Nova Scotia Archives
Built Heritage Resource Guide
"Pictou from Fort Hill"
Drawn by Wm. Eager, on stone by B. Champney, lithographed by Thayer, Boston, published by C.H. Belcher, Halifax, July, 1840.
"The town [Pictou] consists of about three hundred houses and stores, containing one thousand five hundred inhabitants, and is consequently the second in size throughout the province. The air of the place strikes a stranger’s eye as peculiarly Scotch.
The houses are little dirty stone or wooden buildings of two or three stories, huddled close together, with chimneys at each end and a door in the centre... Timber and coal are the chief exports. Freestone is quarried in the neighbourhood, and affords a small article for traffic."
Captain W. Moorsom, Letters from Nova Scotia; Comprising Sketches of a Young Country (London, 1830), pp. 352-353 [F 100/ M78; microfilm 3870]
Artist: Wm. Eager
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Documentary Art Collection: 1979-147.134 / negative N-1132, N-1135