Pictou County Maps:
Crown Land Grant Maps
Crown Land Grant Maps
The Nova Scotia Crown Land Information Management Centre manages a series of Crown Land Grant maps. These historic maps help provide a cartographic representation of what Nova Scotia parcel fabric originally looked like when the land was first granted (mostly to Scottish and Irish immigrants). The crown commenced issuing grants in 1730, but the majority of them were issued at various times during 1750 and 1850
Crown Land Grant maps are a great asset in genealogy research and help provide a graphic representation of the layout of the original land grants.
The Nova Scotia Crown Land Grant map series contains 138 maps in all, (each one is 26″ x 36″) with 14 of them that contain some Pictou County geography. Each map contains basic information that defines coastlines, waterways, transportation, and off course property lines with the names of the people who occupied a particular land grant.
Many edits were made to the maps by government staff over the years, which can be apparent in the various scans of the original maps.
Follow the links below for information on how to order copies of the Crown Land Grant maps, how to download digital copies (for free), and to browse the digital scans of the original maps right here on this site.
[source: Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources]
The following links bring you to Crown Land Grant Maps that contain Pictou County geography (… some of them only a small portion of Pictou County).