Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Nouvelle-Écosse, Alba Nuadh New Scotland (English)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the added conquers)
BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YT NT NU
Capital	Halifax
Largest city	Halifax
Largest metro	Halifax Burghal Area
Official languages	English Regional Languages Gaelic, French
Demonym	Nova Scotian
Government
Lieutenant-Governor	Mayann Francis
Premier	Darrell Dexter (NDP)
Federal representation	in Canadian Parliament
House seats	11
Senate seats	10
Confederation	July 1, 1867 (1st, with ON, QC, NB)
Area	Ranked 12th
Total	55,283 km2 (21,345 sq mi)
Land	53,338 km2 (20,594 sq mi)
Water (%)	1,946 km2 (751 sq mi) (3.5%)
Population	Ranked 7th
Total (2010)	940,482 (est.)1
Density	17.63 /km2 (45.7 /sq mi)
GDP	Ranked 7th
Total (2006)	C$31.966 billion2
Per capita	C$34,210 (11th)
Abbreviations
Postal	NS
ISO 3166-2	CA-NS
Time zone	UTC-4
Postal cipher prefix	B
Flower	Mayflower
Tree	Red Spruce
Bird	Osprey
Website	www.gov.ns.ca
Rankings cover all provinces and territories

Coordinates: 45°13′N 62°42′W / 45.217°N 62.7°W / 45.217; -62.7 (Nova Scotia)

Nova Scotia (pronounced /ˌnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə/; Latin: Nova Scotia; English: New Scotland; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is a Canadian province amid on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the a lot of crawling arena in Atlantic Canada. Its capital, Halifax, is the above bread-and-butter centre of the region. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest arena in Canada with an breadth of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi). Its citizenry of 940,397³ as of 2009 makes it the fourth-least-populous arena of the country, admitting second-most-densely populated.

Nova Scotia's abridgement is frequently abundantly resource-based, but has adapted back the boilerplate of the 20th century. Industries such as fishing, mining, forestry and agriculture abide actual important and accept been abutting by tourism, technology, film, music and finance.

The arena includes regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki(mi'gama'gi), which covered the Maritimes, locations of Maine, Newfoundland and the Gaspé Peninsula. Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi'kmaq humans if the aboriginal European colonists arrived. In 1604, French colonists accustomed the aboriginal abiding European adjustment arctic of Florida at Port Royal, founding what would become accepted as Acadia.

The British Empire acquired ascendancy of the arena amid 1713 and 1760, and accustomed a new basic at Halifax in 1749. In 1867 Nova Scotia was one of the founding ambit of the Canadian Confederation, forth with New Brunswick and the Province of Canada (which became the abstracted ambit of Quebec and Ontario). It was called afterwards Scotland, and today humans of Scottish bank are still the better indigenous accumulation in the province.

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Climate 2 History 2.1 French Colony 2.2 Scottish Colony 2.3 French Colony 2.4 British Colony 3 Demographics 3.1 Population back 1851 3.2 Top ten counties by population 3.3 Ethnic origins 3.4 Language 3.5 Religion 4 Economy 5 Government and politics 6 Education 7 Culture 7.1 Arts 8 See also 9 Bibliography 10 Notes 11 External links

Geography

Nova Scotia is Canada's second-smallest arena in breadth afterwards Prince Edward Island. The province's acreage is the Nova Scotia peninsula amidst by the Atlantic Ocean, including abundant accolade and estuaries. Nowhere in Nova Scotia is added than 67 km (42 mi) from the ocean.⁴ Cape Breton Island, a ample island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is aswell allotment of the province, as is Sable Island, a baby island belled for its shipwrecks, about 175 km (110 mi) from the province's southern coast.

Climate

Nova Scotia lies in the mid-temperate breadth and, although the arena is about amidst by water, the altitude is afterpiece to continental rather than maritime. The temperature extremes of the continental altitude are chastened by the ocean.

Described on the bigoted vehicle-licence bowl as Canada's Ocean Playground, the sea is a above access on Nova Scotia's climate. Nova Scotia's algid winters and balmy summers are adapted and about chastened by ocean influences. The arena is amidst by three above bodies of water, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the north, the Bay of Fundy to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east. While the connected temperature of the Atlantic Ocean moderates the altitude of the south and east coasts of Nova Scotia, abundant ice accession in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence makes winters colder in arctic Nova Scotia; the banality of the Gulf's amnion beggarly that they balmy up added than the Atlantic Ocean in the summer, abating the summers in arctic Nova Scotia. Summer clearly lasts from the aboriginal Sunday in April to the Saturday afore the endure Sunday in October.

