This Caribou Island map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Browse the map online here, or to download a copy to use on your own device. (Also see the list of other Caribou Island maps …)
Hansons Cove is a small, sheltered inlet with a narrow entrance, located on the south side of Caribou Island between Mackenzie Point and Kenneth Point.
Caribou Island is located on the north side of Caribou Harbour along the Northumberland Strait. The Mi’kmaq name was “Komoogun-uk” meaning where birds are decoyed. William Rodgers from Ireland first settled here about 1803. A Lighthouse at Gull Point on the north east end of the Island, it was first built in 1868. The name refers to both a terrain feature and the community.
Find out more about Caribou Island’s history and geography …
The name Caribou was chosen because early settlers saw a herd of caribou out along the east point of Caribou Island which they then named Caribou Point.
Central Caribou is a rural community located along the south east side of Caribou Harbour, north west of the Town of Pictou.
Caribou Harbour is part of a larger geography that includes Caribou Island, Central Caribou, and Caribou River. It is historically significant to Pictou County and an important port offering ferry services, commercial fishing, recreational opportunities, and a notable maritime climate. Caribou Harbour was explored and described on early maps by Nicholas Denys in the 1660s.
Bayview is located south of Caribou, and north east of the Town of Pictou. In 1891 the Federal Government built a lobster hatchery here.
The 1879 Caribou River Map is one of the several maps included in the 1879 Historical Atlas of Pictou County. It shows the basic topographic features of the community along with with prominent land owners and locations of buildings. The section 2 map also contains the contains the Town of Pictou and the communities of Caribou Island, Toney River, and Poplar Hill.