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Nova Scotia - Introduction
Area
21,425 square miles. 12th largest province or territory of Canada.
Furthest North to Furthest South
250 miles.
Furthest East to Furthest West
330 miles.
Population
Just under 1 million. (Many thanks to Eric Deegan who sent me this information.)
Population Density
42 per square mile.
Licence Plate
Background: White.
Image: Sailing ship.
Text: "Nova Scotia - Canada's Ocean Playground".
Arterial Highway Marker Shield Design
A rectangular white background.
In the top half there is a blue diagonal cross. Where the diagonals meet there is a small yellow shield with a red lion.
The bottom half has a blue shield with the road number.
Trunk Highway Marker Shield Design
A black outline of a shield, very similar to that of a US Highway, on a white square background with a black border.
Collector Highway Marker Shield Design
A brown rectangle.
Derivation of Name
Latin for "New Scotland", applied by settlers from Scotland in the 1620's.
Nicknames
- Nova Scotia is sometimes called the Land of Evangeline. This comes from the poem "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which tells the story of the expulsion of the French-speaking Acadians from eastern Canada in 1755.
- Inhabitants of Nova Scotia are sometimes called Bluenosers. This nickname is thought to have been given to the crew of the ships which carried the blue-skinned Nova Scotia potatoes to Boston in the late eighteenth century. A famous racing schooner called the Bluenose was built in Nova Scotia in 1921. This boat held the International Fisherman’s Trophy Cup for two decades. A picture of the Bluenose appears on the back of the Canadian dime coin and on a Canadian postage stamp. (Many thanks to Eric Deegan and Laura Klein who sent me this information.)
Climate
Halifax: Jan/Feb high -7C, Mar/Apr high 8C, May/Jun high 17C, Jul/Aug high 21C, Sep/Oct high 16C, Nov/Dec high -5C.
Official Provincial Tourism Office
Tel (Canada): 1-800-565-0000
Checked Jul-99.
Highway Conditions
Tel (Canada): 1-902-424-3933.
Checked May-00.
Departments of Transportation etc for each US state and Canadian province
Provincial Parks
Official site. Checked Mar-99.
Other Information
Many thanks to Eric Deegan who sent me the following description of Nova Scotia:
The area was first settled by the French in 1605 as Acadia and changed hands several times between the French and the English until it was finally ceded to Britain in 1713. Nova Scotia became a Province of Canada in 1867.
Nova Scotia is known as Canada's best kept secret. It has very warm people who try to live a peaceful life. It also has a strong attachment to the Christian faith, with percentages of people attending church being the highest in the country.
Places to visit include Peggy's Cove, Digby (lobsters), Cabot Trail (Cape Breton), Wolfville (Acadia University) and Mahone Bay, with several other places to visit within the Halifax region.
Sports include football, hockey, basketball, soccer, volleyball and rugby. Nova Scotia is known as a very athletic region.
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