Reserve Mines (Cape Breton Island, B1E 1A0)
1. Reserve Mines 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.
  2. Belgiumtown Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Centreville Reserve Mines Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. East Slope Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. McLeods Crossing Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Passchendaele Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Reserve Rows Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Steeles Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Tomkinsville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Bridgeport (Dominion, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Bridgeport Beach (Dominion, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Dominion (Dominion, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1894 the Dominion Coal Company opened Dominion Number 1 Shaft and a community grew up around it, first known as Dominion Number 1.
  13. Dominion Beach Provincial Park (Dominion, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Gardiner Mines (Dominion, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First named Gardner Mines, for Michael Gardiner, an early Irish settler. In 1818 Alexander Campbell from Scotland was granted a lot called Barbue.
15. Glace Bay (Glace Bay, 5km) 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.
  16. Glace Bay Beach (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Hub (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Marconi Towers (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. McKays Corner (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Morien Hill (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. New Aberdeen (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Sterling (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Table Head (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Tower Road (Glace Bay, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Kaneville (New Waterford, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Lingan (New Waterford, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginal peoples called the place Milesec. French people settled here before 1716 and called the place Bay L'Indienne (Indian Bay). For a time they operated a mine, calling the place Cape Coal.
  27. New Waterford (New Waterford, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1907 the Dominion Coal Co. opened a mine at a place called Barachois, a word meaning 'pool' or 'lagoon. After the town was incorporated in 1913, the new name was put forward by the mayor, J. J. Hinckey, a native of Waterford, Ireland.
28. River Ryan (New Waterford, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Ryan family and for the closeness of Northwest Brook, which flows S to Lingan Basin. Lawrence Morrisie settled here in 1821.
29. Scotchtown / Waterford Lake (New Waterford, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because of its predominantly Scottish population. Patrick Ratchford settled here in 1842, but settlement was sparse in the 1840s.
  30. Big Glace Bay (Donkin, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Donkin (Donkin, 11km) 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.
  32. Long Beach (Donkin, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Port Caledonia (Donkin, 11km) 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.
  34. Schooner Beach (Donkin, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Schooner Pond (Donkin, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Birch Grove (Port Morien, 12km) 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.
  37. Black Brook, Glace Bay (Port Morien, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Broughton (Port Morien, 12km) 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.'
39. Homeville / False Bay Beach (Port Morien, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Morien (Cape) (Port) (Port Morien, 12km) 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.