Pictou County is split into 12 different municipal districts. here is an online interactive map that spatial depicts where each municipal district is located, who the elected Councilor for each region is, etc. It Three different sets of data, displaying districts from years 2000 to 2008, 2008 to 2016, and 2016 to 2024.
Merigomish is a rural community located on the south side of Merigomish Harbour between Egerton and Lower Barneys River along the Sunrise Trail. Early one it was known as Malegonish, originating from the Mi’kmaq word “Mallegomichk” (meaning the merrymaking place). This was one of the popular Mi’kmaq gathering areas.
Egerton is a rural community located between Sutherlands River and Merigomish along NS Route 245 (Sunrise Trail). It may have been named after Francis Egerton, third Duke of Bridgewater, known as the Father of British Inland Navigation. Egerton was also the name of one of the three townships that when Pictou County was subdivided into in 1806. (the other two being Pictou and Maxwelton).
Sometime during the early 19th century, a Captain T. Egerton obtained a reservation of five hundred acres near the Egerton-Maxwellton township line. The land was granted in 1765 but settlement probably began in the 1780’s or 1790’s.
St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church was built in 1865.
Population in 1956 was 103.
Egerton was also the name of one of the three townships that when Pictou County was subdivided into in 18067 (the other two being Pictou and Maxwelton).
The 1879 Merigomish Map (sections 21 and 24) 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. It also contains the communities of Egerton, Piedmont, Telford, French River, Meiklefield, and Woodfield.
Ambrose F. Church was commissioned by the Province to create a series of detailed color maps, one for each of Nova Scotia’s counties. In 1864. after completing his detailed map of Halifax, he completed the topographical township map of Pictou County. The map includes …
In this 1878 Pictou County map, you can see that the county was once divided into 3 regions: Pictou (western portion), Egerton (central region), and Maxwelton (eastern portion).
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Crown Land Grant Map 093 provides a cartographic representation of what the parcel fabric originally looked like when the land was first granted. It includes the towns of New Glasgow and Trenton, as well as several communities such as Thorburn, Pine Tree, McPersons Mills, Egerton, Merigomish, Kenzieville, and Barneys River.
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The topographic map 011E09 includes several communities such as Lismore, Merigomish, Egerton, Sutherlands River, French River, Avondale, Kenzieville, and Marshy Hope. … Find out how to download or view this map online …