Sheepherders Junction, Pictou County
Sheepherders Junction, Nova Scotia
Sheepherders Junction Geography
- Official Name: Sheepherders Junction
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Geographic Feature Type: Locality
- Affiliated Community: Lansdowne Station
- Latitude / Longitude:45.368045, -62.840119
Sheepherders Junction Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E07
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 11
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: Crown Land Grant Map 088
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Maps: 1045400062800 (Lansdowne Station), 1045350062800 (Sheepherders Junction)
- Other Maps:
About Lansdowne Station
Sheepherders Junction is a small rural locality in the community of Lansdowne Station situated near the boundary between Pictou County and Colchester County. It sits at the intersection of Route 289 and Dryden Lake Road, a crossroads that historically linked the Stewiacke Valley to the upland interior of Nova Scotia.
Although modest in size, Sheepherders Junction is geographically significant because it marks a transition zone between two counties and two landscape types: the agricultural Stewiacke Valley to the south and the more heavily wooded uplands of central Pictou County to the north. Today, it remains a quiet rural settlement, surrounded by mixed forest, small lakes, and backroads that connect to nearby localities such as Lansdowne, Trafalgar, and West River Station.
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Lansdowne Station Railroad History]
Lansdowne Station Maps
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