Facts About New Glasgow
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New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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New Glasgow is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait.
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Scottish immigrants, including those on the ship Hector in 1773, settled the area of the East River of Pictou during the late 18th and early 19th centuries
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The settlement was officially named “New Glasgow”, after Glasgow in Scotland, in 1809, the same year its first trading post was developed.
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New Glasgow is divided by the East River, a tidal estuary with brackish water.
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The Estimated Population of New Glasgow is 9,075.
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The highest temperature ever recorded in New Glasgow was 36.0 °C on 10 August 2001. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −39.4 °C on 2 February 1961.
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New Glasgow was incorporated as a town in 1875.
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New Glasgow has a land area of 9.96 km2 (3.85 sq mi).
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In 1946, New Glasgow was the setting for an important civil rights case when Viola Desmond challenged racial segregation of New Glasgow’s Roseland Theatre.
