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2. Barra Glen (Iona, 16km)
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3. Cains (Mountain) (Iona, 16km)
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Murdock Matheson had the first land grant here in 1846. |
4. Cains Mountain Wilderness Area (Iona, 16km)
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5. Estmere (Iona, 16km)
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'Mere' is a Scottish word for pond, pool or lakelet, and sometimes the sea, and 'est' is French for E. This place name was given by Act of Parliament in 1887. |
6. Gillis Point (Iona, 16km)
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7. Gillis Point East / McNeils Vale (Iona, 16km)
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8. Grand Narrows (Iona, 16km)
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he Mi'kmaw name for the place was Taawitk, place where the water flows out.' Hector McNeil was one of the first Barra Scots to settle here about 1804. |
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9. Grass Cove (Iona, 16km)
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Hector and John McNeil received land grants here in 1835. |
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10. Highland Hill (Iona, 16km)
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Land grantees in 1835 were Donald, Malcolm and Roderick McNeil. |
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11. Iona (Iona, 16km)
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On the W side of the Grand Narrows of Barra Strait of Bras d'Or Lake and once part of what was known as Grand Narrows Settlement on Hwy. 233. |
12. Iona Beach (Iona, 16km)
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13. Iona Rear (Iona, 16km)
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Donald, Malcolm and Roderick McNeil had land grants here by 1835. |
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14. Jamesville (Iona, 16km)
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The place was first called Nackady. A statute of the province renamed the place in 1883 for early settlers. |
15. Jamesville West (Iona, 16km)
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16. Lower Washabuck (Iona, 16km)
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Settled in 1877 by John McNeil, Matthew King and Peter S. McLean. |
17. MacNeils Vale (Iona, 16km)
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18. Malagawatch 4 (Iona, 16km)
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19. McKinnons Harbour (Iona, 16km)
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The Aboriginal people called the place Amasiboogwek, ‘a grand river.' Roderick and Allan McKinnon, who reached Pictou in 1802, applied for land in 1809. In 1817 John McKinnon from Barra, Scotland, settled here. |
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20. Ottawa Brook (Iona, 16km)
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John and Peter NcDonald and Hector McLean had grants here in 1910. |
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21. Plaster (Cove) (Iona, 16km)
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Hector McNeil was the first settler in 1872. |
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22. Red Point (Iona, 16km)
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Alexander McDougald had settled here by 1859. |
23. Red Point East (Iona, 16km)
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24. South Cove (Iona, 16km)
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John McIvor had the first land grant here, in 1835. |
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25. St. Columba (Iona, 16km)
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Donald McNeil had a land grant here in 1851. |
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26. Upper Washabuck (Iona, 16km)
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Capt. Jonathan Jones who had settled at Baddeck in 1794 received a land grant here, moved here and built Victoria County's first sawmill. |
27. Washabuck Bridge (Iona, 16km)
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28. Washabuck Centre (Iona, 16km)
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This is said to be a Mi'kmaw word meaning ‘an angle of land formed between a river and a lake,' not ‘a money-laundering centre.' |
29. Washabuck River Nature Reserve (Iona, 16km)
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30. Baddeck (Baddeck, 13km)
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Baddeck is the shiretown of Victoria County. The name may derive from the Mi'kmaw words Bedek, Ebedek or Abadak, changed by early French settlers to Bedeque. |
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31. Baddeck Bay / Rear Baddeck Bay (Baddeck, 13km)
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Mark Crowdis and his son had land grants here in 1832. |
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32. Baddeck Bridge (Baddeck, 13km)
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Loyalist Lydia Wheeler had a land grant here in 1786. |
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33. Beinn Bhreagh (Baddeck, 13km)
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The name was chosen by Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) for his estate. The Mi'kmaq had called the place Megwatpatek, meaning ‘red head,' for the reddish-coloured rocks of a mountain. |
34. Big Baddeck (Baddeck, 13km)
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35. Big Farm (Baddeck, 13km)
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36. Big Harbour (Baddeck, 13km)
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There was a school here in 1851 and by 1865, a post office. |
37. Big Hill (Baddeck, 13km)
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38. Crescent Grove (Baddeck, 13km)
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39. Forks Baddeck (Baddeck, 13km)
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In Victoria County on the Baddeck River at its confluence with Peter's Brook 13 km N of Baddeck. First called Big Baddeck and settled by Loyalists in the late 1700s. |
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40. Glen Tosh (Baddeck, 13km)
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Settled in the 1830s and first known as Big Hill, later renamed to honour Rev. Abraham McIntosh (1820-1889), a Presbyterian minister here from 1856-89. |