Stewiacke (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0N 2J0)
1. Admiral Rock Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The settlement dates from 1806 and was once noted for shipbuilding and the export of gypsum.
2. East Stewiacke Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Lower Stewiacke and Lower East Stewiacke. Anthony Marshall was one of the first settlers, in 1767.
3. Fort Ellis Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
A fort was built here in 1761 and named for Hon. Henry Ellis, Capt.-Gen. and Governor-in-Chief of the province. The fort was abandoned and in ruins by 1767.
4. Lanesville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The earliest land grant here was made to Benjamin Sibley in 1854. The community was named for an early settler called Lane.
5. South Branch Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The river was once called South Branch of the Stewiacke River and it was from this the community took its first name, South Bar of Sydney River.
6. Stewiacke Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 639-2231 - Leave a Public Review
The town took its name from the river, first named Esiktaweak, 'whimpering or whining as it goes along,' and the name for both gradually became corrupted to its present form.
7. West St. Andrews Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Milltown. St. Andrews was the old name for Wittenburg and Milltown and eventually became known as West St. Andrews, retaining that name when St. Andrews became Wittenburg.
  8. MacKay Siding Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Ramseys Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Riverside (Stewiacke) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Roseland Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Coldstream (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Campbell family were the first settlers in the late 1700s. Rev. Robert Blackwood, the Presbyterian minister at nearby Gays River, named the place after Coldstream in Berwick-shire, Scotland.
13. Gays River (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq called the place Wisunawon, for 'beaver.' Believed named for a traveller named Gay who camped on the riverbank on his way from Halifax to Pictou. Settlement began in 1780.
  14. Indian Brook 14 (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. MacPhees Corner / Micmac (Shubenacadie) (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald, Evan and James McPhee received a 700-acre grant here in 1822.
  16. Micmac (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Mill Village (Shubenacadie) (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named for a mill built on Ryans Creek in the 1800s. William Wallace had settled by 1815.
18. North Salem (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Grants were made to John Dewel, William Delaney and Thomas Knowles in 1815.
19. Shubenacadie / Miller (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Segubunakade, where the ground nuts (potatoes) grow.' One of the earliest land grants here was to James and Gustavus Ducarete in 1763. Shubenacadie Wildlife Park here has been open to the public since 1954.
  20. Shubenacadie East (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Shubenacadie Wildlife Management Area (Shubenacadie, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Alton (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First known as Polley's Bog after the land was given in an 1821 grant to William Polley.
  23. Birch Hill, Middle Stewiacke (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Brentwood (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was called Alma in the late 1700s and then Graham's Siding from 1858 to 1903 when the Legislature gave the place its present name for a number of Brenton families living in the area.
25. Brookfield (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first settler was William Hamilton (1758-1838) from Vicar's Cairn, Armagh, in Ulster, Ireland, in 1784.
  26. Camden (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. Cloverdale (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Richardson from England settled in 1815. Named for natural features of the valley.
28. Forest Glen (Stewiacke) (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
William Downing settled here in 1812. Nearby Downings Brook is named for him.
29. Green Creek (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The area was settled about 1780 and named for the Green family, early settlers.
  30. Lower Pleasant Valley (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Pleasant Valley (Shubenacadie) (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Princeport Road (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Shortts Lake (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Upper Brookfield (Brookfield, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Barneys Brook / Lantz (Lantz, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Dutch Settlement (Lantz, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
William Keys settled near here on the Shubenacadie River about 1786 and the place was first known as Key's. The present name was given because of the number of German (Deutsch) people who subsequently settled.
  37. East Milford (Lantz, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Grono Road (Lantz, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
39. Lantz (Lantz, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first land grant was in 1785. In 1898 Harvey and Croft Lantz started a brick and tile plant and the community that grew up around it was named for them.
  40. Gaetz Brook (Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review