Pictou (Northumberland Shore, B0K 1H0)
1. Caribou Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Southern terminus of the ferry linking Nova Scotia with Wood Island, Prince Edward Island, and the ferry to Pictou Island.
2. Granton Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for a seaport on the Firth of Forth. The site was granted to Archibald Allerdice in 1784.
3. Haliburton Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Town Gut because the plot of land laid out for settlers from Philadelphia was at the mouth of the creek opposite Brown's Point.
4. Loch Broom Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
It was named after Loch Broom in Rosshire, Scotland, by Alexander Cameron, who came to Pictou in the Hector in 1773.
5. Pictou Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 485-4372 - Leave a Public Review
The name comes from the native word Piktook, an explosion or fire.' Nicholas Denys (1598-1688) shows it on his 1660 map as La Rivière de Pictou. For a time it was called New Paisley.
6. Sundridge Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First considered to be part of Scotch Hill and likely named after Sundridge, Kent, in England. Lauchlin McQuarrie was settled here before 1806.
7. Three Brooks Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mrs. Jane Cochrane of Halifax had a land grant here in 1809.
8. Waterside Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Alexander, Kenneth, Neil and Roderick McKenzie and Donald McLeod came from Scotland in 1803 and settled here in 1806.
  9. Bay View, Pictou Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Braeshore Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Caribou Island Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Caribou River Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Caribou Rivers Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Caribou-Munroes Island Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Central Caribou Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. MacKays Corner Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Waterside Beach Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Abercrombie (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Believed to have been named for Gen. James Abercrombie of the First Battalion Royal Highlanders, killed at Bunker Hill in 1775.
  19. Anderson Mountain (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Black Point, New Glasgow (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Boat Harbour West 37 (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Chance Harbour (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name dates to at least 1829 and was likely given because navigation in its shallow, unprotected waters was risky. Land was granted to members of the disbanded 82nd Regiment in 1785 and settlement started in 1838.
  23. Chance Harbour Beach (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Egypt Road (Trenton) (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Fisher's Grant 24 (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Fisher's Grant 24G (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Frasers Mountain (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Greens Point (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Hillside (Trenton) (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Kings Head (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Little Harbour (New Glasgow) (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaw name was Mumbegweek, ‘little harbour.' A few Acadians lived here in the early 1700s.
  32. Marshalls Crossing (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Melmerby Beach Provincial Park (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Pictou Landing / Glenfalloch (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Powells Point Provincial Park (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
36. Trenton (Trenton, 9km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 752-5311 FAX: (902) 752-0090 - Leave a Public Review
The town site was granted to James Heaton in 1786. Beginning in 1881 a succession of glass companies ated here until about 1920. In 1882 Harvey Graham proposed the be named after Trenton, capital of NJ.
37. Linacy (New Glasgow, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for mid-1800s settler Edward Linacy.
38. Mount William (New Glasgow, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for William Porter or William Fraser, who both had land grants here in the very early 1800s..
39. New Glasgow / Dewar Hill / Lourdes (New Glasgow, 11km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (902) 755-8333 - Leave a Public Review
Thomas Fraser is believed to have been the first settler, in 1784. Many of the early settlers were Scots and it was Donald McKay who suggested the name, after Glasgow in Scotland, in 1809.
40. Priestville (New Glasgow, 11km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for a local priest. Settlement began after Standard Clay Products Ltd. was established here in the early 1900s.