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Nova Scotia ( / ˌnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə / NOH-və SKOH-shə; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh, lit. 'New Scotland') is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland ".
Distribution of Nova Scotia's 27 towns by population. A town is a type of municipality in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia. Towns are incorporated by order by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board pursuant to sections 383 through 388 of Nova Scotia's Municipal Government Act. Nova Scotia had 26 towns at the time of the 2016 Census. In ...
Website. halifax .ca. Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of 2022, it is estimated that the population of the Halifax CMA was 480,582, [6] with 348,634 people in its urban area. [3] The regional municipality consists of four ...
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.. The museum is a member institution of the Nova Scotia Museum and is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada with a collection of over 30,000 artifacts including 70 small craft and a steamship: the CSS Acadia, a 180-foot steam-powered hydrographic survey ship launched in 1913.
Port-Royal National Historic Site is a National Historic Site located on the north bank of the Annapolis Basin in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada.The site is the location of the Habitation at Port-Royal, which was the centre of activity for the French colony of Port Royal in Acadia from 1605 to 1613 when it was destroyed by English forces from the Colony of Virginia.
1991. Annapolis Royal. 44°44′31″N 65°30′58″W. / 44.74194°N 65.51611°W / 44.74194; -65.51611 ( Annapolis County Court House) One of the oldest court houses in Canada still in original use, and a noted example of Palladian architecture in this country.
Wreck Cove is the largest hydroelectric system in Nova Scotia with a generating capacity of 215.8 MW. [2] [3] Constructed from 1975 to 1978, south of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Wreck Cove collects drainage water from 216 square kilometres (83 sq mi) of the Cape Breton Highlands plateau to generate renewable electricity.
North Preston is a community located in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Halifax Regional Municipality.. The community is populated primarily by Black Nova Scotians.North Preston is the largest Black community in Nova Scotia by population, and has the highest concentration of African Canadians of any community in Canada.