Pictou County
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Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was established in 1835, and was formerly a part of Halifax County from 1759 to 1835. It had a population of 43,657 people in 2021, a decline of 0.2 percent from 2016. Furthermore, its 2016 population is only 88.11% of the census population in 1991. It is the sixth most populous county in Nova Scotia.
Hector Pioneer by renowned sculptor John Wilson, Pictou, Nova Scotia
Ship Hector replica floating in Pictou Harbour
The former Pictou County pulp mill employed roughly 300 employees directly, with hundreds more indirect jobs in related industries.
The Nova Scotia Museum of Industry
Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Mi'kmaq family in Tuft's Cove, 1871. The Mi'kmaq inhabited Nova Scotia when the first Europeans arrived.
Expulsion of the Acadians in Grand-Pré. More than 80 per cent of the Acadian population was expelled from the region between 1755 and 1764.
HMS Shannon leading the captured USS Chesapeake into Halifax during the War of 1812
Inauguration of the Sebastopol Monument in 1860. The monument was built to honour Nova Scotians who fought in the Crimean War.