The Advocate staff from 1893 stand in front of the Newspaper office on Water Street. The owner and editor, John D. MacDonald, stands second from left. The site is now the Press Room Pub parking lot.
Judging by the decorations hanging in the windows, this photo, looking west along Front Street to Coleraine Street, may have been taken when Pictou's first passenger train arrived in 1887.
In 2005, there are fewer buildings along Front Street, but much more traffic. The photographer couldn`t stand in the middle of the street for fear of being hit by a car.
The Fire Station in 1923 was situated on Church Street next to the Municipal Building, now H&R Block tax services, across from Market Square. It had a siren apparatus on the roof.
In 2005, the Fire Station is further west on Church Street, on the site of the first Pictou Academy, but still holds some of the early fire-fighting equipment.
By 2005, Hockin`s Corner is the site of the Pictou Rotary and the surrounding business area. A large snowfall now brings out the truck-mounted snowplows, which pushed the snow off Sobey`s parking lot into a big pile beisde the war place monument.
