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VICTORY HEIGHTS “The Story of the Little Town”

By Roland Sherwood 1945

“VICTORY HEIGHTS…” is the name selected for the village of prefabricated houses erected in an area that once was Pictou’s pastureland, spreads over many acres in the East end of Town. Financed by Wartime Housing Limited, under contracts let to Eastern Woodworkers Limited, the houses were prefabricated in New Glasgow and brought to Pictou by the truck load. Here in this area that extends from Pleasant Street back one and a half miles to where extensive woodlands meet the reclaimed pasturage, the houses have been built.

The location is an ideal one. From Wellington Street the village slopes down to the Beaches Road and commands a sweeping view of Pictou Harbour. Wide streets have been built, and lawns, trees and shrubbery add to the beauty of the village. For months, tractors, ditch diggers, steam shovels and rollers, were at work, making streets, levelling off hillocks, filling hollows and multiplying manpower in making trenches for the laying of sewer and water mains.

The Town of Pictou erected a fine distribution line for electric services to the houses. Poplar street, which is the first street as you pass from Pictou proper into the little village, was completed and occupied first. In front of the other ho