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38-542: Eastern Shore may refer to: Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia) , a region Eastern Shore (electoral district) , a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia Eastern Shore of Maryland , a region Eastern Shore of Virginia , a region Eastern Shore (Alabama) , of Mobile Bay USS  Eastern Shore  (ID-3500) , a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 Topics referred to by

76-531: A call center in New Glasgow. One of the largest employers in the area is Sobeys. The company started in Stellarton, where its headquarters is still located today. Tourism is an important part of the economy during the summer. In 2006 employed 1,200 people and brought 45 million dollars to the economy. Two provincially-owned museums operate within the county, Stellarton's Nova Scotia Museum of Industry, and

114-454: A population of 20,676 living in 9,146 of its 11,026 total private dwellings, a change of −0.1% from its 2016 population of 20,692 . With a land area of 2,795.08 km (1,079.19 sq mi), it had a population density of 7.4/km (19.2/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend Mother tongue (2011) Ethnic Groups (2006) Pictou County is wholly within the federal electoral district of Central Nova . Since

152-597: A population of 43,657 living in 19,735 of its 22,410 total private dwellings, a change of −0.2% from its 2016 population of 43,748 . With a land area of 2,844.1 km (1,098.1 sq mi), it had a population density of 15.4/km (39.8/sq mi) in 2021. Forming the majority of the Pictou County census division, the Municipality of the County of Pictou, including its Subdivisions A, B, and C, had

190-1030: A retail space for artists and musicians to sell their work. Museums include the Northumberland Fisheries Museum, the Hector Heritage Quay, and the McCulloch House Museum in Pictou, the Pictou County Military Museum in Westville, the Carmichael House in New Glasgow, and the Museum of Industry in Stellarton. Pictou County is also known for the regional pizza variant known as Pictou County Pizza , which can be shipped to former residents living across Canada through UPS, and

228-402: Is a private commercial airport owned and operated by Sobeys . Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits: Pictou County is served by the weekly newspapers The News and The Pictou Advocate . Pictou County has two locally based radio station is CKEC-FM & CKEZ-FM . A sports and recreation paper

266-699: Is called the Historic Sherbrooke Village and it depicts life around the 1900s in the village. The longest beaches on the Eastern Shore are Lawrencetown Beach, in Lawrencetown , Martinique Beach, near Musquodoboit Harbour and Taylor Head Beach , located in Spry Bay , within the boundaries of Taylor Head Provincial Park . Roads All schools within the Eastern Shore, except St. Mary's Education Centre , are administered by

304-422: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia) Canso, along with Annapolis Royal, Halifax, and Lunenburg, are some of North America's earliest settlements. The Battle at Jeddore (1722) is one of the many historic events to occur along the shore. A railway had been proposed during the 1880s to run east from Dartmouth, however

342-676: Is distributed monthly through the mail at no charge. There are two performance spaces in the county: the deCoste Centre in Pictou and Glasgow Square in New Glasgow. Both host local musicians and events, including the Festival of Summer Sounds series at the deCoste and the New Glasgow Riverfront Jubilee in August at the Glasgow Square. Many of the towns and villages host their own parades and events throughout

380-483: Is most heavily used during the winter months, when the Northumberland Strait port of Pictou is iced-in and industrial shippers from Pictou County truck shipments to Sheet Harbour. A large industrial greenhouse , sawmill operation , and wharf , are also located on site. Beaver Harbour was home to a trans-Atlantic cable station which was operated by Teleglobe , but is now decommissioned. Most of

418-464: Is only 88.11% of the census population in 1991. It is the sixth most populous county in Nova Scotia. The origin of the name "Pictou" is obscure. Possible Mi'kmaq derivations include "Piktook" meaning an explosion of gas, and "Bucto" meaning fire, possibly related to the coal fields in the area. It might also be a corruption of Poictou ( Poitou ), a former province of France. Nicolas Denys named

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456-531: Is the Chedabucto Bay, at the eastern end of the Eastern Shore. There also numerous, albeit much smaller, bays, harbours and other coastal features along the Eastern Shore, including but not limited to: Musquodoboit Harbour , Jeddore Harbour, Ship Harbour, Sheet Harbour, Country Harbour, Tor Bay and Guysborough Harbour. The Eastern Shore is a scenic, yet sparsely settled area, hosting dozens of small fishing harbours and communities; in recent decades

494-704: The General Mining Association . After surveying mines in Nova Scotia, they chose to start at the East River of Pictou and in the summer of 1827 they began operations there. By the end of the year the first steam engine in Nova Scotia was operating at Albion Mines . In 1839 the first locomotive in Canada to run on iron rails, the Samson , was put into service at Albion Mines. It is the oldest surviving locomotive in Canada. Pictou County includes