Rainfall changes from 140 centimetres (55 in) in the south to 100 centimetres (40 in) elsewhere. Nova Scotia is aswell actual blurred in places, with Halifax averaging 196 blurred canicule per year⁵ and Yarmouth 191.⁶

The boilerplate anniversary temperatures are:

• Spring from 1 °C (34 °F) to 17 °C (63 °F)
• Summer from 14 °C (57 °F) to 28 °C (82 °F)⁷
• Fall about 5 °C (41 °F) to 20 °C (68 °F)
• Winter about −20 °C (−4 °F) to 5 °C (41 °F)

Due to the ocean's abstinent aftereffect Nova Scotia is the warmest of the ambit in Canada. Nova Scotia aswell has a adequately advanced but not acute temperature range, a backward and continued summer, skies that are generally blurred or overcast; common littoral fog and apparent airheadedness of acclimate from day to day. The basic factors influencing Nova Scotia's altitude are:

• The furnishings of the westerly winds
• The alternation amid three basic air masses which assemble on the east coast
• Nova Scotia's breadth on the routes of the above eastward-moving storms
• The modifying access of the sea.

Because Nova Scotia juts out into the Atlantic, it is decumbent to abutting storms and hurricanes in the summer and autumn. About due to the about acknowledgment amnion off the bank of Nova Scotia, abutting storms are usually anemic by the time they ability Nova Scotia. There accept been 33 such storms, including 12 hurricanes, back annal were kept in 1871—about already every four years. The endure blow was category-one Hurricane Kyle in September 2008, and the endure abutting storm was Abutting Storm Noel in 2007 (downgraded from Hurricane Noel by the time the storm accomplished Nova Scotia).

History

Paleo-Indians camped at locations in abreast Nova Scotia about 11,000 years ago. Natives are believed to accept been present in the breadth amid 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Mi'kmaq, the First Nations of the arena and region, are their absolute descendants.

It is a lot of broadly believed that the Venetian charlatan John Cabot, sailing beneath the English flag, visited abreast Cape Breton in 1497.⁸

French Colony

The aboriginal European adjustment in Nova Scotia was accustomed added than a aeon after in 1604. The French, led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts accustomed the aboriginal basic for the antecedents Acadia at Port Royal that year at the arch of the Annapolis Basin. Also, French fishermen accustomed a adjustment at Canso the aforementioned year.

In 1620, the Plymouth Council for New England, beneath King James VI (of Scotland) & I (of England) appointed the accomplished shorelines of Acadia and the Mid-Atlantic colonies south to the Chesapeake Bay as New England.

Scottish Colony

The aboriginal accurate Scottish adjustment in the Americas was of Nova Scotia in 1621. On 29 September 1621, the allotment for the foundation of a antecedents was accepted by James VI to William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling and, in 1622, the aboriginal settlers larboard Scotland. This adjustment initially bootless because of difficulties in accepting a acceptable amount of accomplished emigrants, and in 1624 James VI created a new adjustment of baronets. Admission to this adjustment was acquired by sending six labourers or artisans, abundantly armed, dressed and supplied for two years, to Nova Scotia, or by paying 3,000 merks to William Alexander. For six months, no one took up this action until James accountable one to accomplish the aboriginal move.

In 1627, there was a added uptake of baronetcies and appropriately added settlers accessible to go to Nova Scotia. However, in 1627, war bankrupt out amid England and France, and the French re-established a adjustment at Port Aristocratic which they had originally settled. After that year, a accumulated Scottish and English force destroyed the French settlement, banishment them out. In 1629, the aboriginal Scottish adjustment at Port Aristocratic was inhabited. The colony's charter, in law, fabricated Nova Scotia (defined as all acreage amid Newfoundland and New England) a allotment of acreage Scotland; this was after acclimated to get about the English navigation acts. However, this did not endure long: in 1631, beneath King Charles I, the Treaty of Suza was active which alternate Nova Scotia to the French. The Scots were affected by Charles to carelessness their mission afore their antecedents had been appropriately established, and the French affected ascendancy of the Mi'kmaq and added Aboriginal Nations territory.

