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Definitions: Nova Scotia |
Nova ScotiaNoun1. A peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River. 2. The Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Nova Scotia |
| English words defined with "Nova Scotia": Bay of Fundy ♦ Cabot, Cajun, Cape Sable, Champlain ♦ Decapterus macarellus ♦ Eosaurus ♦ Giovanni Cabato ♦ Halifax ♦ John Cabot ♦ Lampris guttatus ♦ mackerel scad, mackerel shad, Maritime Provinces, Maritimes, Micmacs ♦ New World opah, northern sea robin, Nova scotia lox ♦ Prionotus carolinus ♦ Samuel de Champlain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Nova Scotia": oil coal ♦ Rene Leblanc ♦ stellar coal, stellarite, stellerite. (references) |
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| Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) | |||||
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| Capital | Halifax | ||||
| Largest City | Halifax | ||||
| Area - Total - % fresh water | 12th largest (9th lgst prov.) 55 284 km² 3.5% | ||||
| Population
- Total (2001) - Density | Ranked 7th
942 700 17.67/km² | ||||
| Admittance into Confederation
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N.S. colony joined Confed. 1867 1 | ||||
| Time zone | UTC -4 | ||||
| Postal information
Postal abbreviation Postal code prefix | NS B | ||||
| ISO 3166-2 | CA-NS | ||||
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Parliamentary representation House seats Senate seats |
11 10 | ||||
| Premier | John Hamm (P.C.) | ||||
| Lieutenant-Governor | Myra A. Freeman | ||||
| Government of Nova Scotia | |||||
Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; “Alba Nuadh” in Scots Gaelic, French, la Nouvelle-Écosse) is a Canadian province and is located on the east coast. Nova Scotia has an area of 55,500 km2 and a population of about 940,000 (Nova Scotians). Its capital is Halifax.
The province's mainland is a peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and includes several bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the north-east of the Nova Scotian mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small but notorious island approximately 175 km from the province's Atlantic coast. No point in Nova Scotia is more than 56km from the sea.
See below for a map.
The native population of the province is collectively known as the Mi'kmaq.
Although first visited by the explorer John Cabot, an Italian sailing for England, in 1497, Nova Scotia was first settled by the Acadian French under Samuel de Champlain. They made their first capital at Port Royal, Nova Scotia on the mouth of the LaHave River in 1604, and later moved it to Annapolis Royal in 1610.
In the 1620s a group of Scots was sent by Charles I to set up a colony. (The Latin name was so stated in Sir William Alexander's 1621 land grant.) However owing to the signing of a peace treaty with France, the territory was given to the French and the Scots ordered to abandon their mission before their colony was properly established. The French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island was established to guard the sea approaches to Quebec. This fortress was captured by American colonial forces, then returned by the English to France, then ceded again after the Conquest of Quebec.
The British were very concerned about how dominated the colony was by the French and Catholic Acadians. In 1750 a large number of foreign protestants, mostly Germans, were imported and settled along the South Shore. The colony was still mostly Acadian, however, and the British decided to forcibly expel the Acadians.
After the Acadian Expulsion, later and unrelated Scots emigration to Cape Breton Island in the north of the province took place in the late 18th and early 19th century. Scots Gaelic is still spoken there.
In 1784, the western, mainland portion of the colony was separated and became the province of New Brunswick.
Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of Confederation, which included also New Brunswick, Quebec (Lower Canada) and Ontario (Upper Canada).
The Bluenose, which appears on the Canadian ten-cent piece (dime) was built in Lunenburg, a town on the South Shore.Geography
History
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nova Scotia."
