Big Pond, Nova Scotia
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Big Pond in Nova Scotia
St. Peters, Nova Scotia and Sydney, Nova Scotia
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Big Pond is a community that produced award-winning singers Rita MacNeil and Gordie Sampson. Quiet through the winter, with weekends punctuated by church functions, steak darts, potluck suppers, Big Pond plays host to hundreds of visitors and tourists in the summer months particularly beachgoers.
The community is named after the larger of two ponds (actually enclosed
Big Pond and Open Pond. The Mi'kmaq
name for the location was "Naooktaboogooik" which roughly translates to "It stands alone".
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45°54′35″N 60°32′10″W / 45.90972°N 60.53611°W
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