The Pictou Group is a stratigraphical unit of Late Carboniferous to Permian age in the Cumberland Basin of Atlantic Canada.

It takes the name from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and was first described in outcrop along the West Branch River John by W.A.

[2] The Pictou Group is composed of red beds sandstone, mostly subarkose and sublitharenite.

[1] The Pictou Group contains the Balfron, the Tatamagouche, and the Cape John Formations.

The Pictou Group is also a synonym to the Prince Edward Island Group (include the Miminegash, Egmont Bay, Kildare Capes, Hillsborough River and Orby Head formations.