Port Morien (Cape Breton Island, B1B 1A0)
1. Birch Grove Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The first recorded residents were here in 1865 after explorations for coal had started. From 1912-30, Dominion # 21 and # 22 collieries were operating. When they closed, many miners went to work at mines in Glace Bay. The name is descriptive.
2. Broughton Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
A small seam of coal was found here in the early 1900s which led to what historian William B. Hamilton describes as 'one of the most spectacular fiascos in the history of Nova Scotia.'
3. Homeville / False Bay Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
4. Morien (Cape) (Port) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Cape Morien: First named Mooloktooch or Noolektooch, ‘place jammed with ice.' The cape was named Morien first and the name is thought to be a corruption of the Portuguese for St. Martin.
5. Port Morien Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw names for this place were Mooloktooch and Noolektooch, ‘place jammed with ice' and 'bivouacking place.
6. Round Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name notes a prominent local feature and was given prior to 1874. The first land grantee, Samuel Brookman, came here in 1865.
7. Waddens Cove Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Benjamin Wadden and his family moved here from Newfoundland in 1804 and settled on the E side of False Bay Lake before he received a grant at what was then called Ben's Point.
  8. Black Brook, Glace Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Morien Junction Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Morrison Road Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Port Morien Beach Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Port Morien French Mine Site Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Sand Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. South Head Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. South Port Morien Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Big Glace Bay (Donkin, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Donkin (Donkin, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Dominion Coal Company opened Dominion Number 6 here in 1904 and a community formed around it, initially known as Dominion Number 6.
  18. Long Beach (Donkin, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Port Caledonia (Donkin, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The earliest land grant at Port Caledonia was in 1835 to Peter Hall Clarke. Operations at Clyde Colliery, between Glace Bay and Schooner Pond, were begun in 1863. The mine operated until the 1890s.
  20. Schooner Beach (Donkin, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Schooner Pond (Donkin, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Glace Bay (Glace Bay, 9km) 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.
  23. Glace Bay Beach (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Hub (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Marconi Towers (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. McKays Corner (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Morien Hill (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. New Aberdeen (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Sterling (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Table Head (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Tower Road (Glace Bay, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Belgiumtown (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Centreville Reserve Mines (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. East Slope (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. McLeods Crossing (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Passchendaele (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Reserve Mines (Reserve Mines, 12km) 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.
  38. Reserve Rows (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Steeles Hill (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Tomkinsville (Reserve Mines, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review