Nova Scotia
Maritime province of eastern Canada, comprising the peninsula of Nova
Scotia, extending southeast from New Brunswick into the Atlantic Ocean,
and Cape Breton Island, which is separated from the northeastern end
of the mainland by the Canso Strait
Area:
55,500 sq km/21,423 sq mi
Capital:
Halifax (chief port)
Towns and Cities:
Dartmouth, Sydney, Annapolis Royal, Truro
Physical:
Chignecto Isthmus; Cobequid Mountains; Cape Breton Highlands; Annapolis
Valley; Bay of Fundy; Northumberland Strait; numerous lakes: Bras d'Or,
St Andrew's Channel; fjord coastline
Features:
Cabot Trail (Cape Breton Island); Alexander Graham Bell Museum; Fortress
Louisbourg; Fort Anne (oldest historic building in Canada); Kejimkujik
and Cape Breton national parks; Strait of Canso Superport, largest deep-water
harbour on the Atlantic coast of North America
Industries:
Coal, barite, gypsum, timber, paper, pulp, fish products (including
scallop and lobster), tourism Agriculture: dairy produce, poultry, eggs,
vegetables, fruit
Population:
(1996 est) 942,800
History:
Nova Scotia was visited by the Italian navigator Giovanni Caboto in
1497. A French settlement was established in 1605, but expelled in 1613
by English colonists from Virginia. The name of the colony was changed
from Acadia to Nova Scotia in 1621. England and France contended for
possession of the territory until Nova Scotia (which then included present-day
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) was ceded to Britain in 1713;
Cape Breton Island remained French until 1763. Nova Scotia was one of
the four original provinces of the Dominion of Canada.
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