Nova Scotia

[ noh-vuh skoh-shuh ]

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noun

a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). : Halifax.
Informal. Nova Scotia salmon.

Nova Scotia

/ ˈnəʊvə ˈskəʊʃə /

noun

a peninsula in E Canada, between the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy
a province of E Canada, consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island: first settled by the French as Acadia. Capital: Halifax. Pop: 936 960 (2004 est). Area: 52 841 sq km (20 402 sq miles)

Nova Scotia

Province in eastern Canada , including a peninsula to the east of New Brunswick and Cape Breton Island, as well as several smaller adjacent islands. With New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island , Nova Scotia makes up the Maritime Provinces . Halifax is its capital and largest city.

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Notes

French settlers, who called the area Acadia, were expelled by the British in the 1750s. Many of the exiled Acadians settled in Louisiana and became the ancestors of today's Cajuns.

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Other Word Forms

Nova Scotian adjective noun

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This kit from H&H delivers the chewy New York-style bagels, thick schmears of cream cheese and perfectly salty slices of Nova Scotia salmon.

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Kaur, who lives in Nova Scotia, said Trump’s threats to turn the nation’s northern neighbor into the “51st state” have made people angry.

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"Luckett Phone Box Red wine, which is from right here in Nova Scotia, is great," he says.

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She is speaking to BBC News from the Bus Stop Theatre, an intimate auditorium with a little under 100 seats, in the eastern city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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To achieve the special effects of the solar eclipse, the house was reassembled on the largest blue screen sound stage in the world, constructed ad hoc at a hockey arena in Nova Scotia.

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Novara Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever

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