French Colony

In 1654, King Louis XIV of France appointed blueblood Nicholas Denys as Governor of Acadia and accepted him the confiscated acreage and the appropriate to its minerals. English colonists captured Acadia in the advance of King William's War, but England alternate the breadth to France in the Treaty of Ryswick at the end of the war. The breadth was recaptured by armament loyal to Britain during the advance of Queen Anne's War, and its acquisition was accepted by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. France retained ascendancy of Île St Jean (Prince Edward Island) and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), on which it accustomed a breastwork at Louisbourg to bouncer the sea approaches to Quebec. This breastwork was captured by American colonial forces in 1745, afresh alternate by the British to France in 1748, afresh captured afresh during the French and Indian War, in 1758.

British Colony

Thus acreage Nova Scotia became a British antecedents in 1713, although Samuel Vetch had a ambiguous authority on the breadth as governor from the abatement of Acadian Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal) in October 1710. British administering admiral became added anxious over the abhorrence of the French-speaking, Roman Catholic Acadians, who were the majority of colonists, to agreement adherence to the British Crown, afresh George II. The antecedents remained mostly Acadian admitting the enactment of Halifax as the province's capital, and the adjustment of a ample amount of foreign Protestants (some French and Swiss but mostly German) at Lunenburg in 1753. In 1755, the British forcibly expelled over 12,000 Acadians in what became accepted as the Grand Dérangement, or Great Upheaval.⁹ The Acadians were broadcast beyond the Atlantic, in the Thirteen Colonies, Louisiana, Quebec, Britain and France.¹⁰ Actual few eventually alternate to Nova Scotia.¹¹

At the aforementioned time the British Acme began bestowing acreage grants in Nova Scotia on favoured capacity to animate adjustment and barter with the mother country. In June 1764, for instance, the Boards of Barter requested the King accomplish massive acreage grants to such Aristocratic favourites as Thomas Pownall, Richard Oswald, Humphry Bradstreet, John Wentworth, Thomas Thoroton¹² and Lincoln's Inn advocate Levett Blackborne.¹³ Two years later, in 1766, at a acquisition at the home of Levett Blackborne, an adviser to the Duke of Rutland, Oswald and his acquaintance James Grant were appear from their Nova Scotia backdrop so they could apply on their grants in British East Florida.¹⁴

The colony's administering afflicted during this time. Nova Scotia was accepted a absolute cloister in 1754 with the arrangement of Jonathan Belcher and a Legislative Assembly in 1758. In 1763 Cape Breton Island became allotment of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became a abstracted colony. The canton of Sunbury was created in 1765, and included the breadth of abreast New Brunswick and eastern Maine as far as the Penobscot River. In 1781, the French Navy auspiciously fought the Naval action of Louisbourg adjoin the Royal Navy, as a aftereffect of the Franco-American alliance adjoin Great Britain. In 1784 the western, acreage allocation of the antecedents was afar and became the arena of New Brunswick, and the breadth in Maine entered the ascendancy of the anew absolute American accompaniment of Massachusetts. Cape Breton became a abstracted antecedents in 1784 alone to be alternate to Nova Scotia in 1820.

Ancestors of added than bisected of abreast Nova Scotians accustomed in the aeon afterward the Acadian Expulsion. Amid 1759 and 1768, about 8,000 New England Planters responded to Governor Charles Lawrence's appeal for settlers from the New England colonies. Several years later, about 30,000 United Empire Loyalists (American Tories) acclimatized in Nova Scotia (when it comprised abreast Maritime Canada) afterward the defeat of the British in the American Revolutionary War. Of these 30,000, 14,000 went to New Brunswick and 16,000 went to Nova Scotia. About 3,000 of this accumulation were Black Loyalists, about a third of whom anon confused themselves to Sierra Leone in 1792 via the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, acceptable the Original settlers of Freetown.

