Nova Scotia is a small, resource-based province on Canada’s southeast coast. It was settled by Paleo-Indians and later by the French, Scots, and English. Its economy centers on fishing, logging, mining, and agriculture, but has expanded to include tourism, film production, and technology. The province has a harsh climate and a reputation for taciturnity. Few Nova Scotians still speak Scots or have Scottish heritage.
Nova Scotia is a province located on the southeast coast of Canada, directly below New Brunswick. It is one of four colonies that participated in the founding of Confederacy, then Canada, in 1867. Nova Scotia’s capital is Halifax, a port city with a population of approximately 359,000, nearly one-third of the province’s entire population. Nova Scotia is one of three provinces that make up the Maritimes – the other two being New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Nova Scotia is Canada’s second smallest province and one of the least populous.
Paleo-Indians used Nova Scotia as a campground as early as 9000 BC, and later native peoples also settled and used the area. The Mi’qmak are their modern descendants. The province was first settled by the French in 1604, although it may have been visited by Europeans as early as 1497, when John Cabot landed somewhere along the east coast.
Beginning in 1624, Scotland attempted to send settlers to Nova Scotia, finally settling at Port Royal in 1629, but was soon thereafter forced to cede the site to the French. After some land swaps back and forth, Nova Scotia came under English control with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Curiously, although Nova Scotia was one of Canada’s founding provinces, numerous attempts to repeal the Confederacy were carried out over the 1980s. 1920.
Nova Scotia has a traditionally resource-based economy centered on fishing, logging, mining for coal and other minerals, and agriculture, although in the late 20th century Nova Scotia expanded its sources of income to include the tourism, film production and technology. The province is known for its very harsh winters and somewhat taciturn population. Numerous vessels have been wrecked in Nova Scotia’s vicinity, thanks to treacherous ocean conditions, including the Titanic in 2012. The province has a number of distinctive bays and estuaries that provide a large base from which to fish.
Fewer than a thousand Nova Scotians still speak Scots or have other remnants of Scottish heritage. Most of these inhabitants live on Cape Breton Island, in the north of the province.
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