Richmond is a county on Cape Breton island, in the Canadian maritime province of Nova Scotia. This article needs cleanup. ... | TotalArea = 55,283 | LandArea = 53,338 | WaterArea = 1,946 | PercentWater = 3. ...

Richmond's principal population centers are Arichat, St. Peters, Louisdale, and Petit de Grat, all home to under a thousand residents.

In the summer of 2002, RCMP seized a $160-million cocaine shipment off the coast of Arichat in Richmond County. Four Quebec men were arrested in the seizure after police intercepted their sailing vessel. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or Mounties; French, Gendarmerie royale du Canada, GRC) is both the federal police force and the national police of Canada. ... This article is about the drug Cocaine. ... The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ...