
Nova Scotia (Latin for ''New Scotland''; “Alba Nuadh” in Scottish Gaelic, ''la Nouvelle-Écosse'' in French language) is a Canada Provinces of Canada on the North Atlantic coast. Nova Scotia has an area of 55,500 square kilometre and a population of just under 940,000 (''Nova Scotians''). Its capital is Halifax, Nova Scotia. ==Geography== The province's mainland is a peninsula, connected to mainland North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotian mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately 175 km from the province's southern coast. Nova Scotia is Canada's second smallest province in area (after Prince Edward Island), and no point in Nova Scotia is more than 56 km from the sea. See also individual articles on :Category:Nova Scotia geography and Nova Scotia#Map for a map.
10 Largest Municipalities by population {| border="1" cellpadding="2" !Municipality !2001 !1996 |- |Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia |359,111 |342,851 |- |Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia |105,968 |114,733 |- |Kings County, Nova Scotia |47,159 |47,486 |- |Colchester County, Nova Scotia |35,641 |35,161 |- |Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (municipal district) |25,570 |25,949 |- |Pictou County, Nova Scotia |21,778 |22,671 |- |East Hants, Nova Scotia |20,821 |19,767 |- |Annapolis County, Nova Scotia |18,429 |18,937 |- |Cumberland County, Nova Scotia |16,183 |17,738 |- |Inverness County, Nova Scotia |15,601 |16,535 |} ==Demographics== ===Population=== Nova Scotia is the seventh most populated province in Canada with 939 791 residents. It accounts for 3% of the population of Canada. The population density is approximately 17.8 persons/km². Roughly 60% of the population live in rural parts of the province. ===Employment=== Unemployment is at just under 8% of the work force, as of May 2005. ===Per capita income=== Per capita income is just over $26 000 (Can), of which just over $19 000 is disposable. ===Gross Domestic Product=== Nova Scotia Gross domestic product is presently approximately $29 billion (Can) annually. ===National and ethnic origins=== According to the most recent federal government census conducted in 2001, 95.4% of Nova Scotians are Canadian born. Of the 4.6% of Nova Scotia residents who had immigrated to Canada, 45% per cent of immigrants were from Asia; 29.3% were from Europe; 21.9%, the Middle East; 11.8%, the United States; and 6.8%, the United Kingdom. In the same census, 50.7% of Nova Scotians indicated that their single ethnic origin to be "Canadian". 30.8% indicated it to be "British Isles"; 7.2%, "European"; 5.5%, "French people"; 2.1%, "African"; 1.9%, "First Nations"; 0.6%, "Arab/West Asian"; 0.4%, "Chinese"; 0.4% "South Asian". Each other category - "Filipino", "Japanese", "Korean", "Latin American", "Southeast Asian", and "Visible minority, n.i.e." - accounts for less than 0.2% of the population makeup. (Statistics source: The statistics presented here were obtained from the [http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/statistics/agency/index.asp Government of Nova Scotia's statistics website].) ==History== [[Image:Contrails over Nova Scotia.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A satellite photo of Nova Scotia]] Paleo Indians camped at locations in present-day Nova Scotia approximately 11,000 years ago. Archaic Indians are believed to have been present in the area between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Mi'kmaq, the First Nations of the province and region, are their direct descendants. The explorer Giovanni Caboto visited present-day Cape Breton in 1497. The first European settlement in Nova Scotia was established by France lead by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts. They established the first capital for the colony Acadia at Port Royal, Nova Scotia in 1605 at the head of the Annapolis Basin. In 1620, the Plymouth Council for New England, under James I of England designated the whole shorelines of Acadia and the Mid-Atlantic colonies south to the Chesapeake Bay as New England. In the latter 1620s, a group of Scots was sent by Charles I of England to set up the colony of 'Nova Scotia'. (The Latin appellation was so stated in Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling'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 had been properly established. The French fortress at Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) was established to guard the sea approaches to Quebec. This fortress was captured by American colonial armed forces, then returned by the British to France, then ceded again after the French and Indian War. British governing officials became increasingly concerned over the unwillingness of the Acadians, who were French-speaking, Catholic and the majority of colonists, to pledge allegiance to the British Crown. Despite a large number of mostly Germany foreign Protestants to be brought and settled along the South Shore (Nova Scotia) in 1750, the colony remained mostly Acadian. In 1755, the British forcibly expelled the Acadians in what became known as the Great Expulsion. Most of these Acadians resettled in the Louisiana Territory. The colony's jurisdiction changed during this time. In 1763 Cape Breton Island became part of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became a separate colony. In 1784 the western, mainland portion of the colony was separated and became the province of New Brunswick. Cape Breton became a separate colony from 1784 to 1820, when it was rejoined. Ancestors of more than half of present-day Nova Scotians arrived in the period following the Acadian Expulsion. Approximately 30,000 United Empire Loyalists (American Tories) settled in Nova Scotia (when it comprised present-day Maritime Canada) following the defeat of the United Kingdom in the American Revolutionary War. Approximately 3,000 of this group were slaves of African ancestry, about a third of which soon relocated themselves to Sierra Leone in 1792. Large numbers of Highland Scots emigrated to Cape Breton and the western portion of the mainland during the late 18th century and 19th century. An approximate thousand Ulster Scots settled in mainly central Nova Scotia during this time, as did just over a thousand farming migrants from Yorkshire and Northumberland between 1772 and 1775. Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January-February 1848 and become self-governing colony through the efforts of Joseph Howe. Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of Canadian Confederation, along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario. See also individual articles on :Category:Nova Scotia history. ==Other facts== [[Image:Nsudsam.jpg|thumb|right|The current Nova Scotia license plate features the schooner Bluenose.]] Nova Scotia is in the Atlantic standard time zone. The Bluenose, which appears on the front of the Canadian ten-cent piece (dime) and current Nova Scotia license plate was built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (town), a town on the South Shore. Very few Nova Scotians today are fluent in Scottish Gaelic. Sable Island is also considered to be jurisdictionally part of The Halifax, Nova Scotia, despite being located 180 km offshore. ==Map==
Does the translation of ''Munit hæc et altera vincit'' as "One ''leads'' and the other conquers" have any sort of official sanction or preference? What it says to me is, "One ''defends'' and the other conquers." -- User:Ihcoyc 04:15 Feb 28, 2003 (UTC) :The motto is translated as I'd expect it to be here: http://www.gov.ns.ca/legi/pubs/provhouse/symbols/coat.htm :I will change it. -- User:Ihcoyc 04:20 Feb 28, 2003 (UTC) --- worth noting that NS is Canada's easternmost province, by virtue of the fact one square yard is on the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. And Lunenburg itself was on the back of the $5 for awhile. user:kwantus Is there any real reason the american colonization template is on the nova scotian page outside of the fact that Nova scotia was colonized by the french and english? I don't see the specific or unique connection to the province over any other colonized place. User:PullUpYourSocks 19:45, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) without any agenda but to see the truth told from a global perspective, i have considerably altered and will continue to alter piece-meal the history section of the article. i am more than willing to discuss the rationale i have had for these alterations. i found how the article was written to suggest that nova scotia is today some "new scotland", which seems to me a tourism push to have it seen so, not the reality. moreover, i could find no evidence of there being any community of scots (lallans) speakers and any prevalence of scottish gaelic speakers (as opposed to individuals who use gaelic as a heritage language), so please let me know what material is available on this. regards, matthew
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Nova Scotia (Latin for ''New Scotland''; “Alba Nuadh” in Scottish Gaelic, ''la Nouvelle-Écosse'' in French language) is a Canada Provinces of Canada on the North Atlantic coast. Nova Scotia has an area of 55,500 square kilometre and a population of just under 940,000 (''Nova Scotians''). Its capital is Halifax, Nova Scotia. ==Geography== The province's mainland is a peninsula, connected to mainland North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotian mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately 175 km from the province's southern coast. Nova Scotia is Canada's second smallest province in area (after Prince Edward Island), and no point in Nova Scotia is more than 56 km from the sea. See also individual articles on :Category:Nova Scotia geography and Nova Scotia#Map for a map.
10 Largest Municipalities by population {| border="1" cellpadding="2" !Municipality !2001 !1996 |- |Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia |359,111 |342,851 |- |Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia |105,968 |114,733 |- |Kings County, Nova Scotia |47,159 |47,486 |- |Colchester County, Nova Scotia |35,641 |35,161 |- |Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (municipal district) |25,570 |25,949 |- |Pictou County, Nova Scotia |21,778 |22,671 |- |East Hants, Nova Scotia |20,821 |19,767 |- |Annapolis County, Nova Scotia |18,429 |18,937 |- |Cumberland County, Nova Scotia |16,183 |17,738 |- |Inverness County, Nova Scotia |15,601 |16,535 |} ==Demographics== ===Population=== Nova Scotia is the seventh most populated province in Canada with 939 791 residents. It accounts for 3% of the population of Canada. The population density is approximately 17.8 persons/km². Roughly 60% of the population live in rural parts of the province. ===Employment=== Unemployment is at just under 8% of the work force, as of May 2005. ===Per capita income=== Per capita income is just over $26 000 (Can), of which just over $19 000 is disposable. ===Gross Domestic Product=== Nova Scotia Gross domestic product is presently approximately $29 billion (Can) annually. ===National and ethnic origins=== According to the most recent federal government census conducted in 2001, 95.4% of Nova Scotians are Canadian born. Of the 4.6% of Nova Scotia residents who had immigrated to Canada, 45% per cent of immigrants were from Asia; 29.3% were from Europe; 21.9%, the Middle East; 11.8%, the United States; and 6.8%, the United Kingdom. In the same census, 50.7% of Nova Scotians indicated that their single ethnic origin to be "Canadian". 30.8% indicated it to be "British Isles"; 7.2%, "European"; 5.5%, "French people"; 2.1%, "African"; 1.9%, "First Nations"; 0.6%, "Arab/West Asian"; 0.4%, "Chinese"; 0.4% "South Asian". Each other category - "Filipino", "Japanese", "Korean", "Latin American", "Southeast Asian", and "Visible minority, n.i.e." - accounts for less than 0.2% of the population makeup. (Statistics source: The statistics presented here were obtained from the [http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/statistics/agency/index.asp Government of Nova Scotia's statistics website].) ==History== [[Image:Contrails over Nova Scotia.