Large numbers of Gaelic-speaking Highland Scots emigrated to Cape Breton and the western allotment of the acreage during the backward 18th century and 19th century. In 1812 Sir Hector Maclean (the 7th Baronet of Morvern and 23rd Chief of the Clan Maclean) emigrated to Pictou from Glensanda and Kingairloch in Scotland with about the absolute citizenry of 500.¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷ Sir Hector is active in the cemetery at Pictou.¹⁷

About one thousand Ulster-Scots acclimatized in mainly axial Nova Scotia during this time, as did just over a thousand agriculture migrants from Yorkshire and Northumberland amid 1772 and 1775.

Nova Scotia was the aboriginal antecedents in British Arctic America and in the British Empire to accomplish responsible government in January–February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe. Pro-Confederate arch Charles Tupper led Nova Scotia into the Canadian Confederation in 1867, forth with New Brunswick and the Province of Canada.

In the bigoted acclamation of 1868, the Anti-Confederation Party won 18 out of 19 federal seats, and 36 out of 38 seats in the bigoted legislature. For seven years, William Annand and Joseph Howe led the ultimately bootless action to argue British administrative authorities to absolution Nova Scotia from Confederation. The government was vocally adjoin Confederation, alienated that it was no added than the accession of the arena to the above-mentioned arena of Canada:

"...the arrangement [confederation with Canada] by them assented to would, if adopted, bankrupt the humans [of Nova Scotia] of the costive advantage of self-government, and of their rights, alternative and independence, rob them of their revenue, yield from them the adjustment of barter and taxation, betrayal them to approximate taxation by a assembly over which they accept no control, and in which they would acquire but a nominal and absolutely abortive representation; bankrupt them of their invaluable fisheries, railways, and added property, and abate this ahead free, happy, and absolute arena to a base action of a abject annex of Canada."

– from Address to the Acme by the Government (Journal of the House of Assembly, Arena of Nova Scotia, 1868)

A motion anesthetized by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1868 abnegation to recognise the angary of Amalgamation has never been rescinded. Repeal, as anti-confederation became known, would rear its arch afresh in the 1880s, and transform into the Maritime Rights Movement in the 1920s. Some Nova Scotia flags flew at bisected mast on Dominion Day as backward as that time.

Demographics

Population back 1851

Year	Population	Five Year  % change	Ten Year  % change
1851	276,854	n/a	n/a
1861	330,857	n/a	19.5
1871	387,800	n/a	17.2
1881	440,572	n/a	13.6
1891	450,396	n/a	2.2
1901	459,574	n/a	2.0
1911	492,338	n/a	7.1
1921	523,837	n/a	6.4
1931	512,846	n/a	-2.1
1941	577,962	n/a	12.7
1951	642,584	n/a	11.2
1956	694,717	8.1	n/a
1961	737,007	6.1	14.7
1966	756,039	2.6	8.8
1971	788,965	4.4	7.0
1976	828,570	5.0	9.6
1981	847,442	2.3	7.4
1986	873,175	3.0	5.4
1991	899,942	3.1	6.2
1996	909,282	1.0	4.1
2001	908,007	-0.1	0.9
2006	913,462	0.6	0.5

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Top ten counties by population

County	2001	2006
Halifax (county)	359,183	372,858
Cape Breton (county)	109,330	105,928
Kings County	58,866	60,035
Colchester County	49,307	50,023
Lunenburg County	47,591	47,150
Pictou County	46,965	46,513
Hants County	40,513	41,182
Cumberland County	32,605	32,046
Yarmouth County	26,843	26,277
Annapolis County	21,773	21,438

Ethnic origins

According to the 2001 Canadian census¹⁹ the better indigenous accumulation in Nova Scotia is Scottish (29.3%), followed by English (28.1%), Irish (19.9%), French (16.7%), German (10.0%), Dutch (3.9%), First Nations (3.2%), Welsh (1.4%), Italian (1.3%), and Acadian (1.2%). Peoples of European bank appropriately accomplish up about 96.8% of the absolute population. About bisected of respondents (47.4%) articular their ethnicity as "Canadian".

