Big Pond, Nova Scotia

Big Pond (Scottish Gaelic: Am Pòn Mòr) is a community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada[1] on the south shore of Bras d'Or Lake.

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 Mi'kmaq name for the location was "Naooktaboogooik" which roughly translates to "It stands alone".

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