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Ellen Brown Lake
Ellen Brown Lake is a lake of Pictou County 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. Furthermo ..., in Nova Scotia, Canada. Ellen Brown Lake is in the headwaters of the West Branch of St. Mary's River. The lake lies just north of the Nelson River, a tributary of the St. Mary's. Environment Canada collected water quality data in the lake in 1997. Selected findings were alkalinity 2 mg/L CaCO3, pH 6.29, total nitrogen 0.112 mg/L and total phosphorus 0.0049 mg/L. See also * List of lakes in Nova Scotia References Sources * * Lakes of Nova Scotia {{PictouNS-geo-stub ...
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Pictou County
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. Etymology The origin of the name "Pictou" is obscure. Possible Mi'kmaq derivations include "Piktook" meaning an explosion of gas, and "Bucto" meaning fire, possibly related to the coal fields in the area. It might also be a corruption of Poictou (Poitou), a former province of France. Nicolas Denys named the harbour ''La rivière de Pictou'' in the 1660s. History The area of the modern Pictou County was a part of the Miꞌkmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki (''mi'gama'gi'') at the time of European contact. In the early 1600s France claimed the area as a part of Acadia. By the 1760s, small French settlements existed a ...
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Nova Scotia
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". Most of the population are native English-speakers, and the province's population is 969,383 according to the 2021 Census. It is the most populous of Canada's Atlantic provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after Prince Edward Island. Its area of includes Cape Breton Island and 3,800 other coastal islands. The Nova Scotia peninsula is connected to the rest of North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's land border with New Brunswick is located. The province borders the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, and is separated from Prince Edward Island and the island of Newfoundland by the Northumberland and Cabot straits, ...
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List Of Lakes In Nova Scotia
This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municipality * Anse aux Cannes Pond *The Barachois *Bear Cove Pond *Bear Gulch Ponds * Beaverdam Pond *Belle Lake *Bennetts Pond * Big Pond *Blacketts Lake * Bluff Lake * Boom Pond * Boutellier Lake * Bray Lake *Buscombe Lake *Campbells Pond * Canoe Lake *Catalone Lake *Cavanaghs Lake *Cochran Lake * Copper Lake *Cranberry Pond *Cusack Lake *Danny MacDonalds Lake * Deadman Lake *Dixon Lake *Dixons Lake *Ducker Lake *Dumaresq Lake * Ferguson Lake *Fiddlers Lake *Fieldings Lake * First Dodds Lake * French Village Lake *Gabarus Lake * Goose Lake * Grants Hill Lake *Grants Old Lake * Gull Lake *Hardys Lake *Little Ferguson Lake *Little MacLeod Lake *Lower MacLeod Lake * MacInnis Lake * MacIntyre Lake *MacIsaacs Lake * MacLeod Lake *MacMullin Lake * MacPherson Lake *Marsh Lake * Shibinette Lakes *Slatterys Lake *Stew ...
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