532-695: The Halifax Regional Centre for Education . St. Mary's Education Centre is administered by the Strait Regional School Board . Elementary Schools High Schools Junior High Schools There are nine schools along the Eastern Shore. Most are located in the larger communities. and Saint Mary's Education Centre/Academy (SMECA), in Sherbrooke. A new school in Sheet Harbour is currently being built in

570-664: The Hope in May 1767, and arrived at Pictou Harbour in June. In 1770 there were 120 settlers living in Pictou, of which 93 were American, 18 were Irish, five were Acadian, and two each were Scottish and English. Pictou was a receiving point for many Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Consequently,

608-526: The harbour La rivière de Pictou in the 1660s. The area of the modern Pictou County was a part of the Miꞌkmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki ( mi'gama'gi ) at the time of European contact. In the early 1600s France claimed the area as a part of Acadia . By the 1760s, small French settlements existed along the coast in the eastern part of the county near the mouth of the French River . The largest of these

646-571: The Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia consists of sandstone and shale bedrock, forming rolling hills, which are up to 75 metres (246 ft) in elevation and many offshore islands, of which two of the largest are Wolfes Island and Barren Island. The Eastern Shore is heavily forested. Approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) inland from the coast is the Eastern Shore Granite Ridge. This is an expansive area of 350-million-year-old granite bedrock. Several major rivers flow into

684-589: The Liscombe Lodge resort and conference centre in Liscomb Mills and the Historic Sherbrooke Village in Sherbrooke . The area between Cape Breton -and- Dartmouth is sparsely populated, however, there are more than 300 communities along the Eastern Shore, which vary in size. The decline in the fishing industry has meant an outflow of people to larger urban areas and other fishing villages in

722-423: The McCulloch House Museum in Pictou. Rail car manufacturer Trenton Works was closed in 2007 when owners Greenbrier moved production to Mexico. There are 2,400 small and medium-sized businesses that collectively generate more than 15,000 jobs. The Pictou County Chamber of Commerce is a business advocacy group that speaks as a united voice on behalf of the business community. Two highways designated as part of

760-742: The coast along the Eastern Shore, including the Musquodoboit River , which flows into the Musquodoboit Harbour , Jeddore Harbour, Tangier River, which flows from Tangier Grand Lake to the Atlantic, West River Sheet Harbour, which flows into the Northwest Arm of Sheet Harbour , as well as East River Sheet Harbour into the Northeast Arm. The St. Mary's River also flows into the Atlantic, passing through

798-624: The community of Sherbrooke . There are many lakes, ponds, flowages and other types of freshwater bodies along the Eastern Shore. The largest of which are Porters Lake , which flows almost directly into the Atlantic Ocean, Lake Charlotte , which flows into Ship Harbour via the Ship Harbour River and Tangier Grand Lake , which flows into the Atlantic Ocean via the Tangier River. The largest water formation by far

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836-408: The county on January 15, 1990, following nationwide budget cuts. Maritime Bus provide motor coach service to New Glasgow. Northumberland Ferries Limited operates a seasonal passenger-vehicle ferry service from Caribou, Nova Scotia, to Wood Islands , Prince Edward Island . A separate passenger-only ferry service is also operated seasonally from Caribou to Pictou Island . Trenton Aerodrome

874-531: The early 1900s as Nova Scotia entered the industrial revolution . Tourism is becoming an increasingly active industry along the Eastern Shore. There is a Fisherman's Life Museum in Jeddore Oyster Ponds . There is trout fishing and Atlantic salmon serves as a sport in rivers along the coast. In Eastern Passage , there is a Fishermen's Cove tourist attraction with a few stores. There is an interactive museum located in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia . It

912-722: The electoral district was reformed in 2004, only two MPs have held the office. Currently, the county is represented federally by the Liberal Party. The seat is held by Liberal MP Sean Fraser , who was elected in 2015. Pictou County is divided into three provincial electoral districts, namely Pictou Centre , Pictou East and Pictou West . All three are currently held by PC MLAs in the Nova Scotia Legislature . The towns of New Glasgow , Stellarton , Pictou , Westville and Trenton each have their own town councils. The Municipality of Pictou County serves

950-530: The former site of Duncan MacMillan High School and Sheet Harbour Consolidated School. It is a merge of the schools Duncan MacMillan High School , Sheet Harbour Consolidated School, Lakefront Consolidated Elementary and Eastern Consolidated School.There is a possibility that both schools in Sheet Harbour, as well as Lakefront Consolidated School in Tangier, will be closed and merged into one P-12 school in

