Tusket (Yarmouth and Acadian Shores, B0W 3M0)
1. (Lower) Eel Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Wipkomagakum, ‘place of poor and lean eels.'
2. Amiraults Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
This community in the Municipality of Argyle recalls the resilience of the Acadians, who returned in droves to Nova Scotia following their expulsion in 1755.
3. Belleville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In the 1780s the area was part of the Upper Abuptic Settlement. In the 1880s it was part of the Eel Brook settlement.
4. Canaan (Tusket) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In the early 1800s Greggs Farish received a grant at the ‘Valley of Canaan.'
5. Gavelton Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for John Gavel, one of a number of Loyalists who applied for land grants in 1784 and received them in the Tusket Lakes region.
6. Glenwood Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In 1776 Lt. Ranald McKinnon received a land grant here which also included adjacent Roberts Island. The place was first known as Argyle Head which later became the name of a community 3 km N. In 1873 the place was given the descriptive name Glenwood.
7. Morris Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the River Neketaouksit, great forked tidal river.' The present name is from John Morris, who received a grant of the island in 1773.
8. Pleasant Valley (Yarmouth) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Welskoodaguk, picturesque valley.' Settled by people from Yarmouth and Tusket in the 1830s.
9. Plymouth (Yarmouth) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the river Neketaouksit, 'the great tidal river.' The present name is believed to gave been given by Loyalist settlers from Shelburne who came here in 1785.
10. Quinan Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq called the place Nictahk, 'forks of a river, and for a time it was called Tusket Forks. In 1885 the name was changed to honour the career of Rev. John L. Quinan, who served the local parish from 1860-68.
11. Raynardton / Reynardtown Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for Job Reynard, who received a grant on the Tusket River in 1828.
12. Roberts Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
For a time this island was derisively called Non Present, Non Prison or NonParison Island. During the 1755 deportation of Acadians, Major Jedidiah Prebble put a number of Acadians ashore here for safekeeping until he could return to take them to Boston.
13. Ste. Anne du Ruisseau Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Wipkoogmajokun, place for eels' and the community's first name, Eel Brook, is a rough translation.
14. Surettes Island Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name Neketaouksit, great forked river' probably included this island, named for early settlers. A Roman Catholic church was consecrated here in 1859.
15. Tusket Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name evolved from the Aboriginal peoples' name Neketaouksit, 'great, forked tidal river.
16. Tusket Falls / Bridge / More-Rum Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
  17. Abrams River Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Argyle Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Argyle Head Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Bell Neck Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Belleville North Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Belleville South Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. East Canaan Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. East Quinan Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Glenwood Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Hubbards Point Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Lower Eel Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Pleasant Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Rocco Point Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. South Quinan Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Spar Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Springhaven Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Summerville (Yarmouth) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Tusket River Ecological Site Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Tusket River Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Arcadia (Arcadia, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal name was Utkubok, 'spring water.' New England settlers in the 1760s called the place Upper Chebogue.
37. Central Chebogue (Arcadia, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Chebogue Point (Arcadia, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
An attempt at settlement was made by the French here in 1739 when the place was named Tibogue, but it was unsuccessful.
39. Kelleys Cove (Arcadia, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name for the Chebogue area which includes Kelly Cove, was Utkubok, ‘a spring of water.'
40. Melbourne (Arcadia, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Aboriginals called the place Keskoospaak, ‘where they catch beavers.' Settled in the late 1700s. Named for William Lamb (1779-1848), 2nd Lord Melbourne.