Miminegash (North Cape Coastal Drive, C0B 1S0)
1. Cape Gage - Leave a Public Review
The cape juts into Northumberland Strait N of Miminegash.
2. Ebbsfleet Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
P.O. 1894-1967 in Miminegash. Douglas 1925 suggests it is named for Ebbsfleet, Kent, England. Locally it has been suggested that the large fishing fleet and the fast ebb tides suggested the name.
3. Horse Head Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The headland extends into Northumberland Strait between Waterford and Pleasant View and was named in 1880 for its likeness to a horse's head.
4. Miminegash Your Host(s): Municipality, Phone: (902) 882-3223 - Leave a Public Review
9 mi NW of Alberton in Lot 2. Douglas 1925 suggests from M'negash, 'what is carried' or 'portage place'; Pacifique 1934 has Elmenigetjg, 'forward land'. P.O. 1861-1921 and from 1967; also P.O. Ebbsfleet 1894-1967.
5. St. Edward Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
8 mi SW of Tignish in Lot 2. P.O. 1909-1913.
6. St. Lawrence Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
7 mi NW of Alberton in Lot 3. Probably derived from the name of the gulf. School 1890.
7. DeBlois (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5 mi SW of Tignish in Lot 2. Named for George Wastie DeBlois, the proprietor's agent in Lot 2, who lived in Charlottetown, and was Provincial Secretary and Treasurer in the 1870s.
8. Lauretta (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5 mi NW of Alberton in Lot 3. P.O. 1897-1913. Possibly named for a teacher, such as Lauretta Nelligan, who was teaching at DeBlois Road in 1898.
9. Leoville (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4 mi SW of Tignish in Lot 1. Named for Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903). P.O. 1896-1914.
10. Palmer Road (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6 mi SW of Tignish in Lots 1 and 2. Named for two Palmer brothers who were proprietors of Lot 1. Schools were Palmer Road No. 1 and Palmer Road North. P.O. Palmer Road 1878-1913; also P.O. Palmer Road North 1912-1914
11. Pleasant View (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8 mi SW of Tignish in Lot 1. School district 1899. P.O. 1906-1913.
12. Profits Corner (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4 1/2 mi SW of Tignish in Lot 2. Meacham 1880 shows Wm. Profitt there. The current family name there is Profit.
13. St. Louis (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Municipality, Phone: (902) 882-2178 - Leave a Public Review
Village incorporated 1964, 6 mi NW of Alberton in Lot 2. School first called Smith Road for John Smith, who died c1888. Later it was Union Road, which was changed to St. Louis c1890. P.O. Kildare Station 1882-1896; P.O. St. Louis from 1896.
14. Waterford (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6 mi W of Tignish in Lot 1. School district 1889. P.O. Horse Head 1884-1885; P.O. Waterford 1885-1913
15. Woodvale (St. Louis, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5 mi N of Alberton in Lots 2 and 3. School district c1880. P.O. Woodville 1894-1919.
  16. Forestview (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
17. Haliburton (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5 mi w of O'Leary in Lot 7. Named by Robert Bruce Stewart, owner of Lot 7, for Robert Grant Haliburton (son of the famous writer) who was Stewart's arbitrator under the Land Purchase Act 1875. Noted in JHA 1879. P.O. 1904-1913.
18. Howards Cove (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Robert Howard came here from Ireland around 1819.
19. Howlan (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12 mi N of O'Leary in Lots 5 and 6. Named for George William Howlan (1835-1901), a member of the House of Assembly when the road was named c1870, and Lieutenant Governor 1894-1899. P.O. Mill River 1883-1912; P.O. Howlan 1912-1969.
  20. Kelly Road (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Knutsford (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
3 mi W of O'Leary in Lots 7 and 8. School district 1869. Possibly named for Knutsford, southwest of Manchester, England. P.O. O'Leary Road 1871-1913.
  22. Lot 6 (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Lot 7 (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. MacWilliams Cove (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
he cove is named for David MacWilliams who moved here from Scotland around 1830 and built flour, carding and saw mills.
25. Mount Royal (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
2 mi SW of O'Leary in Lots 8 and 9. Given in 1901 after Mount Royal at Montreal because the school was at a higher elevation than the surrounding country. P.O. 1904-1913.
26. O'Leary (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Municipality, Phone: (902) 859-3311 - Leave a Public Review
Village incorporated 1951 in Lot 6. Named for Michael O'Leary who lived on the west end of the road about 9 mi from the village in the early 1800s. He went to Ireland 1858 and then returned to North America, drowning accidentally at Halifax.
27. Springfield West (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6 mi W of O'Leary in Lots 7 and 8. Lake 1863 and Meacham 1880 Springfield, the school district name. P.O. Maddock 1876-1914, James Maddocks postmaster. Meacham 1880 lists Maddock P.O. at the farm of Jas. Mattix.
  28. Unionvale (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. West Cape (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9 mi W of O'Leary in Lots 7 and 8. P.O. West Cape c1852-1913. School district Greenhill before 1880.
  30. Woodstock (O'Leary, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Alberton (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Municipality, Phone: (902) 853-2720 - Leave a Public Review
Town incorporated 1913 in Lot 4. Named by Benjamin Rogers for Albert Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, who visited Charlottetown in 1860.
32. Alberton South (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Formerly called Lewis Town for Edward Lewis, proprietor of Lot 5, Hills Town for Lewis's agent, John Hill, and Northport. Possibly Cascumpec P.O.1839-1868 was here before Alberton developed as a railway centre c1872.
  33. Brooklyn (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Cascumpec (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5 mi S of Alberton on what was once called Cascumpec Road, Lots 5 and 6. School district was Oyster Creek, which became Alexandria c1895. P.O. Lot 6 1862-1914. Hill 1821 Williams Town. Bayfield 1851 French Village.
  35. Central Kildare (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Dock Corner (Creek, River) (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
At junction of Highways 2 and 12 and on Dock Creek, 12 mi w of Alberton, Lot 4. Meacham 1880 has Union for the school district there.
37. Fortune Cove (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5 mi SW of Alberton in Lot 5. P.O. c1889-1915.
38. Fox Island (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
At the mouth of Mill River, Lot 5. Named by Samuel Holland 1765 Fox Head, probably for Henry Fox (1705-1774) 1st Lord Holland or his brother, Stephen Fox-Strangways (1704-1776) 1st Earl of Ilchester.
39. Greenmount-Montrose (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Municipality, Phone: (902) 853-2235 - Leave a Public Review
3 mi S of Tignish in Lot 2. School 1878 Green Mount. P.O. c1895 1914. Formerly called Laricotier Road.
40. Huntley (Alberton, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
3 mi NW of Alberton in Lot 4. P.O. South Kildare c1899-1903.