Portal:Nova Scotia
Introduction
Nova Scotia is a province in The Maritimes region of Canada, located on the nation's east coast. With an estimated population of over 1 million as of 2025, Nova Scotia is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. Nova Scotia is also the second-most densely populated province in Canada, and the second smallest province by area. The province comprises the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island, as well as 3,800 other coastal islands. The province is connected to the rest of Canada by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's sole land border, with New Brunswick, is located.
Nova Scotia's capital and largest city is Halifax, which is home to over 45% of the province's population as of the 2021 census. Halifax is the twelfth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada, the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada, and Canada's second-largest coastal municipality after Vancouver.
In subsequent years, the British began settling "foreign Protestants" in the region and deported the French-speaking Acadians en masse. During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), thousands of Loyalists settled in Nova Scotia. (Full article...)
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Dalhousie University is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and two satellite medical school campuses, in Saint John, New Brunswick and in Cape Breton. Dalhousie offers over 200 degree programs in 13 undergraduate, graduate, and professional faculties. The university is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.
The institution was established as Dalhousie College, a nonsectarian institution established in 1818 by the eponymous Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, with education reformer Thomas McCulloch as its first principal. However, the college did not hold its first class until 1838, with operations remaining sporadic due to financial difficulties. The college was reorganized in 1863 and renamed The Governors of Dalhousie College and University. The university formally changed its name to Dalhousie University in 1997 through the same provincial legislation that merged the institution with the Technical University of Nova Scotia. (Full article...)
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The coat of arms of Nova Scotia is the heraldic symbol representing the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is the oldest provincial achievement of arms in Canada, and the oldest Scottish coat of arms in use outside Scotland. It is blazoned as follows: Argent, a saltire azure charged with an escutcheon of the Royal Arms of Scotland. (Full article...)
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Portia May White (June 24, 1911 – February 13, 1968) was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, White competed in local singing competitions as a teenager and later trained at the Halifax Conservatory of Music. In 1941 and 1944, she made her national and international debuts as a singer, receiving critical acclaim for her performances of both classical European music and African-American spirituals. White later completed tours throughout Europe, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
When vocal difficulties and cancer eventually contributed to her retirement in 1952, White settled in Toronto and subsequently taught young Canadian musicians such as Lorne Greene, Dinah Christie, Don Francks, Robert Goulet and Anne Marie Moss. One of White's final major public appearances was a special command performance for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1964. (Full article...)
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Winter on Hollis Street, Halifax (1947) -
Welcome sign visible when entering Nova Scotia from New Brunswick by road -
The Order of Nova Scotia is the highest honour amongst all those conferred by the Nova Scotia Crown -
The Lunenburg Academy in 2008 -
Halifax from Citadel Hill in 1901 -
The Pride of Baltimore II off the coast of Lunenburg in 2008 -
Children tobogganing in Halifax during the reconstruction (1917 or 1918) -
The Halifax–Dartmouth Ferry Service is the oldest saltwater ferry in North America -
North Sydney, Nova Scotia circa 1900 -
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Women walking from Africville towards Halifax -
Guardhouse at the Fortress of Louisbourg -
Wrecked homes on Campbell Road following the Halifax Explosion -
Wreckage of Fairey Swordfish aircraft HS404 at the Naval Air Gunnery School, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1943 -
The Bluenose II is a replica of the fishing and racing schooner Bluenose -
Université Sainte-Anne is a French-language university in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia
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