 Point Tupper, Nova Scotia

Point Tupper is a rural community located in Richmond County, Nova Scotia on the Strait of Canso in western Cape Breton Island.Extensive land grants in the area were acquired in 1863 by Henry Nicholas Paint, of Belle Vue, Canso, member of Parliament for Richmond (Nova Scotia electoral district), who started to promote a township on the site, a project which he continued doggedly until his death in 1921.