River Bourgeois (Cape Breton Island, B0E 2X0)
1. Cannes Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for the French seaport and settled about 1795.
2. River Bourgeois Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The passage separates Isle Madame from Cape Breton Island. The name recalls Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1735-1806). He was secretary of state in the British cabinet.
3. Seaview Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Sporting Mountain but renamed by provincial statute in 1890. Peter Landris had a land grant here in 1805.
4. Thibeauville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Jacob Thibeau settled here in 1836.
  5. Camerons Mountain Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Hawker Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. South Side River Bourgeois Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Sporting Mountain Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Cap La Ronde (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. D'Escousse (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Fishermen from St. Malo, France, established the place around 1718. In a 1752 census the place is listed as Descoust. Thomas Pichon (1700-81) referred to it as Decoux when he was writing about the place in 1760.
  11. D'Escousse (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Grand Lake (Cape Breton) (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Lac Sec (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Lennox (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Lennox Passage Provincial Park (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Poirierville (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Ann Poirier received a Crown grant lease here in 1815. In the early 1900s the place was called Lower D’Escousse.
17. Poulamon (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is of Mi'kmaw origin and means 'tom cod.' Placide Boudrot was the first land grantee in 1861.
18. Rocky Bay (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Peter Pettipas had a Crown lease here in 1806. By 1845 the school had 28 pupils.
  19. Rocky Bay Beach (D'Escousse, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Barra Head (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Salmon River. The Celtic word barra means 'hilly island and the original Barra is a hilly island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
  21. Battery Provincial Park (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Cape George, Bras d'Or (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Carters Cove (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Chapel Island 5 (Doctor, Ghost, Indian, Gregory, Jail and Alick Islands) (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This is where the Mi'kmaq of the surrounding districts gather each year for the Feast of St. Anne.
25. French Cove (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in the mid to late 1800s and first named McKay's Harbour for early settler James McKay, who came here in 1873.
26. Grande Greve (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is French for 'big bank.' Francis Murphy had the first land grant here in 1787.
27. Hay Cove / McNabs Cove (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hay Cove: Mi'kmaq called the place Galnotek. Catherine McNeil received the first land grant here in 1836.
  28. Head of Loch Lomond (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Irish Cove (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Golhamkilk. The community was named Irish Cove because early settlement before 1817 was carried out by Irish immigrants.
  30. Irish Cove Nature Reserve (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Irish Vale (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Irishman Roderick McDonald had the first grant here in 1821.
32. Jacksonville (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Jackson was one of the early land grantees in 1866.
33. Johnstown (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Nemtogowak meaning the 'sitting place.' The present name honours parish priest Rev. John McDougall or early settler John McMullen, who came in 1836.
34. Lake Uist (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for North or South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The first settlers in this area in the 1840s were from this area of Scotland.
35. Loch Lomond (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Loch Lomond in Scotland by settlers who arrived in 1827. In 1905 the name was changed by provincial statute to Enott...but the original name remains in use today.
  36. Loch Lomond West (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Lochside (Cape Breton, Mt. Auburn) (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald Morrison was the first land grantee in 1857. By 1904 the community had saw, grist and carding mills.
38. Lynche River (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. MacNabs Cove (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Mount Auburn (St. Peters, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald Morrison had a land grant here in 1847.