Knoydart, Nova Scotia
Knoydart Geography
- Official Name: Knoydart
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Geographic Feature Type: Community
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.718123, -62.233194
Knoydart Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E09
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 19
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: NS Land Grant map 098
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Maps: 1045700062200 (Mcarras Brook)
Knoydart is a rural coastal community located along NS route 245 (Sunrise Trail ) between Lismore and the eastern boundary between Pictou and Antigonish Counties. It was named after a place in Inverness-shire, Scotland, where the first settlers were from.
Ranald McDonald and Angus McDonald were settled here by 1806. Evan McGillivray built a cottage and other buildings near the shore by 1815. Ranald McDonald began erecting a grist oat shelling mill here about 1834. Robert S. Lowden had a flour mill here by 1837.
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson ]
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