Upper Stewiacke (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0N 2P0)
1. Cross Roads (Stewiacke) 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.
2. Eastville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled around 1831 and named by the residents for its geographic location.
3. Halfway Brook 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.
4. Meadowvale (Upper Stewiacke) / Southvale 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.
5. Middle Stewiacke 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.
6. Newton Mills 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
7. Pembroke (Upper Stewiake) / Glenbervie 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.
8. Smithfield (Middle Stewiacke) 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.
9. Upper Stewiacke 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.
  10. Goshen (Stewiacke) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Graham Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Otter Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Springside Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Upper Burnside Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Caribou Mines (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
16. Centre Musquodoboit (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
17. Chaplin (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
  18. College Lake (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Creelmans Crossing (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Dean (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Dean family who settled here in 1798.
21. Fraser Settlement / Dedication Lake / Hutchison Settlement (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
  22. Governor Lake (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Greenwood (Upper Stewiacke) / Reynolds (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
24. Kent (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
  25. Mill Lake (Upper Stewiacke) (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Pleasant Valley (Upper Stewiacke) (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
27. Sheet Harbour Road (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.
  28. Tait Lake Nature Reserve (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Ten Mile Lake (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Upper Musquodoboit (Upper Musquodoboit, 10km) 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.