Wilford (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0N 1Y0)
1. Coldstream (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Campbell family were the first settlers in the late 1700s. Rev. Robert Blackwood, the Presbyterian minister at nearby Gays River, named the place after Coldstream in Berwick-shire, Scotland.
2. Gays River (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq called the place Wisunawon, for 'beaver.' Believed named for a traveller named Gay who camped on the riverbank on his way from Halifax to Pictou. Settlement began in 1780.
  3. Indian Brook 14 (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. MacPhees Corner / Micmac (Shubenacadie) (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald, Evan and James McPhee received a 700-acre grant here in 1822.
  5. Micmac (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Mill Village (Shubenacadie) (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named for a mill built on Ryans Creek in the 1800s. William Wallace had settled by 1815.
7. North Salem (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Grants were made to John Dewel, William Delaney and Thomas Knowles in 1815.
8. Shubenacadie / Miller (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the place Segubunakade, where the ground nuts (potatoes) grow.' One of the earliest land grants here was to James and Gustavus Ducarete in 1763. Shubenacadie Wildlife Park here has been open to the public since 1954.
  9. Shubenacadie East (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Shubenacadie Wildlife Management Area (Shubenacadie, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Barneys Brook / Lantz (Lantz, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Dutch Settlement (Lantz, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
William Keys settled near here on the Shubenacadie River about 1786 and the place was first known as Key's. The present name was given because of the number of German (Deutsch) people who subsequently settled.
  13. East Milford (Lantz, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Grono Road (Lantz, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. Lantz (Lantz, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first land grant was in 1785. In 1898 Harvey and Croft Lantz started a brick and tile plant and the community that grew up around it was named for them.
  16. Belnan (Elmsdale, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Elmsdale (Elmsdale, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The area was settled before 1818 by John Archibald who called his farm Elmsdale Farm for the abundance of elm trees.
18. Nine Mile River (Elmsdale, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Aboriginal people called the Lake Nenadoogweboogwek, 'the trail route. In 1797 there was a settlement here of about 30 Highland Scots veterans. The lake used to be nine miles long. Now it is 14.4 km long.
  19. Nine Mile Woods (Elmsdale, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Admiral Rock (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The settlement dates from 1806 and was once noted for shipbuilding and the export of gypsum.
21. East Stewiacke (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Lower Stewiacke and Lower East Stewiacke. Anthony Marshall was one of the first settlers, in 1767.
22. Fort Ellis (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A fort was built here in 1761 and named for Hon. Henry Ellis, Capt.-Gen. and Governor-in-Chief of the province. The fort was abandoned and in ruins by 1767.
23. Lanesville (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The earliest land grant here was made to Benjamin Sibley in 1854. The community was named for an early settler called Lane.
  24. MacKay Siding (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Ramseys (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Riverside (Stewiacke) (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Roseland (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
28. South Branch (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The river was once called South Branch of the Stewiacke River and it was from this the community took its first name, South Bar of Sydney River.
29. Stewiacke (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 639-2231 - Leave a Public Review
The town took its name from the river, first named Esiktaweak, 'whimpering or whining as it goes along,' and the name for both gradually became corrupted to its present form.
30. West St. Andrews (Stewiacke, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Milltown. St. Andrews was the old name for Wittenburg and Milltown and eventually became known as West St. Andrews, retaining that name when St. Andrews became Wittenburg.
  31. Bennery Lake Nature Reserve (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Clattenburgh Brook Wilderness Area (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Devon (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mary Heffernan was the first land grantee in 1810.
34. Enfield (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1683 a town in CT was named Enfield for the borough in London, England. 180 years later in 1863, Thomas B. Donaldson of Enfield in the Connecticut River Valley suggested that this community be called Enfield.
  35. Frenchmans Road (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Goffs (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A former stopping place for stages bound for Guysborough. Settled in 1821 by Sebastian Richard and Theopoles Chamberlain in 1821, but named for 1846 land grantee William Goff.
37. Grand Lake (Enfield) (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place takes its name from the lake, the largest in the chain between Dartmouth and Shubenacadie. The Mi'kmaw name was Tulugadik for camping ground,' or 'the settlement.'
38. Horne Settlement (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was settled by Daniel and William Duffee in 1812 and named for the Horne family which settled in 1829.
  39. Montavista (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Oakfield (Enfield) (Enfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The community took its name from Oakfield, a model estate established in 1865 by Col. John Winburn Laurie (1835-1912).