Upper Musquodoboit (Eastern Shore, B0N 2M0)
1. Caribou Mines Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Gold mining began here in 1867 and there were two stamp mills, but production of gold declined after 1903. The place was first called Caribou Gold Mines because of the mines and the plentiful caribou.
2. Centre Musquodoboit Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First named Mooskudoboogwek and then Deacontown after it was settled in 1786 by John, Matthew and Robert Archibald.
3. Chaplin Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Although the first settlers were Gustavus Stupart and John Chubb in 1811, the place is believed to have been named for another early settler.
4. Dean Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Dean family who settled here in 1798.
5. Fraser Settlement / Dedication Lake / Hutchison Settlement Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Dedication Lake: Students from Musquodoboit Rural High School visited this area in 1972 as part of a class project. The lake in question resulted from damming Sherlock Brook.
6. Greenwood (Upper Stewiacke) / Reynolds Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Part of the Fisher's Grant of 1786 and probably named for Thomas Reynolds, one of the holders of the grant. Settlement began with a group from Truro in 1785.
7. Kent Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for the Duke of Kent, Father of Queen Victoria. John and Matthew Archibald had a 1,000-acre grant here on which they operated two sawmills.
8. Pleasant Valley (Upper Stewiacke) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Grants were given around Shortts Lake in 1812. Jonathan Archibald from nearby Truro built a sawmill, gristmill and shilling mill here, starting in 1819.
9. Sheet Harbour Road Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
So named because it is on the road from Upper Musquodoboit to Sheet Harbour. Rev. John Laidlaw was the original grantee of the land, in 1816.
10. Upper Musquodoboit Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Indians called the place Kesokwedek 'the road runs over the hill.' For a time the school section and community were known as Fishers Grant.
  11. College Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Creelmans Crossing Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Governor Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Mill Lake (Upper Stewiacke) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Tait Lake Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Ten Mile Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Cross Roads (Stewiacke) (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The roads from the Upper Musquodoboit Valley and those along both sides of the Stewiacke River meet here. The land here was part of a large tract granted to 50 people in 1783, some of whom settled immediately.
18. Eastville (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled around 1831 and named by the residents for its geographic location.
  19. Goshen (Stewiacke) (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Graham Hill (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Halfway Brook (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The brook was so named because it is about halfway between Upper and Middle Stewiacke. Alexander Miller of Truro had a land grant here in 1813.
22. Meadowvale (Upper Stewiacke) / Southvale (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
It was so named in 1866. Robert Taylor and John Blair owned land here before 1792.
23. Middle Stewiacke (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Its location about midway between the old settlements in the upper valley and the one around Fort Ellis resulted in the name. William Kennedy came here from Truro in 1780.
24. Newton Mills (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Samuel Creelman received a land grant here in 1783 and built a gristmill. In 1862 the mill was converted to woolen manufacturing. A stream had been named Newton Brook by Rev. James Smith and when the gristmill opened, the community called itself Newton
  25. Otter Brook (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Pembroke (Upper Stewiake) / Glenbervie (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Prior to 1866 this place was called Pembroke, likely after the place of that name in Wales. Glenbervie was named for Bervie in Kincardineshire, Scotland, with glen' added to connote a secluded valley, making the name descriptive.
27. Smithfield (Middle Stewiacke) (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Whidden Settlement and later named for James Smith, an early land grantee. Settlement began with David Whidden in about 1825. In 1890 the local post office was called Lilyvale.
  28. Springside (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Upper Burnside (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Upper Stewiacke (Upper Stewiacke, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Earlier names were The Village and Upper Stewiacke Village. In 1783 a large land grant was given to 50 people, 14 of whom moved here the same year to begin settlement.
31. Brookvale (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Mill Village or Reid School until renamed in 1871 by act of the Legislature. John Lindsay had a 300-acre grant here in 1812.
32. Chaswood (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Halifax native Charles Wood was the first Canadian soldier to be killed in action in the South African War [Boer War) (1899-1901). He was a grandson of Gen. Zachary Taylor who was briefly (1849-50) president of the United States.
33. Cooks Brook (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for its location on the brook and for William Cook, who with five others received a grant of 1,700 acres here in 1786.
34. Elmsvale (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
An earlier name was The Flat. John, Robert and Matthew Archibald petitioned for land here in 1784.
35. Glenmore (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named after a place in Kilkenny, Ireland. James and Jeremiah Murphy and Samuel Nelson received land grants here in 1814.
36. Higginsville (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Higgins, Sr., of the 70th Regiment who had fought for the Crown in America from 1778–83, came here after the Revolutionary War.
  37. Lindsay Lake (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Long Lake (Musquodobit) (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
39. Markland (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Nova Scotia is said to have been visited or at least sighted by Erik, an Icelander, in 986. He named the place Markland, meaning 'forest-clad land.' This is likely the source of the name of present-day Markland.
40. Middle Musquodoboit (Middle Musquodoboit, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name Musquodoboit is an Anglicized version of the First Nations peoples' word Mooskuduboogwek, 'suddenly widening out after a narrow entrance at its mouth.'