Port Maitland (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B5A 2V0)
1. Beaver River Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginal peoples' called the place Wezek, 'home of the beaver.'
2. Brenton Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
James Walker settled here in 1825. The place is believed to be named for James Brenton, third Attorney-General, 1779-81.
3. Darlings Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
On an inspection trip to Yarmouth in 1790, Col. Michael Ashley Darling from Annapolis Garrison, camped here and named the place after himself.
4. Lake George (Yarmouth) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began in the late 1700s. Named to commemorate the long and controversial reign of King George III from 1760-1830.
5. Port Maitland Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the adjacent Beaver River Elsetkook, 'flowing along by high rocks’.
  6. Bartletts Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Cedar Lake Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Hillview Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Port Maitland Beach Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Richmond (Yarmouth) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Short Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Woodstock Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
13. Brooklyn (Yarmouth) (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Stephen Durkie around 1770 and first called Squirrel Town.
14. Chegoggin (North and South) (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1630 the Mi'kmaq knew the place as Noojeogun, but Chegoggir evolved from Che for great and goggin for 'encampment’.
  15. Dayton (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Deerfield (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive of a deer habitat. Settlement began early in the 1800s and in the 1820s Braemar Lodge, a resort and sporting centre was opened by J. D. Burton.
  17. Ellenwood Lake Provincial Park (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Forest Glen (Tusket) (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Hebron (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name for the area was Malegeak, 'bent in different directions,' referring to the Yarmouth River.
20. Lakeside (Hebron) (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Natives called the place Kespoogwit, 'land's end.' The settlement was an offshoot of the Yarmouth settlement in the late 1700s.
21. Sandford (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Kespoogwit, 'land's end.' The English name likely derived from the fact there was a sandy ford across a nearby stream. Settlement began in the 1770s.
  22. South Chegoggin (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. South Ohio (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Wellington (Yarmouth) (Hebron, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Bear Cove (Metaghan) (Mavillette, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The area was settled by Acadians in the late 1700s and the name likely resulted from an experience with a bear.
26. Cape St. Marys (Mavillette, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Cape Cove and later named for the Virgin Mary. Land was granted to Elias Hardy and three others in 1799 and a lighthouse was built in 1868.
  27. Mavilette Beach Provincial Park (Mavillette, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
28. Mavillette (Mavillette, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Acadians in the late 1700s. The name may derive from the French Mauviette, 'field lark,' or the words 'ma villette,' my little village.
29. St. Alphonse (Mavillette, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place takes its name from the parish church, St. Alphonse, so named for Alphonso Marie dei Ligouri, son of a Neapolitan noble who abandoned a legal career to become a Roman Catholic bishop.
30. Cape Forchu (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Champlain named the point in 1604 because, he said, it was formed like a fork.
  31. Greenville (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Milton Highlands (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Overton (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Malegeak, 'fretful water. The present name reflects the fact that the village is across, or over, the harbour from Yarmouth town. The Rose family was settled here by 1797.
34. Pembroke (Yarmouth) / Pembroke Shore (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Kesp-oogwit, 'land's end.' Levi Scovil settled here in 1793. The place was named for a town in Wales.
  35. Sand Beach (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Sand Beach (Protected Beach) (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Yarmouth (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 742-2521 FAX: (902) 742-6244 - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the area Kespoogwit, “land's end,' and the place Maligeak, 'crooked every which way, referring to the Yarmouth River.
  38. Yarmouth 33 (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Yarmouth Bar (Yarmouth, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Arcadia (Arcadia, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name was Utkubok, 'spring water.' New England settlers in the 1760s called the place Upper Chebogue.