Pictou
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Pictou is a town in Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Located on the north shore of Pictou Harbour, the town is approximately 10 km north of the larger town of New Glasgow.
Pictou
ICR cars at dockside in Pictou, ca 1912.
Aerial view of Pictou, 1924
The former train station in Pictou Town
Highland Clearances
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The Highland Clearances were the forced evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860.
Ruined croft houses on Fuaigh Mòr in Loch Roag. The island was cleared of its inhabitants in 1841 and is now used only for grazing sheep.
The remains of old run rig strips beside Loch Eynort, Isle of Skye
Ruins of the Badbea longhouses with the 1911 monument in the background
Ormaig was once the principal settlement on the Isle of Ulva near Mull. It had been inhabited since prehistoric times, until it was cleared by Francis William Clark in the mid-19th century.