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Lyrics | Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia (YOU'RE SO VAIN; performing artist: Carly Simon) Not to mention Halifax Nova Scotia ("Dancing in the Street"; performing artist: Martha & The Vandellas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Joseph Howe: The Tribune of Nova Scotia (1961) Songs of Nova Scotia (1958) On the Shores of Nova Scotia (1947) | |
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 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |  | Underway in company with USS Augusta (CA-31), in left front, off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, on August 1941. Augusta had President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked to witness Long Island's operations. Among the other ships present are USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), partially visible at far right, and USS Meredith (DD-434), steaming astern of Long Island.Credit: NAVY. |
 | At Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 9 April 1942. USS Munargo (AP-20) is in the upper left background.Credit: NAVY. |  | Probably photographed at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1918-1919. Built in 1915 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin as the commercial freighter Nevada, this icebreaking ship was purchased by Russia in 1917 and renamed Rogday. She was taken over by the U.S. Navy at Sydney, Nova Scotia and placed in commission as USS Rogday on 22 November 1918. Decommissioned on 18 June 1919, she was transferred to the U.S. Shipping Board on 24 September 1919 and turned over to a representative of the Czarist Russian government the same day.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Old Nick's new patent plan to make Nova Scotia Tories, Federals coodies, Hartford conventioners, Nullifiers, National Republican bankites &c.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | If you were born in Nova Scotia -- and you clerked in the District -- and you threw a woman ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Alexander Graham Bell with Sir Wilfred Grenfel examining the nipples of one of his twin-bearing multi-nipple sheep at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tetrahedral tower at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Beinn Bhreagh estate, Nova Scotia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bras d'Or Lake, Baddeck and Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | The only difference between these two subtypes is that type D arises in people with a common ancestral background in Nova Scotia. (references) | |
Marrie, T.J., Van Buren, J., Faulkner, R.S., Haldane, E.V., Williams, J.C., and Kwan, C. (1984). Seroepidemiology of Q fever in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. (references) | ||
Business | The most important are Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (Italy), Deutsche Bank AG (Germany), and because of recent purchases and mergers, the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (Spain), Banco Santander (Spain), the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank (Anglo Chinese), and Nova Scotia (Canada). (references) | |
Economic History | Canada | Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia all limit real estate sales to out-of-province parties. (references) |
Canada | I. The Atlantic Provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | In 1787 the British helped 400 freed slaves from the United States, Nova Scotia, and Great Britain return to Sierra Leone to settle in what they called the "Province of Freedom." Disease and hostility from the indigenous people nearly eliminated the first group of returnees. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | Other test cases that involve members of aboriginal groups being tried on charges of illegally harvesting timber on Crown land continued in the court systems in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. (references) |
Canada | The Federal Government negotiated interim fishing agreements with 30 of the 34 native communities in Atlantic Canada, but the Burnt Church First Nation in New Brunswick and 3 other groups in Nova Scotia have refused to sign the interim agreements and have been accused of contravening federal regulations by fishing for lobster out-of-season. (references) | |
Political Economy | Canada | Provincial or Territorial elections were held in British Columbia in May 2001, which resulted in victory for the Liberal Party; in Alberta in March 2001 (Progressive Conservatives won); in Quebec in November 1998 (Parti Quebecois); in Newfoundland and Labrador (Liberals) and in Nunavut in February 1999; in Ontario (Progressive Conservatives) and in New Brunswick (Progressive Conservatives) in June 1999; in Nova Scotia in July 1999 (Progressive Conservatives); in Saskatchewan (New Democratic Party) and in Manitoba (New Democratic Party) in September 1999; in Northwest Territories in December 1999; and in Prince Edward Island (Progressive Conservatives) and in Yukon (Liberals) in April 2000. (references) |
Trade | Canada | With the exception of one special trade zone at the Sydport Industrial Park in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada has no free ports or free trade zones. (references) |
Haiti | There are seven locally incorporated banks (Promobank, Unibank, Banque de l'Union Haitienne, Sogebank, Socabank, Capital Bank and the very small Banque Industrielle et Commerciale d'Haiti) and two foreign banks (Bank of Nova Scotia, Citibank). (references) | |
Dominican Rep | List of multi-service banks to date are: The Bank of Nova Scotia, Citibank, Banco Nacional de Credito, Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER), Banco Mercantil, Banco Osaka, Banco Global, Banco Hipotecario Dominicano, Banco Dominicano del Progreso, Banco Popular Dominicano, and Banco Santa Cruz. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Canada | Significant strikes during the year included: 13,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (janitors, secretaries, bus drivers, language teachers, and special education teachers in Toronto's 565 public schools); health care workers, especially nurses in British Columbia and Nova Scotia; and municipal service workers in Alberta and British Columbia. (references) |
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| Canada | The Bank of Nova Scotia |
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Expression using "Nova Scotia": Nova scotia lox. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Nova Scotia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | neuschottland. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ノバスコーシャ , ノバスコシア . (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | Yn Albin Noa, Nalbin Noa. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovanay otiascay новая шотландия. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: avocations. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-o-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: avocation, vacations, vasotocin, vocations. | |
-2 letters: ovations, vacation, vocation. | |
-3 letters: actions, atonics, cations, octavos, ovation, ovonics, sacaton, satanic. | |
-4 letters: actins, action, antics, atavic, atonic, avians, avions, cantos, canvas, casino, casita, cation, coatis, contos, cotans, covins, nastic, nostoc, octans, octavo, ovisac, ovonic, sancta, savant, scotia, sonata, tocsin, tonics, vacant, vincas. | |
-5 letters: actin, anoas, antas, antic, antis, ascot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-o-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: advocations. | |
+2 letters: covariations, vacuolations. | |
+3 letters: coacervations, vocalizations, vocationalism, vocationalist. | |
+4 letters: conservational, conservatorial, conversational, vocationalisms, vocationalists. | |
+5 letters: misvocalization, postvaccination, subvocalization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 76 61 53 63 6F 74 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110110 01100001 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o v a   S c o t i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0076 0061 0053 0063 006F 0074 0069 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488188672536981867567 |
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