Kirkmount, Nova Scotia
Kirkmount Geography
- Official Name: Kirkmount
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Geographic Feature Type: Community
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.523357, -62.574379
Kirkmount Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E10
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 15
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: NS Land Grant map 093
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map: 1045500062500 (Mclellans Mountain)
- Other Maps:
Kirkmount is a rural community located south east of McLellans Brook. It was so named because of a church that was built here. At one time it was considered to be part of the community of McLellans Mountain.
James Fraser from Inverness-shire settled here about 1802. Grants of land were given to Alexander Cameron in 1816, Donald Mclntosh in 1816, Donald Fraser, who emigrated to this country in 1801, in 1816; John Fraser who came from Inverness-shire in 1812, in 1819; and to Duncan Ferguson who came from Scotland.
Population in 1956 was 67.
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson ]
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