Sydney River (Cape Breton Island, B1S 1P0)
1. Beechmont 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.
2. Coxheath 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.
3. Edwardsville 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.
4. Frenchvale (Frenchville) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The early settlers in 1823 were French from France and Miquelon Island.
5. Gibbon 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.
6. Jefferson 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.
7. Membertou 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.
8. Mira Road / Membertou 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.
9. Point Edward 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.
  10. Beechmont North Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Dutch Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Johnson Lake Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Membertou 28B Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. North West Arm Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Prime Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Rear Balls Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Sydney River Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Upper Leitches Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Westmount Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Ashby (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Balls Creek (Sydney, 5km) 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.
22. Grand Lake Road (Sydney, 5km) 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.
  23. Hardwood Hill (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Kytes Hill (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Lingan Road (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Petersfield Provincial Park (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. South Bar (Sydney, 5km) 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.
28. Sydney (Sydney, 5km) 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.
  29. Sydney 28A (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Sydney Range (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Victoria Junction (Sydney, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Whitney Pier / Muggah Creek (Sydney, 5km) 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.
33. Blacketts Lake (Sydney Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for Walter W. Blackett from London, England, who settled here in 1818.
34. Howie Centre (Sydney Forks, 8km) 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.
35. Meadows Road (Sydney Forks, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
George Kentley came here in 1811 and stayed for 18 months.
36. Sydney Forks (Sydney Forks, 8km) 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.
37. Barrachois Harbour (North Sydney, 12km) 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.
  38. Barrachois Provincial Park (North Sydney, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Barrachois, Cape Breton (North Sydney, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Centreville, Sydney (North Sydney, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review