St. Pauls, Nova Scotia
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- Official Community Name: St. Pauls
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Populated Place
- Geographic Feature Type: Community
- Latitude / Longitude:45.420726, -62.570836
- NTS Map Number: 011E07
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas: Section 16
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map Number: Crown Land Grant Map 088
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map Number: 1045400062500 (Sunnybrae)
St. Pauls is a is a rural community in Pictou County located on the upper East River. It was named after the Presbyterian Church of St. Paul which was built in 1815.
James Fraser of the disbanded 84th regiment settled a little below St. Paul’s Church about 1784. Angus McQuarrie who possibly settled here about 1791 received a grant of land in 1828. Two other lots here were granted to Duncan Cameron in 1814 a nd to Donald Cameron in 1828.
A good source of local information for St.Pauls can be found at https://www.eastrivervalley.ca
[Source: Nova Scotia Place Names – T. Brown / Places of Nova Scotia – C. Bruce Fergusson ]
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