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Nova Scotia

province, Canada

Written by Brendan Anthony O'Grady, Barry MoodySee All

Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated: Apr 10, 2024 • Article History

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Seal of Nova Scotia

FLORAL EMBLEM: Trailing Arbutus (Mayflower).

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Capital:: Halifax

Population:: (2021) 969,383; (2023 est.) 1,066,416

Date Of Admission:: 1867

Provincial Motto:: "Munit haec et altera vincit (One defends and the other conquers)"

Provincial Flower:: mayflower

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Nova Scotia, Canadian province located on the eastern seaboard of North America, one of the four original provinces (along with New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec) that constituted the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Roughly 360 miles (580 km) long but not more than about 80 miles (130 km) wide at any point, the province comprises the peninsula of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island (separated from the mainland to the southwest by the narrow Strait of Canso), and a number of small adjacent islands. Along the narrow Chignecto Isthmus, which seems to thrust the peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean, runs the ...(100 of 3380 words)

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