GREENVALE (P.)—This place was formerly known as "McIntosh Mills." It was changed to its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 1891.
GREENWICH (K.)—After the town on the Thames in Kent, England, noted as the great Observatory Town.
GRENADIER'S LEAP (C. B.)—Near Louisburg. Named after a Captain Grenadier, who led a party of English at the first siege of Louisburg, and who was supposed to have made a long, dangerous leap from his boat to the shore. History tells us it was a Captain Brooks who led the landing.
GREVILLE BAY (C.)—Named in honor of a former English Parliamentary General, Robert Greville, the second Lord Brooke 1794-1866.
GRINTON SETTLEMENT (A.)—Named after a first settler, James Grinton, who settled there in 1819. He was from Corstorphine, Scotland. (See Springfield).
GROSVENOR (G.)—Said to have been named by a. Mr. J. B Hadley of Mulgrave. Was first settled by families named Kennys and Tait (before 1800). Probably named after the Lord of that name or after Grosvenor Square.
GULLIVER'S HOLE (D.)—So named from a legend that a pirate named Gulliver once visited the place. Sometimes called Gulliver's Cove. First settled in 1780 by a William McDormand.
GUYSBOROUGH—First named "Chedabucto," when Sir Nicholas Deny located a fishing station there about 1635. Named in honor of Sir Guy Carleton (See Guysborough Township, Queens County). Sir Guy was first Baron Dorchester; at one time Governor of Canada; was a Loyalist leader and a great promoter of Loyalist settlements in Nova Scotia.
This County was named Sydney when St. Mary's Township was formed in 1818. The Townships are Guysborough, St Mary's and Manchester. The County contains 1656 square miles and was formed in 1836.
GUYSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP (Q.)—One of the two Township divisions of Queens County granted to Donald McPherson and one hundred and two others in the year 1784. They were disbanded soldiers who had served under Sir Guy Carleton during the Revolutionary War. They named the place "Guy's Borough in his honor. The second year after their settlement, the whole village was destroyed by fire. They then removed to Cape Canso. (See Guysborough).
