Pleasant Valley, Nova Scotia
- Official Community Name: Pleasant Valley
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.537251, -62.788438
- NTS Map Number: 011E10
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas: Section 10
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map Number: NS Land Grant map 087
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map Number: 1045500062700 (Westville)
- Other Maps
Pleasant Valley is a rural community located south of the Trans-Canada Highway, west of Union Centre. The name is descriptive.
Thomas McKenzie, a blacksmith from Gairloch, Ross-shire, Scotland, 1805 and Alexander McDonald were both settled here by 1814. Walter Ross was settled in this area by 1815. John McKenzie along with Walter Ross and Thomas McKenzie received a grant of land here in 1815.
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 Pleasant Valley area during 1914-1922.
Population in 1956 was 54.
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson ]
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