Important manufacturing centres in the region include Pictou County, Truro, the Annapolis Valley and the South Shore, and the Strait of Canso area in Nova Scotia, as well as Summerside in Prince Edward Island, and the Miramichi area, the North Shore and the upper Saint John River valley of New Brunswick.

Pictou was a receiving point for many Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Northumberland Strait with MV Holiday Island, Pictou Island ( Nova Scotia ) | Pictou Island in background

The largest island in the strait is Pictou Island.

Major communities on the strait include the cities of Charlottetown and Summerside, Prince Edward Island as well as the towns of Souris, Prince Edward Island, Pictou, Nova Scotia, and Shediac, New Brunswick.

The strait hosts two seasonal ferry services: Northumberland Ferries Limited operates a passenger / vehicle service between Caribou, Nova Scotia and Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island, a separate passenger-only ferry service also operates from Caribou to Pictou Island.

Pictou was a receiving point for many Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The town has an indirect connection to Scottish settlement in New Zealand ; the Reverend Norman McLeod emigrated to Pictou from Scotland some years after the Hector but eventually re-settled with his parishioners at St. Ann's on Cape Breton Island.

Pictou Academy is the town's high school and was founded in 1803 by Dr. Thomas McCulloch, who was travelling to his new clergy posting on Prince Edward Island.

Pictou is 5 kilometres south of the port of Caribou where Northumberland Ferries Limited operates a seasonal vehicle-pedestrian ferry service to Prince Edward Island ; there is also a pedestrian-only ferry that operates seaonally to Pictou Island.

Pictou soon became an important ferry port for steamships servicing Prince Edward Island.

This line was known as the " Short Line " and it provided an alternate route for ICR trains heading to Pictou County and Cape Breton Island from New Brunswick.

ICR passenger trains also connected with steamship services to Prince Edward Island at Shediac and Pictou, steamship services to Quebec at Pictou, steamship services to the United States and Europe at Halifax and Saint John, provided railcar ferries to Cape Breton Island, and steamship services operated by the Newfoundland Railway to Newfoundland at North Sydney.

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

* French River, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada

* August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.

* Plymouth, Pictou County, Nova Scotia

After passing through Charlottetown it ends at Wood Islands where a ferry route ( operated by Northumberland Ferries Limited, or NFL ) crosses the Northumberland Strait to Caribou, Nova Scotia ( near Pictou ).

Pictou County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

Hector Pioneer by renowned sculptor John Wilson ( sculptor ) | John Wilson, Pictou, Nova Scotia

* Avondale, Pictou, Nova Scotia in Pictou County

MacKay was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the June 2, 1997 federal election for Pictou — Antigonish — Guysborough, a riding in northeastern Nova Scotia.

A sports enthusiast, MacKay is active in local adult rugby, baseball, football and hockey teams in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

This operation ended in 1993 not long after Curragh Resources suffered a coal mining disaster at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

* Riverton, Nova Scotia, a small community in Pictou County

Douglas was born in Maine Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, the son of an itinerant Scottish Presbyterian minister from Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

John Keiller MacKay was born in 1888 in the village of Plainfield, Nova Scotia in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the son of John Duncan and Bessie ( Murray ) MacKay.

Pictou Island receives no electrical power from the mainland.

8, 1861, Pictou, Nova Scotia-Ithaca, NY, Oct. 8, 1924 ), was an American philosopher who believed no system of thought can be the product of an isolated mind.

Two armed schooners, Franklin and Hancock, from Beverly, Massachusetts, made prisoner of the attorney-general at Charlottetown, on advice given them by some Pictou residents after they had taken eight fishing vessels in the Gut of Canso.

Category: People from Pictou County, Nova Scotia

In Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton Electric RCompany operated interurban services between Sydney, Glace Bay and New Waterford from 1901 to 1947, and the Pictou County Electric Company operated interurban services between the five towns of Pictou County from 1904 to 1931.

He later encouraged his parishioners to move to Waipu where there are still many descendants from Pictou and St. Ann's.

In 1812 Sir Hector Maclean ( the 7th Baronet of Morvern and 23rd Chief of the Clan Maclean ) emigrated to Pictou from Glensanda and Kingairloch in Scotland with almost the entire population of 500.

Shipbuilding increased through the 19th century, particularly with the increase in coal being shipped from Pictou Landing, Abercrombie and the East River of Pictou.

* Thomas McCulloch, Presbyterian minister from Renfrewshire, Scotland and founder of Pictou Academy.

* Peter Crerar, civil engineer, came to Pictou from Scotland in 1817.

* August 18-The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.

Category: People from Pictou County, Nova Scotia

Category: People from Pictou County, Nova Scotia

In addition to Halifax Regional Municipality's urban core, the town of Truro and all of rural Colchester County as well as the western part of Pictou County experienced property damage and power outages from falling trees ; numerous barns and other agricultural buildings were damaged east of the storm's path, including a replica of the Hector in Pictou Harbour.

The principal policy objective of the Pipes government was to secure a transfer of the Pictou railway line from the federal government to the province and to purchase and complete the privately owned " Eastern Extension Railway ".