nova scotia

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Definition of nova scotia in English English dictionary

A province in eastern Canada, capital Halifax

{i} province located on a peninsula in southeastern Canada

a province of southeast Canada on the Atlantic Ocean, whose capital city is Halifax. It consists mainly of farmland and forests, and it also produces minerals. Province (pop., 2001: 943,000), Canada, one of the Maritime Provinces. It comprises the peninsula of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, and a few small adjacent islands, and it is bounded by the Northumberland Strait, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Atlantic Ocean, the Bay of Fundy, and New Brunswick. Its capital is Halifax. The region was first visited by Vikings AD 1000 and was inhabited by Micmac Indians when John Cabot claimed it for England in 1497. French settlers in 1605 adopted the Micmac name Acadia for the region. English and Scottish colonists arrived by 1621. The conflict between France and England over control of the area was ended by the 1713 Peace of Utrecht, which awarded it to England. In the 1750s, the British expelled most of the French settlers. Following the American Revolution, many loyalists emigrated there. It joined the Dominion of Canada in 1867 as one of the original members. The province's economic mainstays are fishing, shipbuilding, and transatlantic shipping

a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River

A geographical area of the eastern seaboard of Canada

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 a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River

Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources 1701 Hollis Street Founder's Square, 2nd Floor P O Box 698 Halifax, NS B3J 2T9 [phone]

Related Terms

nova scotia lox

sugar-cure lox

Hyphenation

no·va sco·tia

Turkish pronunciation

nōvı skōşı

Pronunciation

/ˈnōvə ˈskōsʜə/ /ˈnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə/

Etymology

() From Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scotia (“Scotland”).