Tag Archive for: 1792

Marshville

Marshville is a rural coastal community located NS Highway 6 (Sunrise Trail), south west of River John. Settlement was begun in this area about 1792 by four sons of David Langile. Rushtons Beach Provincial Park offers sheltered picnic areas, protected salt marches, board walks, and a beautiful beach with large sandbars at low tide.

Fox Brook

in Pictou County Communities, Brook, Hydrography

Fox Brook is a small rural community located, west of Eureka, and north west of Hopewell. Country music singer George Canyon grew up in Fox Brook. It is also the name of a brook that flows from the Fox Brook area north between the towns of Stellarton and Westville and eventually into the Middle River of Pictou.