Language

The 2006 Canadian census showed a citizenry of 913,462.
Of the 899,270 atypical responses to the demography catechism apropos 'mother tongue' the most-commonly appear languages were:

Rank	Language	Respondants	Percentage
1.	English	833,105	92.53%
2.	French	32,540	3.62%
3.	Arabic	4,425	0.49%
4.	Mi'kmaq	4,060	0.45%
5.	German	4,045	0.45%
6.	Chinese	3,370	0.37%
7.	Dutch	2,440	0.27%
8.	Polish	1,570	0.17%
9.	Spanish	1,305	0.15%
10.	Greek	1,035	0.12%
11.	Italian	905	0.10%
12.	Korean	860	0.10%
13.	Gaelic	799	0.10%

In addition, there were aswell 105 responses of both English and a 'non-official language'; 25 of both French and a 'non-official language'; 495 of both English and French; 10 of English, French, and a 'non-official language'; and about 10,300 humans who either did not acknowledge to the question, or appear assorted non-official languages, or abroad gave accession unenumerated response. Figures apparent are for the amount of individual accent responses and the allotment of absolute single-language responses.²⁰

Religion

The better denominations by amount of adherents according to the 2001 demography were the Roman Catholic Church with 327,940 (37 %); the United Church of Canada with 142,520 (16 %); and the Anglican Church of Canada with 120,315 (13 %).²¹

Economy

Nova Scotia's frequently resource-based economy has become added assorted in contempo decades. The acceleration of Nova Scotia as a applicable administering in Arctic America was apprenticed by the accessible availability of accustomed resources, abnormally the angle stocks off the Scotian shelf. The fishery was colonnade of the abridgement back its development as allotment of the abridgement of New France in the 17th century; however, the fishery suffered a aciculate abatement due to overfishing in the backward twentieth century. The collapse of the cod stocks and the cease of this breadth resulted in a accident of about 20,000 jobs in 1992.²² Per capita GDP in 2005 was $31,344,²³ lower than the civic boilerplate per capita GDP of $34,273 and beneath than bisected that of Canada's richest province, Alberta.

Due, in part, to a able small-business sector, Nova Scotia now has one of the fastest-growing economies in Canada.^{citation needed} Baby business makes up 92.2% of the bigoted economy.²⁴ Mining, abnormally of gypsum and alkali and to a bottom admeasurement silica, peat and barite, is aswell a cogent sector.²⁵ Back 1991, offshore oil and gas has become an added important allotment of the economy. Agriculture charcoal an important breadth in the province. In the axial allotment of Nova Scotia, lumber and paper industries are amenable for abundant of the application opportunities.

Nova Scotia’s defence and aerospace breadth generates about $500 actor in revenues and contributes about $1.5 billion to the bigoted abridgement annually.²⁶ To date, 40% of Canada’s aggressive assets abide in Nova Scotia.²⁷ Nova Scotia has the fourth-largest film industry in Canada hosting over 100 productions yearly, added than bisected of which are the online writing of all-embracing blur and television producers.²⁸ Recently, the video bold industry has developed with the actualization of developers such as HB Studios and Silverback Productions. The arena fabricated all-embracing annual with an investment by Longtail Studios in 2009.²⁹

The Nova Scotia tourism industry includes added than 6,500 absolute businesses, acknowledging about 40,000 jobs.³⁰ 200,000 cruise ship cartage from about the apple breeze through the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia anniversary year.³¹ This industry contributes about $1.3 billion annually to the economy.³² The arena aswell boasts a rapidly developing Information & Communication Technology (ICT) breadth which consists of over 500 companies, and employs about 15,000 people.³³ The Life Sciences breadth in the arena is flourishing; some of the a lot of beat activity sciences companies in the apple can be begin in Nova Scotia.³⁴ In 2006, the accomplishment breadth brought in over $2.6 billion in chained GDP, the better achievement of any automated breadth in Nova Scotia.³⁵ There are currently over 360 firms in the Insurance Industry of Nova Scotia; there is a forecasted 25% advance in application for this industry in the arena over the next three years.³⁶

The boilerplate assets of a Nova Scotian ancestors is $47,100, baronial abutting to the civic average; for Halifax, the boilerplate ancestors assets is $58,262, which far surpasses the civic average.^{citation needed} This, forth with the province’s awful affordable absolute estate, makes Nova Scotia a cost-effective abode to live.³⁷ Halifax ranks a allotment of the top 5 a lot of cost-effective places to do business if compared to ample all-embracing centres in Arctic America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.²⁴

Nova Scotia has a amount of allurement programs, including tax refunds and credits that plan to animate baby business growth.³⁸ The arena is alluring above companies from all over the apple that will advice ammunition the abridgement and accommodate jobs; companies like Research in Motion (RIM) and Lockheed Martin accept apparent the amount of Nova Scotia and accustomed branches in the province.³⁹

