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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.

New Lairg

in Pictou County Communities

New Lairg is a rural community located on the upper Middle River south of New Gairloch and west of Concord. The area was settled around 1802 by immigrants from Scotland. It is believed to be named after Lairg, a village in Sutherland (Scotland).