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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elgin (Scottish Gaelic: Eilginn) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in Pictou County. It is named after James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin , and the city of Elgin in Scotland. [ 1 ] 45°25′23.79″N 62°40′12.18″W / 45.4232750°N 62.6700500°W / 45.4232750; -62.6700500 ( Elgin, Nova
Eureka is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County 45°29′53″N 62°41′10″W / 45.49806°N 62.68611°W / 45.49806; -62.68611 ( Eureka, Nova History
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. 45°25′9.91″N 62°45′36.31″W / 45.4194194°N 62.7600861°W / 45.4194194; -62.7600861 ( Glengarry, Nova