Though alone the additional aboriginal arena in Canada, Nova Scotia is a accustomed exporter. The arena is the world’s better exporter of Christmas trees, lobster, gypsum, and wild berries.⁴⁰ Its consign amount of angle exceeds $1 billion, and angle online writing are accustomed by 90 countries about the world.⁴¹

Government and politics

The government of Nova Scotia is a aldermanic democracy. Its unicameral legislature, the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, consists of fifty-two members. As Canada's arch of state, Queen Elizabeth II is the arch of Nova Scotia's Executive Council, which serves as the Cabinet of the bigoted government. Her Majesty's duties in Nova Scotia are agitated out by her representative, the Lieutenant-Governor, currently Mayann E. Francis. The government is headed by the Premier, Darrell Dexter, who took appointment June 19, 2009. Halifax is home to the House of Assembly and Government House, the abode of the Lieutenant-Governor.

The province's acquirement comes mainly from the taxation of claimed and accumulated income, although taxes on tobacco and alcohol, its pale in the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, and oil and gas royalties are aswell significant. In 2006-07, the arena anesthetized a annual of $6.9 billion, with a projected $72 million surplus. Federal equalization payments annual for $1.385 billion, or 20.07% of the bigoted revenue. While Nova Scotians accept enjoyed counterbalanced budgets for years, the accumulated debt exceeds $12 billion (including forecasts of approaching liability, such as pensions and ecology cleanups), consistent in hardly over $897 million in debt application payments, or 12.67% of expenses.⁴² The arena participates in the HST, a attenuated sales tax calm by the federal government application the GST tax system.

Nova Scotia has adopted three minority governments over the endure decade. The Progressive Conservative government of John Hamm, and Rodney MacDonald, has appropriate the abutment of the New Democratic Party or Liberal Party back the acclamation in 2003. Nova Scotia's politics are disconnected on bounded curve in such a way that it has become difficult to accept a majority government. Rural acreage Nova Scotia has abundantly been accumbent abaft the Progressive Conservative Party, Halifax Bounded Municipality has overwhelmingly accurate the New Democrats, with Cape Breton voting for Liberals with a few Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats. This has resulted in a three-way breach of votes on a province-wide base for anniversary affair and adversity in any affair accepting a majority.

The a lot of contempo acclamation of June 9, 2009, adopted 31 New Democrats, 11 Liberals and 10 Progressive Conservatives consistent in Nova Scotia's aboriginal New Democratic government, and aboriginal majority government in about a decade.

Nova Scotia no best has any congenital cities; they were affiliated into Regional Municipalities in 1996. Halifax, the bigoted capital, is now allotment of the Halifax Bounded Municipality, as is Dartmouth, aforetime the province's additional better city. The above cities of Sydney and Glace Bay are now allotment of the Cape Breton Bounded Municipality.

The House of Assembly anesthetized a motion in 2004 agreeable the Turks and Caicos Islands to accompany the province, should these Caribbean islands renew their ambition to accompany Canada.

Education

The Minister of Apprenticeship is amenable for the administering and supply of education, as authentic by the Apprenticeship Act⁴³ and added acts apropos to colleges, universities and clandestine schools. The admiral of the Minister and the Department of Apprenticeship are authentic by the Ministerial regulations and accountable by the Governor-In-Council regulations.

Nova Scotia has added than 450 accessible schools for children. The accessible arrangement offers primary to Grade 12. There are aswell clandestine schools in the province. Accessible apprenticeship is administered by seven bounded academy boards, amenable primarily for English apprenticeship and French immersion, and aswell province-wide by the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial, which administrate French apprenticeship to acceptance for whom the primary accent is French.

The Nova Scotia Association College arrangement has 13 campuses about the province. The association college, with its focus on training and education, was accustomed in 1988 by amalgamating the province's above abstruse schools.

In accession to its association academy arrangement the arena has 11 universities, including Dalhousie University, University of King's College, Saint Mary's University (Halifax), Mount Saint Vincent University, NSCAD University, Acadia University, Université Sainte-Anne, Saint Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Cape Breton University and the Atlantic Academy of Theology.

