Lamèque (Acadian Coast)
1. Haut-Lamèque Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is Amerindian from the Micmac Elmugwadasik, a description of the 94 tidal river 'is turned to one side.'
2. Lamèque Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (506) 344-3222 FAX: (506) 344-3266 - Leave a Public Review
The name is Amerindian from the Micmac Elmugwadasik, a description of the tidal river 'is turned to one side.' The name applies to the island, the town and Haut ('upper') Lameque.
3. Petite-Lamèque Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is Amerindian from the Micmac Elmugwadasik, a description of the tidal river 'is turned to one side.'
4. Pointe-Alexandre Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place was named for George Alexandre from Jersey, who in the early 1800s was manager of the William Fruing and Company fish packers.
5. Pointe-Canot Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place is named for an Indian canoe found on the shore. In 1816 on a land petition the place was noted as Barachois de Pointe-Canot.
  6. Sainte-Cécile Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Cap-Bateau (Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Translated from French the place name means 'boat cape.' A post office was established here in 1910.
  8. Coteau Road (Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. Pigeon Hill (Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Historian M. H. Perley noted in 1850 in his Reports on the sea and river fisheries of New Brunswick 2nd edition,
  10. Saint-Raphaël-sur-Mer (Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
11. Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël (Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 5km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (506) 344-3210 - Leave a Public Review
The community was named Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer when the post office opened here in 1947. Saint Raphael was first known as Hachi when the post office opened in 1915.
  12. Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer (Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
13. Chiasson (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The place was first known as Village-des-Abrams for Abram Chiasson, but when the post office opened in 1908, postmaster Dositté had the name changed to Chiasson.
14. Haut-Shippegan (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name originates with the Micmac Sepaguncheech which has been translated as 'duck passage,' reference to a migratory flight path.
15. Pointe-Brûlé (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is French for Burnt Point. In 1968 the name was changed from Pointe Brule to Pointe-Brûlé.
  16. Pointe-Sauvage (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Portage de Shippagan (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Savoy Landing (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
When the post office opened in 1903 the place was named to honour Joseph Savoy, an early setter from Bonaventure, Quebec.
19. Shippagan (Shippagan, 11km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (506) 336-3900 FAX: (506) 336-3901 - Leave a Public Review
The name derives from the Micmac Sepaguncheech for 'duck passage,' a migration shortcut between the islands. It is shown on a 1755 map as Chipagan. Shippagan also applies to Shippagan Bay and Shippagan Gully.
  20. Baie de Petit-Pokemouche (Le Goulet, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Le Goulet (Le Goulet, 13km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (506) 336-3272 FAX: (506) 336-3281 - Leave a Public Review
The place is shown on an 1842 map as New Jerusalem, but the post office opened in 1905 as Shippigan Gully. In 1955 the post office name changed to Shippegan Gully and in 1955 the name was changed to Le Goulet.
  22. Grande-Plaine (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Miscou Centre (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Miscou Grande Plaine Protected Natural Area (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Miscou Harbour (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
26. Miscou Lighthouse (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Th Lighhouse is the most northerly point in the province. Miscou Centre, Miscou Gully, Miscou Harbour, Miscou Lighthouse and Miscou Plains all take their name from the 64 sq km island which Champlain noted on his 1623 map as I de Miscou.
27. Petit-Shippagan (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name derives from the Micmac Sepaguncheech for 'duck passage,' a migration shortcut between the islands. Shippagan applies to Shippagan Island, Bay, Gully and the town 21 km SW of here.
28. Petite-Rivière-de-l'Ile (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1897 the post office opened here as Island River. In 1950 the name was changed to French, Petite-Riviöre-de-l'lle 'little river of the island,' and in 1959 the name was corrected to Petite-Riviére-de-l'lle.
  29. Wilson Point (Miscou, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Bas-Caraquet (Bas-Caraquet, 16km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (506) 726-2776 - Leave a Public Review
  31. Middle Caraquet (Bas-Caraquet, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Morais (Bas-Caraquet, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Pokesudie (Bas-Caraquet, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is believed to come from the Micmac Booksadadek, meaning 'narrow passage between rocks,' with reference to Petite Passe.
  34. Four Roads (Inkerman Ferry, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
35. Inkerman (Inkerman Ferry, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The community is named for a ridge near Sebastopol, the location of a major battle in the Crimean War (1853-56). In the battle the Russian army was repulsed by Anglo-French forces. The post office opened here in 1885.
  36. Inkerman Ferry (Inkerman Ferry, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Inkerman Migratory Bird Sanctuary (Inkerman Ferry, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Pokemouche 13 (Inkerman Ferry, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review