 from the main body.