Each year, descendants of these pioneers, along with curious cultural tourists and diehard genealogy buffs, visit our county to explore its rich historical heritage. A branch location of the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library , the New Glasgow Library houses the Ritchie Cemetery Records, a compilation of records taken from cemeteries and other historical resources during the 1950s. The library also has a strong collection of Pictou County genealogical and historical material as well as local newspapers and census records on microfilm.
Visitors are also welcome to surf the net on the library s free access Internet terminals.
It was with the arrival of the Betsey that the first families of Scottish and Scottish-Irish origin and a few Black slaves came to Pictou County in 1767. With the help of the Mi kmaq, the Betsey s settlers survived the new land. The passenger list from the Ship Hector records 189 souls. Many who disembarked from the ship in 1773 subsequently secured land in Pictou County, others went farther afield to other counties in Nova Scotia and beyond. Located on Haliburton Rd.