Westville (Northumberland Shore, B0K 2A0)
1. Alma Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Settled by Scots around 1773 but not named until near the end of the Crimean War (1853–56). In 1855 the Allied armies of Britain, France and Turkey landed in the Crimea and defeated the Russians in the Battle of Alma River.
2. Concord (Mills) / Glengarry (Station) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
William McKay and Archibald Sutherland received grants here in 1813. In 1859 the postal way station here was Forks Middle River.
3. Gordon Summit Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for River Gordon, who lived in what was the community of Lairg in the 1870s. 'Summit' referred to the 500-foot (152.4 m) hill there. The area was settled in 1816.
4. Lansdowne Station Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Around 1803, emigrants from Lairg in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, began to locate here and they called the place New Lairg.
5. Pleasant Valley (New Glasgow) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Scots Thomas McKenzie, a blacksmith, and Alexander McDonald were both settled here before 1814.
6. Rocklin / White Hill (Pictou) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
A 'lyn” is a waterfall. The name was likely inspired by a rocky waterfall. Duncan and William Balfour settled around 1801.
7. Union Centre Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named because it was one of the main crossings over the Middle River and the junction of roads from East and West Rivers and roads leading up both sides of Middle River. John McLean and Kenneth Fraser had land grants here in 1783
8. Westville Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 396-1500 FAX: (902) 396-3986 - Leave a Public Review
Coal was discovered in quantity here in 1866 and that year the Acadian Coal Co. began mining operations.
  9. Fox Brook Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Hamilton Road Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Hazel Glen Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Lansdowne (New Glasgow) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Sheepherders Junction Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Sylvester Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Bridgeville / Charcoal (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began here around 1785 and the place was named for one of the principal bridges across the East River.
16. Churchville / Irish Mountain (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled in 1784 by John Robertson, who came from the Scottish Highlands, and first called Robertson's Mills. Later the community was renamed because it was the site of a church built before 1846.
  17. Coromonie (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Iron Rock (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
19. Kerrowgare (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is Gaelic for 'a short or scant one-fourth' and was applied to John A. MacDonald by people here to distinguish this family from other MacDonald families.
20. Mountville (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Much of the land here was granted to people who were settled near the East River by 1789. The place was first called Weaver's Mountain, but in 1884 residents voted to change the name to its present form.
21. Plymouth (New Glasgow) (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began in Irishtown in the 1770s. Colin McKenzie from Scotland had a grant here in 1773. In 1873 Irishtown and nearby Churchtown amalgamated as Plymouth, after Plymouth, England.
  22. Plymouth Park (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Riverton (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Fish Pools. Alexander McKay settled here in 1784. In 1877 the name changed to Riverton.
24. Stellarton (Stellarton, 4km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 752-2114 - Leave a Public Review
The first name of this community was Albion Mines, given by the General Mining Association for its collieries by 1827.
25. Linacy (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for mid-1800s settler Edward Linacy.
26. Mount William (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for William Porter or William Fraser, who both had land grants here in the very early 1800s..
27. New Glasgow / Dewar Hill / Lourdes (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 755-8333 - Leave a Public Review
Thomas Fraser is believed to have been the first settler, in 1784. Many of the early settlers were Scots and it was Donald McKay who suggested the name, after Glasgow in Scotland, in 1809.
28. Priestville (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for a local priest. Settlement began after Standard Clay Products Ltd. was established here in the early 1900s.
  29. Westville Road (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
30. Woodburn (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
John Wood settled here in 1810. 'Burn' is Scottish for brook.
  31. Woodburn Station (New Glasgow, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Abercrombie (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Believed to have been named for Gen. James Abercrombie of the First Battalion Royal Highlanders, killed at Bunker Hill in 1775.
  33. Anderson Mountain (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Black Point, New Glasgow (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Boat Harbour West 37 (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Chance Harbour (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name dates to at least 1829 and was likely given because navigation in its shallow, unprotected waters was risky. Land was granted to members of the disbanded 82nd Regiment in 1785 and settlement started in 1838.
  37. Chance Harbour Beach (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Egypt Road (Trenton) (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Fisher's Grant 24 (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  40. Fisher's Grant 24G (Trenton, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review