There are aswell added than 90 registered clandestine bartering colleges in Nova Scotia.⁴⁴

Culture

Despite the baby citizenry of the province, Nova Scotia's music and ability is afflicted by absolute cultural groups, which are sometimes referred to as the "founding cultures".

The absolute arena absolute the abreast arena was originally busy by the Mi'kmaq First Nation. The aboriginal European settlers were the French, who founded Acadia in 1604. Nova Scotia was briefly colonized by Scottish settlers in 1620, admitting by 1624 the Scottish settlers had been removed by accord and the breadth was angry over to the French until the mid-18th century. Afterwards the defeat of the French and above-mentioned banishment of the Acadians, settlers of English, Irish, Scottish and African bank began accession on the shores of Nova Scotia.

Settlement was abundantly accelerated by the resettlement of Loyalists in Nova Scotia during the aeon afterward the end of the American Revolutionary War. It was during this time that a ample African Nova Scotian association took root, busy by freed disciplinarian and Loyalist blacks and their families, who had fought for the acme in barter for land. This association after grew if the Royal Navy began intercepting slave ships destined for the United States, and deposited these chargeless disciplinarian on the shores of Nova Scotia.

Later, in the 19th century the Irish Famine and, especially, the Scottish Highland Clearances resulted in ample influxes of migrants with Celtic cultural roots, which helped to ascertain the dominantly Celtic appearance of Cape Breton and the arctic acreage of the province. This Gaelic access continues to play an important role in defining the cultural activity of the arena and about 500 to 2000 Nova Scotians today are chatty in Scottish Gaelic. About all reside in Antigonish Canton or on Cape Breton Island.⁴⁵⁴⁶

Modern Nova Scotia is a mix of cultures. The government works to abutment Mi'kmaq, French, Gaelic and African-Nova Scotian ability through the enactment of government secretariats, as able-bodied as colleges, educational programs and cultural centres. The arena is aswell acquisitive to allure new immigrants,⁴⁷ but has had bound success. The above citizenry centres at Halifax and Sydney are the a lot of cosmopolitan, hosting ample Arab populations (in the former) and Eastern European populations (in the latter). Halifax Bounded Municipality hosts a annual multicultural festival.⁴⁸

Arts

Nova Scotia has continued been a centre for aesthetic and cultural excellence. Halifax has emerged as the arch cultural centre in the Atlantic region.^{citation needed} The city-limits hosts such institutions such as Nova Scotia Academy of Art and Design University, and the Symphony Nova Scotia, the alone abounding orchestra assuming in Atlantic Canada. The arena is home to beat beheld art and acceptable crafting, autograph and publishing and a blur industry.

While accepted music has accomplished about two decades of atomic advance and success in Nova Scotia, the arena charcoal best accepted for its folk and acceptable based music.^{citation needed} Nova Scotia's acceptable (or folk) music is Scottish in character, and traditions from Scotland are kept accurate to form, in some cases added so than in Scotland. This is abnormally accurate with Cape Breton Island, a above all-embracing centre for Celtic music. On acreage Nova Scotia, decidedly in some of the rural villages throughout Guysborough County, Irish-influenced styles of music are frequently played, due to the advantage of Irish ability in abounding of the county's villages.^{citation needed}

See also

Wikiproject Nova Scotia Scotia List of airports in Nova Scotia List of online autograph on Nova Scotia by topic List of acclaimed Nova Scotians The Gaelic Accent in Canada List of Nova Scotia schools

Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Bounded Municipality Halifax Bounded Municipality Sable Island Bay of Fundy - acclaimed for accepting the world's accomplished tides Kejimkujik Civic Park List of parks in Nova Scotia List of Nova Scotia counties List of communities in Nova Scotia

List of Nova Scotia rivers Symbols of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia House of Assembly List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors List of Nova Scotia premiers List of cities in Canada List of Nova Scotia bigoted highways List of Canadian bigoted and territorial symbols Sunday shopping

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Nova Scotia portal Book:Canada Books are collections of online autograph that can be downloaded or ordered in print.

Bibliography

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External links

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Official links

• Government of Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia - Come To life (Main aperture website for tourism, immigration, business, etc. links)
• Tourism Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia Bigoted Parks

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• Nova Scotia at the Open Directory Project
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• Photographs of War Memorials & Historic Monuments in Nova Scotia
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