Pictou (/ˈpɪktoʊ/ PIK-toh; Canadian Gaelic: Baile Phiogto) is a town in Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Located on the north shore...
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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...
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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...
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Pictou East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its Member of the Legislative...
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Anna Mae Aquash (redirect from Anna Mae Pictou Aquash)
Annie Mae Pictou was born into the Mi'kmaq First Nation at Indian Brook Reserve in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Her mother was Mary Ellen Pictou and her father...
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Pictou County pizza is a regional variant of pizza found in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The pizza utilizes a "brown sauce" that includes common pizza sauce-related...
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Pictou Island is a Canadian island located in the Northumberland Strait approximately seven kilometres (four nautical miles) north of Nova Scotia and nineteen...
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Tim Houston (category People from Pictou County)
Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, he represents the electoral district of Pictou East. Houston also served as the leader of the opposition from 2018 to 2021...
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Pictou Group is a stratigraphical unit of Late Carboniferous to Permian age in the Cumberland Basin of Atlantic Canada. It takes the name from Pictou...
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Pictou Landing may refer to: Pictou Landing First Nation Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Pictou West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its member of the Legislative...
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HMCS Pictou was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought mainly in the...
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The Pictou Highlanders was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army from 1871 until it was amalgamated into the Nova Scotia Highlanders in 1954. Founded...
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Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of...
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town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour...
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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pictou, named for Pictou, Nova Scotia: HMS Pictou (1813) was a 14-gun privateer or letter of marque...
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Pictou Centre is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. This riding has elected...
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A by-election was held in the provincial riding of Pictou West in Nova Scotia on May 21, 2024, to elect a new member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly...
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The Pictou County Crushers are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. They are in the Maritime Junior Hockey League's Eastlink...
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Guysborough County were placed with Pictou County in a new electoral boundaries configuration to form the electoral district of Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough. A...
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Keith Bain (Victoria-The Lakes) Steve Craig (Sackville-Cobequid) Pat Dunn (Pictou Centre) Larry Harrison (Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley) Allan MacMaster...
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Pictou Harbour is a natural harbour in Nova Scotia on the Northumberland Strait. The distance between the town of Pictou on the north shore, and the community...
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HMS Pictou was a 14-gun schooner that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. She served briefly on the Royal Navy's North American station, capturing one or...
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Pictou Academy (PA), founded in 1815 by Dr. Thomas McCulloch, is a secondary school in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a grammar...
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Pictou is an unincorporated community in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. A post office called Pictou was established in 1889, and remained in...
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1949, at which time Pictou County was divided into the three electoral districts of: Pictou East, Pictou West, and Pictou Centre. Pictou elected the following...
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Pictou County Transit is a Canadian public transport system comprising one bus route in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, which serves the towns of New Glasgow...
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River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County . 45°34′24.81″N 62°25′36.81″W / 45.5735583°N 62.4268917°W / 45...
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The Pictou Shipyard is a Canadian shipbuilding site located in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and made famous by its use as an emergency shipbuilding facility...
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Thomas McCulloch (section Life in Pictou)
Halifax to Pictou, Nova Scotia, William taught in the school at Pictou, and George, the youngest son, a cabinet maker, also lived in Pictou. Elizabeth...
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