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PCT (Nova Scotia town)
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pictou
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Pictou was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia , Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968. It was created in the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the County of Pictou . It was abolished in ...
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The Port Hawkesbury steamboat from Shediac for that week had gone, to be sure, but we could take one of another line which would leave us at Pictou, whence we could take another across to Port Hood, on Cape Breton.
But if the boat had returned that night to Pictou, some of the passengers might have left her and gone west by rail, instead of wasting two, or three days lounging through Northumberland Sound and idling in the harbors of Prince Edward Island.
It is pleasant to sail into the long and broad harbor of Pictou on a sunny day.
On the right the town of Pictou, with its four thousand inhabitants, lies upon the side of the ridge that runs out towards the Sound.
We may have had no prejudices in favor of the Papal temporality when we landed at Pictou, but this church was the only one which impressed us, and the only one we took the trouble to visit.
Going out of the harbor we encounter Pictou Island and Light, and presently see the low coast of Prince Edward Island,--a coast indented and agreeable to those idly sailing along it, in weather that seemed let down out of heaven and over a sea that sparkled but still slept in a summer quiet.
New passengers had come on board at Pictou, new and hungry, and not all could get seats for dinner at the first table.
There followed a train ride of several hours, for Pictou is about a hundred and sixty kilometers from Halifax.
At Pictou, we found a couple of horses waiting for us, and we rode straight into the Indian village.