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Pictou ( Scottish Gaelic: Baile Phictou) 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.
Once an active shipping port and the shire town of the county, today Pictou is primarily a local service centre for surrounding rural communities and being the primary tourist destination in this region of Nova Scotia.
The name Pictou derives from the Mi'kmaq name Piktuk, meaning "explosive place", a reference to the river of pitch that was found in the area.
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 1966 when it was merged into the riding of Central Nova. It returned two members from 1872 to 1903.
Pictou was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It existed from 1867 to 1949.
Pictou is a Canadian town in Nova Scotia.
Pictou may also refer to:
- Pictou County, Nova Scotia, one of Nova Scotia's 18 counties.
- HMCS Pictou (K146), a Flower-class corvette.
- Pictou (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia.
- Pictou (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia.
- Pictou Academy, a secondary school in the town of Pictou.
- Pictou, Colorado, a community in the United States
Usage examples of "pictou".
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.