Loch Lomond is a community in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after the famous loch in Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
The settlement sits on the eastern shore of a freshwater lake that shares its name, an area prized for its scenery and long popular for summer cottages, fishing and boating. The community was established in 1828 by Scottish pioneers from the islands of Harris and Uist in the Outer Hebrides, part of the wider wave of Highland emigration to Nova Scotia during the 19th century. A roadside monument commemorates these early settlers. Some families later moved onward to St Anns, near Baddeck, another Scottish-named community on Cape Breton Island. The history of this migration and the cultural ties to Scotland remain central to Loch Lomond’s identity today.
