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List of communities in Pictou County, Nova Scotia Many have Canadian Gaelic names. Communities are ordered by the highway on which they are located, whose routes start after each terminus near the largest community.
It is at the headwaters of the Middle River and on the Cape Breton and Northern Nova Scotia Railway line to Truro. It is now a small farming community but once had a railway station, post office, watering tank for steam locomotives supplied by water from the Middle River, and a school.
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Pictou (/ ˈ p ɪ k t oʊ / PIK-toh; Canadian Gaelic: Baile Phiogto [5] Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk: Piktuk [6]) is a town in Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Located on the north shore of Pictou Harbour , the town is approximately 10 km (6 miles) north of the larger town of New Glasgow .
Pictou Island receives no electrical power from the mainland. The residents supply their own energy with solar power, windmills and generators.There are no stores of any kind on the island, but residents can email or phone a grocery order into Sobeys (a national grocery chain), and the order will arrive by ferry or plane depending on the time of year.
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Watervale in Nova Scotia Watervale is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , located in Pictou County . 45°29′7.37″N 62°54′54.66″W / 45.4853806°N 62.9151833°W / 45.4853806; -62.9151833 ( Watervale, Nova
Avondale in Nova Scotia Avondale is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , located in Pictou County . 45°38′10.49″N 62°18′9.08″W / 45.6362472°N 62.3025222°W / 45.6362472; -62.3025222 ( Avondale, Nova