Photographs courtesy of Conrad Poirier

Gaspereaux Lake / Georges Bay / George, Cape / George's Lake / Georgeville / Georgeville Brook / Gillis Brook / Gillis Lake / Glassburn / Glen Alpine / Glen Bard / Glen Road / Glenroy / Glenwood / Gooseberry Island / Gorman's Corner / Greendale / Greendale Loch / Greenfield / Gregory Point

GASPEREAUX LAKE, Antigonish County
    A lake south-west of Antigonish, named for the French name of the "ale-wife." The school section was named Ashdale. In 1795 Alexander Fraser moved from Pictou to a clearing near Gaspereaux Lake.

GEORGES BAY, Antigonish County
    See CAPE GEORGE

GEORGE, CAPE, Antigonish County
    See CAPE GEORGE

GEORGE'S LAKE, Antigonish County
    See SOUTH LAKE

GEORGEVILLE, Antigonish County
    A settlement north west of Antigonish on Cape George, formerly known as Cape George Parish. Among early grantees were families of the surname Gillis, McDonald, McInnis, McNeil, McPherson and Smith.
    A new school-house was built at Georgeville in 1869. In 1903 Greendale school section was consolidated to Georgeville and in 1915 the back settlement of Cape George was added.
    The population in 1956 was 79.

GEORGEVILLE BROOK, Antigonish County
    A brook which flows north into Northumberland Strait.

GILLIS BROOK, Antigonish County
    A brook which flows west into Livingstone Cove formerly called Livingstone Brook, because it flowed through land granted to the Livingston family.

GILLIS LAKE, Antigonish County
    A lake south of Antigonish, named for the Gillis family who owned the surrounding land.
    Teresa McLaughlin was the schoolmistress in 1848 with sixteen pupils of the surname McLean and McDonald.

GLASSBURN, Antigonish County
    Former names were Black River and Beauly, but in 1891 the Legislature of Nova Scotia changed the name to Glassburn after a parish in Scotland.
    John Grant of Strathglass settled here about 1807.
    The school district borders on Guysborough County and its boundaries have been altered many times because of changing population. At least twelve priests obtained their early schooling there. The section was the birthplace of former School Inspector A. B. MacDonald and Rev. Dr. D. J. MacDonald, President of St. Francis Xavier University. The school was closed in 1953.
    In 1898 it had a cheese factory and a population of 125.

GLEN ALPINE, Antigonish County
    A settlement S. W. of Antigonish.
    Named by John MacMillan who settled there with his family about 1810 or perhaps a little earlier, after Glen Alpine and the lakes of Lochaber in Scotland. Among the early grantees were John and Samuel Cameron, Angus McDonald, Angus and Duncan Gillis and Angus McIsaac.
    In 1848 Angus Cameron was the teacher. It is now part of the North Lochaber school section.
    Thomas Cooper was appointed postal way office keeper on April 1, 1872.
    In 1898 it was a farming settlement with a population of 150.

GLEN BARD, Antigonish County
    Nine miles west of Antigonish town.
    In 1961 a cairn was erected here by the Antigonish Highland Society in memory of the Bard John Maclean, one of the most famous Gaelic poets who ever lived in Nova Scotia. He was born in the Island of Tiree, Scotland, and came with this family to this country in 1819, settling in the district.

GLEN ROAD, Antigonish County
    A settlement S. W. of Antigonish.
    A descriptive term, John Kell was the first to take up land there about 1817. He had been a sergeant in Lt. Col. Timothy Hierlihy's regiment and received a land grant in Dorchester Township for his military services. He lived in Antigonish, but about 1820 his sons, John, William and Angus began to work the land on the Glen Road, where Roderick Kennedy was already located.
    In 1848 Donald McGillivray was teaching twenty-one scholars of the surnames Cameron, Flinn, Debiassio, Gordon, Kell, Kennedy, McDonald, McGillivray, McLennan and McLellan.
    New school-houses were built at both Upper and Lower Glen Road about 1865. Upper Glen Road was consolidated with Lochaber while Lower Glen Road on the old stage coach road to Antigonish was consolidated with Salt Springs and West River.
    There was a postal way office from 1860 to 1867 and in 1868 C. McGillivray was the postmaster.
    In 1956 the population was 69.

GLENROY, Antigonish County
    Settlement S. E. of Antigonish.
    Named for a valley in Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scotland.
    First it was part of the St. Andrew's district. Among the grantees along the Dorchester-Guysborough Road in 1812 were Donald Chisholm, John and Angus McGillivray, William McKenzie and Donald Ross.

GLENWOOD, Antigonish County
    See KEPPOCH

GOOSEBERRY ISLAND, Antigonish County
    An island in Antigonish Harbour.
    A descriptive term.

GORMAN'S CORNER, Antigonish County
    See BUCKLANDS

GREENDALE, Antigonish County
    A locality N.W. of Antigonish.
    A descriptive name, known as Rear Malignant Cove, then as Greenfield, but the name was so common that it was changed to Greendale by the Legislature of Nova Scotia in 1886.
    Among the grantees were Alexander and Donald Chisholm, Colin McInnis, Malcolm McNeil and John McKinnon.
    The Greenfield school section was separated from Georgeville in 1879 and it was consolidated again in 1903. The section no longer exists so the locality is practically depopulated.

GREENDALE LOCH, Antigonish County
    A Lake N. W. of Antigonish near Greendale settlement.

GREENFIELD, Antigonish County
    See GREENDALE

GREGORY POINT, Antigonish County
    A point on the west shore of Antigonish Harbour.
    Perhaps named for Charles Currie Gregory, railway engineer and lawyer who at one time resided at Antigonish.