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Wallace Brook /  West Afton River / West Arm / West Havre Boucher / West Lakevale / West Lochaber / West River / Williams Point 

WALLACE BROOK, Antigonish County
    A brook which flows north east into South Lake, possibly named for William Wallace who received a grant of land of two hundred acres nearby.

WEST AFTON RIVER, Antigonish County
    A river which flows north into Afton River.
    See AFTON RIVER.

WEST ARM, Antigonish County
    See TRACADIE WEST ARM

WEST HAVRE BOUCHER, Antigonish County
    A settlement north east of Antigonish.
    See HAVRE BOUCHER

WEST LAKEVALE, Antigonish County
    A post office north of Antigonish, located west of the settlement of Lakevale. Known for many years as Lakevale Rear.
    Among the early grantees were Benjamin Sterns, Edward Blanchard, Miles Summers, Benjamin Ogden, George Brown, Ann McGie, and Angus McDonald.
    A school section was formed at Rear Lakevale and a school opened there in 1878. A new school was erected in 1930, but in 1958 the section was consolidated with Lakevale. See also Lakevale.

WEST LOCHABER, Antigonish County
    Settlement South-West of Antigonish so named because of its situation. See LOCHABER.

WEST RIVER, Antigonish County
    A river flowing east into Antigonish Harbour.
    The first white settler at the West River was Alexander Fraser who had emigrated from Scotland to Pictou, and who selected the spot for his farm about 1795 after travelling and camping with the Indians. About 1805 John Smith, a native of Moidart, Scotland settled with his wife on the lower part of the river, having travelled along the Gulf shore in a dugout canoe. Between the years 1810 and 1820 a number of older settlers from Antigonish Harbour and Williams Point removed to the West River to cut timber for the overseas timber trade and remained to farm the rich intervale lands. Nathan Pushee and Zephaniah Williams who had many descendants were among these.
    There was a school at the West River of Antigonish in 1827 and Edward Williams was teaching there in 1848. New school-houses were built at Middle West River and Upper West River about 1865. In 1905 the school sections Lower Glen Road, Salt Springs and West River were consolidated as West River section No. 47.
    The population in 1956 was 90.

WILLIAMS POINT, Antigonish County
    A settlement north-east of Antigonish and also a point on the south shore of Antigonish Harbor.
    Named for Zephaniah Williams, who had served as a sergeant in the Duke of Cumberland's Regiment during the American Revolution and was given a grant of land at Manchester in Guysborough County when the regiment disbanded. In 1785 he came to Antigonish and took up land at the place now known as Williams Point.
    In 1817 Neil MacKinnon was licensed to "keep school at Williams Point for instruction of youth".
    Shortly before World War I the Colonial Lumber Company operated an extensive woodworking factory employing some 125 men but closed the plant in the years following the war.
    The population in 1956 was152.