Sambro (Halifax Metro, B3V 1G0)
1. (East) Pennant Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Skabank, where they eat raw (food).' Settled in 1811 and likely named for Penant, a village in Wales. William Embley had a land grant here in 1811.
2. Bald Rock Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive. Land was granted here in 1772 to John Burbidge and William Best and the place was first called Holland's Cove.
3. Ketch Harbour Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Nemagakumak, good fishing place. First called Catch Harbour because it was possible to make a good ‘catch' of fish in these waters.
4. Lower Prospect Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Lower Prospect was the location of the 1873 sinking of the SS Atlantic.
5. Portuguese Cove Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name may derive from the nearby wreck of a Portuguese vessel or because this place was frequently used by Portuguese fishermen. Samuel Purcell had a grant here in 1770.
6. Sambro Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Sambro Head or Cape Sambro is 7 km S and Inner Sambro and the Sambro Islands lie offshore. Nicolas Denys (1598-1688) shows this place on his map as Isle de Saint Cembro,
7. Terence Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
There were a number of names for this place before it became Terence for an early settler: Terrants Bay, Tern Bay, Turns Bay, Turner Bay, Tenant's Bay and Turner Bay Rock.
8. Williamswood / Semmidinger Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  9. Bear Cove, Halifax Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Crystal Crescent Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Duncans Cove Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Duncans Cove Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Halibut Bay Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Moosehead Island Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Rogues Roost Wilderness Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Sambro Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Sambro Head Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Sandy Cove (Halifax) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Terence Bay River Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Terence Bay Wilderness Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. West Pennant Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. 12 Wing Shearwater (Shearwater, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Canadian Forces Base Halifax (Shearwater, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Imperoyal (Shearwater, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A suburb on the E side of Halifax Harbour. Early names were Eastern Battery and Fort Clarence. Imperoyal is a contraction of Imperial Oil Co. which has a refinery here.
25. Shearwater (Shearwater, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Shearwater is an unincorporated Nova Scotia suburban community in the Halifax Regional Municipality between Woodside and Eastern Passage occupied by Shearwater heliport.
26. Beechville (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first settlers were Black refugees brought to Halifax during the War of 1812. First called Beech Hill because of the many beech trees.
  27. Blind Bay (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Brookside (Halifax area) (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Drysdale and four others received a 1,550-acre land grant here in 1787.
30. Goodwood (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name was given before 1770 and is descriptive. John Gosbee received a land grant here in 1770.
  31. Greenhead Road (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Greenwood Heights (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Hatchet Lake (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1787 a grant of 1,550 acres was made to five settlers. The name derived from either a settler losing a hatchet in the area or for deciding the lake had the shape of a hatchet.
34. Lakeside (Bayers Lake) (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is from its position beside Governors Lake. Theodosius Morris had a 500-acre grant here in 1846.
35. Lakeside (Halifax) / Greenhead (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is from its position beside Governors Lake. Theodosius Morris had a 500-acre grant here in 1846.
  36. Otter Lake (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Parkdale (Timberlea) (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Shad Bay (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Daniel, George and Peter Marlow received a land grant here in 1764. The bay was named for the species of fish that was plentiful here.
39. Timberlea (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Nine Mile River but after Angus Bowser opened a hotel around 1900 the name changed to Bowser Station.
40. Whites Lake (Lakeside, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Christian was the first land grantee here in 1837. The place is named for early settlers.