Knoydart Brook is a small freshwater tributary located in the community, it originates in the neighbouring community of MacAras Brook (Antigonish County) and flows through the community of Knoydart north into the Northumberland Strait.
Knoydart Point is a small coastal headland found on the shores of the Northumberland Strait just off of the Sunrise Trail (NS‑245) in community of Knoydart .
Knoydart is a rural coastal community located along NS route 245 (Sunrise Trail ) between Lismore and the eastern boundary between Pictou and Antigonish Counties. It was named after a place in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
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).