Sydney Forks (Cape Breton Island, B1L 1A0)
1. Blacketts Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for Walter W. Blackett from London, England, who settled here in 1818.
2. Howie Centre Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In 1825, John, James and Alexander Howie and Benjamin Cossitt applied for lands that had been granted to Hon. Thomas Townsend in 1790, but which he had forfeited. Their grant was made in 1827.
3. Meadows Road Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
George Kentley came here in 1811 and stayed for 18 months.
4. Sydney Forks Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name was in use as early as 1811. Philip Ingouville from Jersey received a land grant here in 1788, which he called Hampton Court.
5. Ben Eoin (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is Gaelic for 'Jonathan's Mountain.' The Scots often call two of their family by the same Christian name. When it is John, the second is called Jonathan, the Gaelic of which is Eoin.
  6. Ben Eoin Provincial Park (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Big Glen (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Big Pond (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Nearby are Rear Big Pond on Breac Brook and Big PondCentre 3 km SW of Big Pond which is at the mouth of Breac Brook. The First Nations peoples called the area Edoobukuk and it was so shown on maps as recent as 1868.
  9. Big Pond Beach (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Big Pond Centre (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Breac Brook (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Rory Brach was settled here before 1823.
12. East Bay (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The community takes its name from the bay it faces. The Mi'kmaq called the place Aglaseawakade, 'the English settlement and another native name still sometimes used, is Tweednooge.
13. Enon (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This place originally was part of Loch Lomond. The name Enon had been in use since 1873 and was officially changed in 1905 by an Act of Parliament. Enon was a biblical place of springs.
14. Gillis Lake (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for Donald Gillis who got a land grant nearby in 1838.
15. Glen Morrison (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Morrison family, early settlers. Donald and Angus Morrison chose their land here in 1824.
16. Glengarry Valley (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Glengarry Settlement when a grant was made to Donald McInnis in 1859. Named for Glengarry in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
17. McAdams Lake (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Donald McAdam from PEI who settled here in 1833. In 1891 coal mining was carried out here.
  18. Middle Cape (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. North Glen (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
By 1875 three Morrison families and a McDonald and McCuish family lived here.
20. Northside East Bay / McKenzie East Bay (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Northside East Bay: The Aboriginal peoples called the place Aglaseawakade, 'the English settlement.' Edmond McAdam from Scotland emigrated to PEI in 1990 and then moved here in 1815.
21. Portage (East Bay) (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because there was a portage nearby between the Sydney River and East Bay. Peter Grinton from Scotland was granted land here in 1827.
  22. Rear Big Pond (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Rear Boisdale (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named because it was inland from Boisdale on the St. Andrews Channel. Settled in the early 1800s by Campbells, McIntyres and McLeans.
  24. Rear of East Bay (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Salem Road (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. St. Andrews Channel (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the early 1800s East Bay was known as St. Andrews Channel after the Scottish patron saint.
27. Terra Nova (East Bay, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Angus Morrison received a land grant here in 1859 and named the place Terra Nova, meaning 'new land.'
28. Beechmont (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
  29. Beechmont North (Sydney River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Coxheath (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
  31. Dutch Brook (Sydney River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Edwardsville (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
33. Frenchvale (Frenchville) (Sydney River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The early settlers in 1823 were French from France and Miquelon Island.
34. Gibbon (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
35. Jefferson (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
  36. Johnson Lake Nature Reserve (Sydney River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Membertou (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
  38. Membertou 28B (Sydney River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
39. Mira Road / Membertou (Sydney River, 8km) 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.
  40. North West Arm (Sydney River, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review