Mount Thom, Pictou County
Mount Thom, Nova Scotia
Mount Thom Geography
- Official Name: Mount Thom
- Gaelic Name: Beinn Thòmais
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Geographic Feature Type: Community
- Postal Code: B0K 1P0
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.752288, -63.124306
Mount Thom Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E10
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map:Section 9
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: NS Land Grant map 087
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map: 1045500062900 (Lower Mount Thom), 1045500063000 (Mount Thom), 1045450063000 (Kemptown), 1045450062900 (Watervale)
- Other:
About Mount Thom
Mount Thom is located on the Trans-Canada highway along the west boundary line between Pictou and Colchester Counties. It named after Thomas Troop of Truro who with Ephriam Howard (who Mount Ephriam was named after), walked through the woods to help the Philadelphia settlers (from the on the brig, Hope) get established in 1767 at West River. These were the first English speaking people to settle in Pictou County.
Settlement began late in 1801 on the Mount with some of the first settlers being Alexander Stewart, Alexander Chisholm, John and James Fraser, Hugh and Alexander Cameron. By 1806 there were at least fifteen settlers here.
A school houses were completed at Lower Mount Thom in 1879 and at Upper Mount Thom in 1891. A postal way office was established in 1851.
Farms and Farmers of Pictou County is a collection of articles written by by R. H. Ward between 1919 and 1922 that showcases some of the many farms and farmers in Mount Thom area during 1914-1922.
Population in 1956 for Lower Mount Thom was 125, and Upper Mount Thom was 57
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson ]
Places within the community of Mount Thom include:
- Botany Bay Lake
- Dalhousie Mountain
- Dalhousie Mountain Nature Reserve
- Grandfathers Lake
- Jacks Meadow
- Lower Mount Thom
- Mount Thom
- Mount Ephraim
- Upper Mount Thom
Roads located within the community of Mount Thom include:
- 5157 Road
- Back Road
- Bergman Lane
- Bezanson Lake Road
- Brookland Road
- Cove Road
- Fire Tower Road
- Glen Road
- Trans Canada Highway 104
- Highway 4
- MacGillivary Road
- Maxwell Road
- McWilliam Road
- Mount Thom Road
- Old Coach Road
- School Road
- Service Road PIC 104-01
- Service Road PIC 104-02
- Sunset Road
- Swamp Road
- Swamp Road Extension
Mount Thom Maps
1879 Mount Thom Map
2025 Mount Thom Map
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