Salt Springs is rural a area is located on the upper West River near the foot of Mount Thom. Saline springs bubbling up from the foot of Mount Thom inspired the name. Between 1813 and 1823, attempts were made to recover some of this salt.
Lovat is a rural community located south east of Salt Springs between the Middle and West Rivers. It was named after a place in Inverness, Scotland, (the seat of the Fraser clan).
Donald Cameron and John McKenzie settled here in 1810. Grants of land were made to Roderick McKenzie in 1813, to John McKay in 1814, to James Fraser in 1815 and to Hector McKenzie in 1815.
Limerock is a rural community located along the West River, between Greenhill and Salt Springs. The name was to the area after limestone was discovered there.
The 1879 Mount Thom Map (Section 9) 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. Also featured are the communities of Brookland, Salt Springs, Six Mile Brook, Watervale, West River Station, and Mount Ephraim.
Mineral Resource Land Use Map 011E10 for New Glasgow Area. Find out how to download or view this map online …
Topographic map 011E10 includes the Towns of New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville, and Trenton, as well as several other communities. Find out how to download or view this map online …
Crown Land Grant Map 087 provides a historic cartographic representation of what the parcel fabric originally looked like when the land in this region was first granted to settlers. It contains areas around the communities of Mount Thom, Salt Springs, Green Hill, Alma, Watervale, Millbrook, Hopewell, Landsdowne, Eureka, Churchville, and the Towns of New Glasgow, Stellarton, and Westville.
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