Browns Point, Nova Scotia
Browns Point Geography
- Official Name: Browns Point
- Gaelic Name: Rudha a’ Bhrùnaich
- Mi’kmaq Name: Ne’iknejk – meaning at the opening, where it begins to show
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Affiliated Town (Community): Town of Pictou
- Geographic Feature Type: Neighbourhood
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.671619, -62.732722
Browns Point is both the name of a terrain feature and a Neighbourhood in Pictou County
A Point is a land feature that extends into a body of water, typically smaller and less prominent extension of land compared to a cape . Sometimes used interchangeably with “headland,” but it generally implies a smaller and less significant coastal projection.
- Official Name: Browns Point
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Terrain Feature
- Geographic Feature Type: Point
- Affiliated Town (Community): Town of Pictou
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.67031, -62.737602
Browns Point Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E10
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 2
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: NS Land Grant map 086
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Maps: 1045650062700 (Pictou)
About Browns Point
[photo source: Pictou Historical Photograph Society]
[photo source: McCulloch Genealogy Centre]
Browns Point, is a part of the Town of Pictou is located just west of the north end of the Pictou Causeway. This area is where the ship Hector, the first ship from Scotland landed in 1773.
Brown Point was named after an early settler, John Brown. It was a popular place with many cottages along the water.
It was also once the location of the end of a large railway crossing that crossed from Loch Broom over to Pictou. The railway station was town down about 1958, but the bridge remained for many years later. The bridge was eventually destroyed in a fire in 1993.
The Trans Canada Trail goes through this area.
[Sources: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Mi’kmawPlaceNames.ca / NovaStory.ca / McCulloch Genealogy Centre / Pictou Historical Photograph Society ]
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