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A satellite photo of Nova Scotia]] Paleo Indians camped at locations in present-day Nova Scotia approximately 11,000 years ago. Archaic Indians are believed to have been present in the area between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Mi'kmaq, the First Nations of the province and region, are their direct descendants. The explorer Giovanni Caboto visited present-day Cape Breton in 1497. The first European settlement in Nova Scotia was established by France lead by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts. They established the first capital for the colony Acadia at Port Royal, Nova Scotia in 1605 at the head of the Annapolis Basin. In 1620, the Plymouth Council for New England, under James I of England designated the whole shorelines of Acadia and the Mid-Atlantic colonies south to the Chesapeake Bay as New England. In the latter 1620s, a group of Scots was sent by Charles I of England to set up the colony of 'Nova Scotia'. (The Latin appellation was so stated in Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling'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 had been properly established. The French fortress at Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) was established to guard the sea approaches to Quebec. This fortress was captured by American colonial armed forces, then returned by the British to France, then ceded again after the French and Indian War. British governing officials became increasingly concerned over the unwillingness of the Acadians, who were French-speaking, Catholic and the majority of colonists, to pledge allegiance to the British Crown. Despite a large number of mostly Germany foreign Protestants to be brought and settled along the South Shore (Nova Scotia) in 1750, the colony remained mostly Acadian. In 1755, the British forcibly expelled the Acadians in what became known as the Great Expulsion. Most of these Acadians resettled in the Louisiana Territory. The colony's jurisdiction changed during this time. In 1763 Cape Breton Island became part of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became a separate colony. In 1784 the western, mainland portion of the colony was separated and became the province of New Brunswick. Cape Breton became a separate colony from 1784 to 1820, when it was rejoined. Ancestors of more than half of present-day Nova Scotians arrived in the period following the Acadian Expulsion. Approximately 30,000 United Empire Loyalists (American Tories) settled in Nova Scotia (when it comprised present-day Maritime Canada) following the defeat of the United Kingdom in the American Revolutionary War. Approximately 3,000 of this group were slaves of African ancestry, about a third of which soon relocated themselves to Sierra Leone in 1792. Large numbers of Highland Scots emigrated to Cape Breton and the western portion of the mainland during the late 18th century and 19th century. An approximate thousand Ulster Scots settled in mainly central Nova Scotia during this time, as did just over a thousand farming migrants from Yorkshire and Northumberland between 1772 and 1775. Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January-February 1848 and become self-governing colony through the efforts of Joseph Howe. Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of Canadian Confederation, along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario. See also individual articles on :Category:Nova Scotia history. ==Other facts== [[Image:Nsudsam.jpg|thumb|right|The current Nova Scotia license plate features the schooner Bluenose.]] Nova Scotia is in the Atlantic standard time zone. The Bluenose, which appears on the front of the Canadian ten-cent piece (dime) and current Nova Scotia license plate was built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (town), a town on the South Shore. Very few Nova Scotians today are fluent in Scottish Gaelic. Sable Island is also considered to be jurisdictionally part of The Halifax, Nova Scotia, despite being located 180 km offshore. ==Map==
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Does the translation of ''Munit hæc et altera vincit'' as "One ''leads'' and the other conquers" have any sort of official sanction or preference? What it says to me is, "One ''defends'' and the other conquers." -- User:Ihcoyc 04:15 Feb 28, 2003 (UTC) :The motto is translated as I'd expect it to be here: http://www.gov.ns.ca/legi/pubs/provhouse/symbols/coat.htm :I will change it. -- User:Ihcoyc 04:20 Feb 28, 2003 (UTC) --- worth noting that NS is Canada's easternmost province, by virtue of the fact one square yard is on the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. And Lunenburg itself was on the back of the $5 for awhile. user:kwantus Is there any real reason the american colonization template is on the nova scotian page outside of the fact that Nova scotia was colonized by the french and english? I don't see the specific or unique connection to the province over any other colonized place. User:PullUpYourSocks 19:45, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC) without any agenda but to see the truth told from a global perspective, i have considerably altered and will continue to alter piece-meal the history section of the article. i am more than willing to discuss the rationale i have had for these alterations. i found how the article was written to suggest that nova scotia is today some "new scotland", which seems to me a tourism push to have it seen so, not the reality. moreover, i could find no evidence of there being any community of scots (lallans) speakers and any prevalence of scottish gaelic speakers (as opposed to individuals who use gaelic as a heritage language), so please let me know what material is available on this. regards, matthew
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