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Aerial view of Pictou Island. Pictou Island is a Canadian island located in the Northumberland Strait approximately seven kilometres (four nautical miles) north of Nova Scotia and nineteen kilometres (ten nautical miles) south of Prince Edward Island. The island has a length of 9.5 km (5.9 mi), a width of 2.5 km (1.6 mi) and a total area of ...
Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was established in 1835, and was formerly a part of Halifax County from 1759 to 1835. It had a population of 43,657 people in 2021, a decline of 0.2 percent from 2016.
The Municipality of Pictou County is a county municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It provides local government to about 21,000 rural residents of Pictou County , [ 1 ] but excludes the towns of New Glasgow , Stellarton , Pictou , Westville and Trenton that are administered by their own town councils.
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.
corner of Church Street and Willow Street Pictou NS 45°40′37″N 62°42′56″W / 45.677°N 62.7155°W / 45.677; -62.7155 ( Pictou Academy National Historic Site of
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.
Route 376 is a collector road in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located in Pictou County and connects West River at Trunk 4 with Pictou at Highway 106 . It was originally part of Trunk 6 until 1970
The only populated reserve of the Pictou Landing First Nation is named Fisher's Grant 24 and is located 3 km north-east of Pictou Landing. The Nova Scotia Railway reached here in 1867. It was the main route for travelers to Upper Canada in the ice-free months until the opening of the Intercolonial Railway in 1876.