Freshwater lakes are typically inland bodies of water, typically formed from depressions in the earth’s surface. They are bounded by sills, and usually fed by streams, brooks, or rivers from the surrounding region. Lakes provide great places to swim, fish, canoe, and generally relax.
Pictou County is dominantly made up of rural areas and contains an abundant amount of fresh water lakes and streams found all across its geography.
Lake Inventory Maps
The Province of Nova Scotia maintains fresh water lake inventory data on over 1000 lakes in Nova Scotia. From that they generate lake inventory maps, that display basic depth contours. Some of the maps also contain data on water quality, fish species, recent stocking history and other information.
Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture provides paper copies of lake inventory maps to the public (by request), and some of those maps have been made into PDF digital versions that available to download. Click here for details on how to obtain paper copies.
McKinnon Lake
McKinnon Lake 45.361753°N 62.528288°W – Map sheet 011E07 McKinnon Lake is located south of Sunny Brae, within the the Sunny Brae Game Sanctuary.
In 1930 the Canadian General Council of the Boy Scouts Association requested the area of land around McKinnon Lake to be set aside for the use of the Boy Scouts. This area became the Sunny Brae Game Sanctuary. Total area of the sanctuary is 513.4 hectares (58 hectares privately owned, with the rest owned by the Province of Nova Scotia).
The lake inventory map for this lake is shown below, and also available to download online (PDF).
[Source: Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables]
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