Saulnierville (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 2Z0)
1. Comeauville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Clare but later renamed for early settlers, the Comeau family.
2. Concession Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In 1799 a concession of land was made in the middle of what was then Clare, to Major François Comeau and associates. The community was first referred to as Les Concessions, which over time became shortened to Concession.
3. Saulnierville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Among the first settlers were six Acadian families named Saulnier. Their surname may be traced to 15th- and 16th-century workers on the salterns, or salt works of Saintonge in SW France.
4. St. Joseph (Digby) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In Digby County 5 km W of the Spectacle Lakes between Concession and Corberrie. Named for the Roman Catholic parish here.
5. Woodvale Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Brookville for a brook that runs through the community.
  6. Little Brook Station Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Lower Concession Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Lower Saulnierville Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Saulnierville Station Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Bangor (Meteghan Centre, 7km) 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.
  11. Meteghan Centre (Meteghan Centre, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Meteghan River (Meteghan Centre, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Meteghan Station (Meteghan Centre, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Maxwellton / Sigogne (Meteghan, 8km) 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.
15. Meteghan (Meteghan, 8km) 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.
16. Smugglers Cove Provincial Park (Meteghan, 8km) 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.
17. St. Benoni (Meteghan, 8km) 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.
  18. St. Martin (Meteghan, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Church Point (Church Point, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Founded in 1771 and named Pointe de l'Église for St. Marys Church, the largest wooden church in North America. Church Point is home of the Université Sainte-Anne, the patron saint of Acadians.
  20. Church Point Beach (Church Point, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Church Point Station (Church Point, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Grosses Coques (Church Point, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Acadians who returned here after their expulsion in 1755. The area was well known for large clams, or quahogs, found on the tidal flats. Grosses is French for ‘large’ and Coque is French for ‘shell.'
23. Little Brook (Church Point, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive because a small stream flows through the settlement. Acadians settled here in 1770.
  24. Margo (Church Point, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Central Grove (Tiverton, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mi'kmaq called the place Mesadek, 'extending far out,' a name inclusive of the island. The present name is descriptive of a village in a grove of trees near the centre of the island. Hotel owner Nicholas Tibert was a pioneer here in the late 1700s.
26. Central Grove Provincial Park / Long Island (Tiverton, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Central Grove Provincial Park: Located about half-way down Long Island in Digby County, this is a popular rest spot for those travelling to Brier Island.
27. East Ferry (Tiverton, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Loyalists settled after 1785. The name derives from this being the E terminus of the ferry across Petite Passage to Long Island.
  28. Israels Cove Beach (Tiverton, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Little River (Digby) (Tiverton, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Tiverton (Tiverton, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Robert Outhouse and John McKay founded the community in 1785. It was called Petite Passage until 1867 when it was renamed to honour Thomas Mildon (1812-1906), a well known teacher in the county whose birthplace was Tiverton in England.
31. Bear Cove (Metaghan) (Mavillette, 17km) 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.
32. Cape St. Marys (Mavillette, 17km) 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.
  33. Mavilette Beach Provincial Park (Mavillette, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Mavillette (Mavillette, 17km) 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.
35. St. Alphonse (Mavillette, 17km) 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.
  36. Freeport (Freeport, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Gilberts Landing (Freeport, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Danvers (Weymouth, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1828-29 lumbermen settled just N of here around Sissiboo River Falls. Some of their descendants moved to this area. Danvers is believed to have been named after one of them.
39. Easton (Weymouth, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called New Jerusalem and then Enoch Mullen Settlement for Enoch McMullen, who settled here in 1856.
40. Hassett (Weymouth, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for William Hassett, foreman of a gang of Irish lumbermen who settled by the first falls of the Sissiboo River around 1828.