Atlantic Canada
Nova Scotia
Pictou County

Granton

Granton is a community in the Canadian province of , located in . It is the birthplace of Leonard W. Murray. The community was named for .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: human settlement in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Granton, Nova Scotia”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pictou and New Glasgow.

Photo: André Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small town of 3,200 people in County, on the north-western shore of a natural harbour. It is most well-known for its claim to be the birthplace of new Scotland after the landing of the first settlers to come to Nova Scotia directly from Scotland in 1773.

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is a town in , in the province of , Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into , a sub-basin of the .

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is a town in the province of , Canada. It is adjacent and to the south of the larger town of . In pioneer times the area was called Coal Mines Station, and from 1833 until 1889, it was known as Albion Mines. is situated 10 km southeast of Granton.

Granton

Latitude
45.62878° or 45° 37′ 44″ north
Longitude
-62.73697° or 62° 44′ 13″ west
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA GRN
Open location code
87QVJ7H7+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2474640813
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5964959
Wiki­data ID
Q5596663
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Polish—“Granton” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Granton, Nova Scotia”
  • Irish: “Granton”
  • Polish: “Granton (Nowa Szkocja)”
  • Polish: “Granton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Granton”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.