The government of Nova Scotia is a parliamentary democracy. Its unicameral legislature -- the Nova Scotia House of Assembly -- consists of 52 members. As Canada's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is the Government of Nova Scotia's chief executive. Her duties in Nova Scotia are carried out by Lieutenant Governor, Myra Freedman. The government is headed by the Premier, John Hamm. The Halifax Regional Munic ...

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Nova Scotia - Population. Nova Scotia is the seventh most populated province in Canada with an estimated 938,116 residents as of October 1, 2005. It accounts for 3% of the population of Canada. The population density is approximately 17 persons/km². Roughly 60% of the population live in rural parts of the province. In about 1861, the population was about 331 000 people and the population of Halifax alone was 29 580. Nova Scotia - Employment. Unemployment is 8.0% of the work force, as of November 2005. Nova Scotia - Per capita income. I ...

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The Town of Antigonish is currently embroiled in a dispute with Antigonish County over the issue of annexation/amalgamation. Antigonish, Nova Scotia - Causes. The issue primarily relates to availability of land within town boundaries. Constant development has reduced the amount of undeveloped land within the town. According to Town officials, there is no longer enough land remaining for future expansion of the town. Town officials also suggest that this lack of vacant land is forcing new development into t ...

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Cape Breton Island Lake Ainslie Bras d'Or Lake Loch Lomond Halifax Regional Municipality A Lake Albro Lake Anderson Lake Ash Lake Lake Banook Baptizing Lake Barrett Lake Bayers Lake Beaver Lake Beaverbank Lake Bell Lake Big Horseshoe Lake Birch Cove Lake Bissett Lake Blueberry Lake Bottle Lake Camphill Lake Crotched Lake ...

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Nova Scotia no longer has any incorporated cities, they were amalgamated into Regional Municipalities. Halifax, Nova Scotia - provincial capital, now part of the Halifax Regional Municipality Sydney, Nova Scotia - former city, now part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Dartmouth, Nova Scotia is a former city now part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. See also:

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Green Party candidates 2004 Canadian federal election - Chris Milburn Sydney—Victoria. Milburn is a physician. He was born in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and trained in emergency and family medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He held several medical positions in and around the Kingston area after graduating, including a stint as a clinic doctor in Lansdowne after the small community lost its previous doctor (KWS, 22 November 2000). Milburn is also a skilled athlete, and has ...

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See also individual articles on Nova Scotia History. Paleo-Indians camped at locations in present-day Nova Scotia approximately 11,000 years ago. Archaic Indians are believed to have been present in the area between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Mi'kmaq, the First Nations of the province and region, are their direct descendants. While the Italian explorer John Cabot visited present-day Cape Breton in 1497 the first European settlement in Nova Scotia was not established until 1604. The French, lead by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts established the first capital for the colony Acadia at Port Royal in 1 ...

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See also individual articles on Nova Scotia History. Paleo-Indians camped at locations in present-day Nova Scotia approximately 11,000 years ago. Archaic Indians are believed to have been present in the area between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago. Mi'kmaq, the First Nations of the province and region, are their direct descendants. While there is some debate over where he landed, it is most widely believed that the Italian explorer John Cabot visited present-day Cape Breton in 1497. [[2]]. The first European settlement in Nova ...

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Antigonish is a Canadian town in north-eastern Nova Scotia and the county seat of Antigonish County. It is also the episcopal seat of the Catholic Diocese of Antigonish and home to St. Francis Xavier University. The oldest continuous highland games in North America are held every summer in Antigonish. Antigonish Nova Scotia - History. The name Antigonish is of Mi'kmaq origin and is believed to refer to the place where tree branches are torn off by bears gathering beech nuts. The fi ...

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Windsor is a small town located in central Nova Scotia at the junction of the Avon and St. Croix Rivers. It is the largest community in western Hants County with a 2001 population of 3,778. Windsor is 66 kilometres northwest of Halifax, approximately 20 kilometres from the eastern end of the Annapolis Valley. Windsor used to be a railway junction for the Dominion Atlantic Railway where a route to T ...

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Today Truro is known as the "Hub of Nova Scotia" as it is located at the junction between the Canadian National Railway, running between Halifax and Montreal, and the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway, running between Truro and Sydney. Until the 1980s, Truro also hosted a junction between the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway's former Dominion Atlantic Railway line running through Windsor ...

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Canadian citizens who are current or former long-term residents of the province are eligible to be nominated for and to receive the Order. Members of the House of Assembly or the legislative assembly of a province, or members of the Senate or the House of Commons of Canada; and judges of a court are not eligible to be nominated for or to receive the Order while they are in office. ...

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Liverpool was founded as a fishing port in 1759, and named after Liverpool in England—which also lies on a Mersey River. The town only grew to prominence after the American Revolutionary War when it was populated by Loyalist refugees. During the war, Liverpool was used by privateers who preyed on American shipping off Nova Scotia's and New England's coasts. During the 19th century the town became a major seaport as the fishing and ship building industries grew. The town also became a leading exporter of timber which was float ...

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Although Africville was an extremely poor community, the social cohesion of its residents was strong. They fought for and won the right in the 1950s to receive municipal services, but the city council's agreement in principle was never translated into any action. By 1960, the area was being studied by developers and municipal planners because of its prime location, and the planned construction of a second bridge to improve links between Dartmouth and Halifax. In the 1970s, the federal government's National Harbours Board was consideri ...

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Antigonish is considered to be a "service centre" as many of the local businesses are based in the service sector. There are no major industrial operations located in the town or county. The workforce is primarily white collar with the largest employers being St. Martha's Regional Hospital and St. Francis Xavier University. St. FX president, Sean Riley, is poorly regarded in town for his blundering financial record with St. FX. However, he is credited as the man who built the Millenium C ...

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Settled in earnest after the War of 1812, the community of Africville was officially founded in the 1840s. The community had a population of approximately 400 residents. The population did not fluctuate significantly in size or character from its inception to its end; it remained a ramshackle collection of houses. In the late 1850s, the Nova Scotia Railway was built from Richmond to the south, bisecting Africville as the line wound its way along the western shores of Bedford Basin. The Intercolonial Railway, later Canadian National Railways, constructed Basin Yard west of the com ...

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Tourism has been a major industry in Yarmouth since the late 19th century when the Dominion Atlantic Railway and Halifax and Southwestern Railway began to offer connections for its passengers with steamship services operating to New York City and Boston. This continued until the Second World War when the services were terminated. Canadian National Railways instituted a ferry service to Bar Harbor, Maine in the 1950s and this was continued by CN Marine and Marine Atlantic until 1997. In 1998 operation of the Bar Harbor route was transferred to Bay Ferries Limited which currently operates a high-speed catamaran ferry - HSC < ...

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The name is traced to a variation of the Mi'kmaq name "Kamsok", which roughly translates into "opposite a high bluff or high banks opposite". The area was likely home to members of the Mi'kmaq Nation due to its proximity to excellent fishing grounds. Although fishermen from Western Europe had been operating in the waters off Canso, beginning in the early part of the 16th century, the European discovery of the actual area of the town and its harbour is traced to French fishermen in 1605. The name "Canseau" was first mentioned in Marc Lescarbot's ...

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The town is located on the southern shore of Chedabucto Bay. The southern limit of the bay is at Cape Canso, a headland approximately 3 km southeast of the town. Canso Harbour is protected by the Canso Islands, a small archipelago lying immediately north and east of the mainland, with Durells Island, Piscataqui Island, George Island, and Grassy Island being the largest. Canso is the southeastern terminus of Highway 16, an important secondary ...

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