Shag Harbour (South Shore, B0W 3B0)
1. Atwoods Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named in 1776 for New England Planter Joseph Atwood from Cape Cod, MA.
2. Bear Point Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Land grants were issued here in 1767. The name is believed to have originally been Bare Point for a lack of vegetation at the time. There is no record of any incident involving a bear. One of the first lobster factories on the coast was established here.
3. Lower Shag Harbour / Bon Portage Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Bon Portage: A small Island off Shag Harbour made famous by Evelyn Richardson's novels. She won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction for her novel We Keep A Light. The name is French for 'good carrying place.'
4. Seal Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
A cluster of five small Islands due W of Cape Sable Island, named Îles aux Loups Martins, 'seal islands' by Samuel de Champlain in 1604.
5. Shag Harbour Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Shag was an early French word for 'cormorant.' Samuel de Champlain's map of 1614 shows a trading post near Cape Sable at the mouth of Shag Harbour Brook called Vieux Logis, old house.
  6. East Side Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. West Side Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Barrington Passage / Northeast Point (Barrington Passage, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name for the place was Ministegek, 'he has gone for it,' and the French called the place Le Passage because of the Channel between Cape Sable Island and the mainland.
9. Crowell (Barrington Passage, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1768 Simon and Judah Crowell and Elisha Hopkins laid out their land grant here. When their descendants grew numerous, the N part was called Hopkinstown and the S section was Crowelltown.
10. Doctors Cove (Barrington Passage, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The site was included in the Barrington Bay area first known as Menstugek. The French called the passage La Passage, 'The Passage.''
  11. North East Point (Barrington Passage, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Sherose Island (Barrington Passage, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Archelaus Smith and Thomas Crowell, Jr., settled on what was then called Shoroes Island in 1761. The island was later named for an early settler.
  13. Centre East Pubnico (Lower East Pubnico, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Charlesville (Lower East Pubnico, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by land grantees in the late 1700s and early 1800s and called Pubnico Beach until 1865 when the name changed to honour Rev. Charles Oram, a popular minister.
  15. Lower East Pubnico (Lower East Pubnico, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Middle East Pubnico (Lower East Pubnico, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. The Brothers Islands Wildlife Management Area (Lower East Pubnico, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Upper Woods Harbour (Lower East Pubnico, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Clam Point (Stoney Island, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because settlers found piles of clam shells left by Aboriginal peoples.
  20. Stoney Island (Stoney Island, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Middle West Pubnico (Middle West Pubnico, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. West Pubnico (Middle West Pubnico, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
West Pubnico is one of the top fishing ports in Nova Scotia by value of landings, and is home to 15 fish processing companies.