Marshy Hope, Nova Scotia
- Official Community Name: Marshy Hope
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.587691, -62.198761
- NTS Map Number: 011E09
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas: Section 20
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map Number: NS Land Grant map 094
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map Number: 1045550062200 (Barneys River Station)
- Other Maps:
Marshy Hope, rural community, located along NS Route 4, near the boundary between Pictou and Antigonish counties. James Mappel settled here about 1815.
His neighbors advised him to leave the marshy place because the frost would hurt his crops, but he always replied, “I hope it will improve”. Whereupon his neighbors remarked that his hope was a marshy hope. This is reputedly the origin of the name.
Between 1830 and 1840 others from Sutherlandshire and Pertshire, Scotland, arrived and took up land here. These included John McDonald, Duncan McDonald, James Forbes, William Sutherland,
Donald Bruce, James Leadbetter, John Bannerman, Donald McKay, Robert Ferguson and others.
The Extension Railway was built through here in August, 1879
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson ]
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