Sydney (Cape Breton Island, B1P 1T0)
1. Balls Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for Hon. Ingraham Ball who had a land grant bordering on the creek in 1795.
2. Grand Lake Road Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is descriptive and was used by the time the second land grant was made here in 1854. John Brooks received the first grant in 1790.
3. South Bar Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The full name of the place is South Bar of Sydney River The name was given because a sandbar stretches out into the harbour at this point.
4. Sydney Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British, was incorporated as a city in 1904, and dissolved on 1 August 1995, when it was amalgamated into the regional municipality.
5. Whitney Pier / Muggah Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Whitney Pier: First called International Pier for the shipping docks of Dominion Steel and Coal Co., but the name changed when the post office opened in 1895. Henry M. Whitney, an American, was founder and first president of the company, formed in 1893.
  6. Ashby Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Hardwood Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Kytes Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Lingan Road Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Petersfield Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Sydney 28A Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Sydney Range Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Victoria Junction Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Beechmont (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for hilly countryside covered by beech trees. Peter Delisle from the Island of Guernsey received a large land grant in 1829.
  15. Beechmont North (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
16. Coxheath (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A grant of land made to Capt. William Cox in 1790 was named Coxheath. Copper has been mined intermittently here since 1881.
  17. Dutch Brook (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Edwardsville (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place name includes the point of land on which it is located ,which was named to honour Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria.
19. Frenchvale (Frenchville) (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The early settlers in 1823 were French from France and Miquelon Island.
20. Gibbon (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Gibbons family whose members lived here in the late 1800s. Settlement likely began in the late 1780s. In 1786 land was granted here to Samuel Sparrow and Alexander Haire.
21. Jefferson (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for Thomas Jefferson, third president of the US. Land was granted to Ebenezer Brewer here in 1788.
  22. Johnson Lake Nature Reserve (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Membertou (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Membertou, named after Grand Chief Membertou (1510-1611), is one of five Mi’kmaq communities in Cape Breton and one of thirteen Mi’kmaq communities within the province of Nova Scotia.
  24. Membertou 28B (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Mira Road / Membertou (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Located immediately east of Sydney, and now joined with Sydney as part of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Mira Road was originally built in the 18th century by French military forces from Fortress Louisbourg.
  26. North West Arm (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. Point Edward (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named in the 1790s for Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820), father of Queen Victoria, who served as commander of the British forces in Nova Scotia from 1794-1800.
  28. Prime Brook (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Rear Balls Creek (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Sydney River (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Upper Leitches Creek (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Westmount (Sydney River, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Barrachois Harbour (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Barrachois or Barachois is a common place name in Atlantic Canada... more than 30 times in Nova Scotia alone. The word is of Basque origin from 'barratxo' or 'barrachoa' for sandbar.
  34. Barrachois Provincial Park (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Barrachois, Cape Breton (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Centreville, Sydney (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Gannon Road (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called French Village; later named for an early settler. In 1808 Francis Young got a Crown lease and called it Mon Espoir, 'my hope.'
38. Georges River / Watson (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the 1760s the cove was called Swanton Cove and was likely renamed to honour King George II or III. Baptiste Josson was living here in 1818.
39. Ironville (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named when iron ore was found here. James McSwayze was here about 1820 and Thomas Jost had built a mill here before he received his grant in 1846.
40. Leitches Creek (North Sydney, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Also along the same creek are Leitches Creek Station and Upper Leitches Creek.