988-616: The national Trans-Canada Highway system provide the only controlled-access roads in the county. They are Highway 104 , which traverses the county from west to east, and Highway 106 the short north–south spur to the Northumberland Ferries Limited terminal at Caribou . The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway is a freight line connecting Truro to Sydney , with spurs at Stellarton and Trenton serving local industries such as Trenton Generating Station . Via Rail Canada abandoned passenger rail service in

1026-428: The next few years. 44°55′N 62°20′W  /  44.917°N 62.333°W  / 44.917; -62.333 Pictou County 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. Furthermore, its 2016 population

1064-621: The present alignment of Trunk 7 . During the 1980s-90s, when the rail line was abandoned, the controlled-access Nova Scotia Highway 107 was built from the Burnside Industrial Park in Dartmouth to Musquodoboit Harbour , to assist commuters and truck-traffic that travels to rural Municipal Halifax and to Highway 102 via Highway 118 . A 1990s regional development project saw the port of Sheet Harbour redeveloped into an important regional deep-water port. The facility

1102-413: The province. Guysborough and Canso , with populations of 922 and 820 respectively, are the largest communities. Although these are not all of the communities in the Eastern Shore, these are some of the most populated. Most of the economy along the Eastern Shore is based around fishing, forestry and tourism, with an industrial port in Sheet Harbour as well. Numerous lumber mills operated here during

1140-541: The region has become home to a growing number of cottages and recreational properties, given the number of unspoiled sandy beaches and dramatic coastlines. The shore also hosts the majority of Nova Scotia's small islands. The tourism industry is concentrated near popular beaches and provincial parks such as Lawrencetown, Clam Harbour, and Martinique, as well as the centrally-located service communities of Musquodoboit Harbour , Sheet Harbour , Sherbrooke , Canso , Guysborough and Mulgrave . Popular tourist attractions include

1178-601: The remaining rural areas, including Pictou Island. Amalgamation of these six municipal units is occasionally considered. Pictou County District Planning Commission provides planning, development and waste disposal services to all the communities in the county. Pictou Landing First Nation has reserves at Pictou Landing, Fisher's Grant and Merigomish Harbour. Resource based industries include coal mining, forestry, fishing, and agriculture. Manufacturing industries include Michelin Tire, Northern Pulp and Scotsburn Dairy. Web.Com operate

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1254-561: The sparse settlement and lack of industrial economic activity saw the railway line swing north up the Musquodoboit River at Musquodoboit Harbour to access the fertile agricultural district of the Musquodoboit Valley . Another railway project was proposed to run between Pictou and the village of Guysborough and on to Canso during the age of sail , when Can-so rivalled Halifax as the most important first port of call in Nova Scotia for westbound trans-Atlantic vessels, as Canso

1292-450: The town's slogan is "The Birthplace of New Scotland "; the first wave of immigrants from Scotland is acknowledged to have arrived on September 15, 1773, on the Hector . Coal was first discovered in Pictou County in 1798. A number of different individuals and companies were involved in the nascent coal industry; however, in 1825 the majority of mining rights in Nova Scotia was obtained by

1330-474: The towns of New Glasgow , Stellarton , Pictou , Westville and Trenton . It is bounded by the Northumberland Strait , Antigonish County , Guysborough County and Colchester County . Pictou Harbour and its three rivers played a vital role in the early days of settlement, as a port of entry, a means of transport and for the export of lumber and coal. As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Pictou County had

1368-531: The year. Read By The Sea is an annual literary festival held in the village of River John. The New Scotland Days Festival in Pictou each September is a celebration of the county's Scottish heritage. Pictou also hosts the Lobster Carnival every July since 1934. It was voted the best festival in Canada. New Glasgow's Art at Night is an annual one night art event in downtown New Glasgow. Eventide Art Hub in New Glasgow hosts an Art Gallery, Artist Studios, and

1406-707: Was on the Big Island at Merigomish . By the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763, and the Expulsion of the Acadians , these had been abandoned. Pictou came under the control of Britain in 1763 after the French and Indian War . In 1765 the first British land grants were issued, including a grant to the Philadelphia Company. A number of families from that company left Philadelphia aboard

1444-487: Was roughly the same distance by rail from the New Brunswick –Nova Scotia border as Halifax. A rail line was eventually graded and bridges constructed between Pictou and Guysborough during the 1930s, however, tracks were never laid and the project was abandoned, leaving most of the Eastern Shore without rail service. During the post- World War II period, the provincial government upgraded local roads, that resulted in

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