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 contains three different sets of data, displaying districts from years 2000 to 2008, 2008 to 2016, and 2016 to 2024.
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 1864 Pictou Map shown here is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
This 1864 Albion Mines Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
This 1864 Merigomish map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
This 1864 New Glasgow Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
The 1864 Hopewell Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
The 1864 Durham map shown here is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …