Port Hastings (Cape Breton Island, B9A 2A0)
1. Aulds Cove / Cape Porcupine Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled around 1785 and named for pioneer settler Alexander Auld. On an 1812 map the place is shown as Porcupine Cove. Aulds Cove is on the borders of Antigonish and Guysborough Cs. although the cove is in Guysborough County.
2. Crandall Road Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
John Reeves settled here in 1806.
3. Creignish Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The word is Gaelic for 'rocky place,' and was named for a location in Argyllshire, Scotland.
4. Mackdale Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name was given by Scottish settlers. Michael Dalton had land here in 1835.
5. Port Hastings Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In Inverness County on the E side of the Strait of Canso about 1.5 km SE of the Cape Breton terminus of the Canso Causeway, which opened in 1955.
6. Queensville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled around 1815 and named in 1862 for Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee.
7. Sugar Camp Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
John McDonald was among the first settlers in 1821. His hometown of Sugar Refinery, Greenock, Scotland, was likely the inspiration for the name of this community.
8. Troy Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Sarah McDonald was granted land here in 1811 place was named for the ancient city of Troy in Asia Minor.
  9. Aulds Cove Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Creignish Hills Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Creignish Rear Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Lexington Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Low Point Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Newtown (Cape Breton) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Pleasant Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Rhodena Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Middle Melford (Mulgrave, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Mulgrave (Mulgrave, 4km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 747-2243 FAX: (902) 747-2585 - Leave a Public Review
This town is located on the west side of the Strait of Canso on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. The Indian name was Wolumkwagagunutk, 'lobster ground.'
19. Pirate Harbour / Apagwit (Susies) Island / Clinton (Mulgrave, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Pirate Harbour: This is the name of a cove with some settlement located around it, on the west side of the strait of Canso, on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia.
20. Sand Point (Port Hawkesbury) (Mulgrave, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This rural area is located on Red Head on the north side of the mouth of Chedabucto Bay on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia.
21. Steep Creek (Mulgrave, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A small stream here drops down a steep incline to the strait. Edward McGuire settled here before 1817.
22. Lower River Inhabitants (Port Hawkesbury, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in 1814. The name is a direct translation of the French name, Rivière des Habitants, river of the inhabitants.
  23. Melville (Port Hawkesbury) (Port Hawkesbury, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Point Tupper (Port Hawkesbury, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Recent research by a Guernsey historian has proven this place was not named for Sir Charles Tupper (1821-915), a premier of Nova Scotia and, briefly, prime minister of Canada.
25. Port Hawkesbury (Port Hawkesbury, 5km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 625-7890 - Leave a Public Review
First named Ship Harbour because it was developed as a shipbuilding and trading centre by Nicholas Paint, Jr. (1790–1832) from Guernsey.
26. Port Malcolm (Port Hawkesbury, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Caribou Cove because the animals were plentiful. The name was changed in 1886 by provincial statute to honour several Malcolm families living in the area since the 1820s.
27. Port Richmond (Port Hawkesbury, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
It was first called Little River but in 1864 renamed to honour the Duke of Richmond.
  28. Frankville (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Grosvenor (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This settlement is located about a mile north west of Summers Lake, west of the strait of Canso, in eastern Nova Scotia. It was perhaps named after Robert Grosvenor, a lord of the Admiralty or Field Marshal Thomas Grosvenor.
30. Havre Boucher / Frankville (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A village on Hwy. 4, 18 km NW of Port Hastings and a harbour opening on St. Georges Bay 8 km W of Canso Causeway.
31. Monastery (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name derives from a monastery founded as Point Clairvaux by French Trappists in 1825. It was abandoned in 1919 and reopened in 1938 by the Augustinian Fathers and now called St. Augustine's Monastery.
  32. Rear Monastery (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Tracadie River Wilderness Area (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Upper Big Tracadie (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This rural area is located on the Tracadie River south of the Antigonish-Guysborough County1 line in eastern Nova Scotia. 'Tracadie' is an anglicized version of the Indian name Telagadik, 'the inhabited place.'
  35. West Arm or Myettes Beach (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. West Linwood (Frankville, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Barrios Beach (Havre Boucher, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Barrio family was among the first Acadian settlers of Tracadie and had come from St. Pierre et Miquelon. The Acadians called this place La Point du Cimetière, Cemetery Point.
38. Big Tracadie (Havre Boucher, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named because the harbour was larger than Little Tracadie Harbour. Settled in the early 1800s.
  39. Cape Jack (Havre Boucher, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Cape Jack Beach (Havre Boucher, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review