Salmon River (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2Y0)
1. Bear Cove (Metaghan) (Mavillette, 7km) 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.
2. Cape St. Marys (Mavillette, 7km) 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.
  3. Mavilette Beach Provincial Park (Mavillette, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Mavillette (Mavillette, 7km) 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.
5. St. Alphonse (Mavillette, 7km) 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.
  6. Bartletts Beach (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Beaver River (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginal peoples' called the place Wezek, 'home of the beaver.'
8. Brenton (Port Maitland, 8km) 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.
  9. Cedar Lake Nature Reserve (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Darlings Lake (Port Maitland, 8km) 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.
  11. Hillview (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Lake George (Yarmouth) (Port Maitland, 8km) 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.
13. Port Maitland (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the adjacent Beaver River Elsetkook, 'flowing along by high rocks’.
  14. Port Maitland Beach Provincial Park (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Richmond (Yarmouth) (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Short Beach (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Woodstock (Port Maitland, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Maxwellton / Sigogne (Meteghan, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Township which was named for an early settler. The community came into being in the 1880s when the Western Counties Railway (later Dominion Atlantic Railway) came through the area.
19. Meteghan (Meteghan, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Muntoogun is a Mi'kmaw word meaning 'fence,' or 'weir.' Acadians settled here in the 1770s. La Vieille Maison, the old house,' built around 1768 is now a museum. Mitihikan is a Mi'kmawword meaning 'blue rocks or stones.
20. Smugglers Cove Provincial Park (Meteghan, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the 1800s this cove was called Anse-aux-Hirondelles because the high cliffs surrounding it were an ideal nesting place for swallows.
21. St. Benoni (Meteghan, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the biblical Benjamin, whose mother Rachel had called him Benoni. The settlement was an offshoot from the Meteghan colony settled by Acadians in the 1780s.
  22. St. Martin (Meteghan, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Bangor (Meteghan Centre, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was an offshoot of the Meteghan colony, which started in the 1770s. The name likely came from Bangor, ME.
  24. Meteghan Centre (Meteghan Centre, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Meteghan River (Meteghan Centre, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Meteghan Station (Meteghan Centre, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. Brooklyn (Yarmouth) (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Stephen Durkie around 1770 and first called Squirrel Town.
28. Chegoggin (North and South) (Hebron, 19km) 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’.
  29. Dayton (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Deerfield (Hebron, 19km) 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.
  31. Ellenwood Lake Provincial Park (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Forest Glen (Tusket) (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Hebron (Hebron, 19km) 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.
34. Lakeside (Hebron) (Hebron, 19km) 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.
35. Sandford (Hebron, 19km) 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.
  36. South Chegoggin (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. South Ohio (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Wellington (Yarmouth) (Hebron, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Alder Plains (Forest Glen, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Barrio Lake (Forest Glen, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review