Nova Scotia

**Nova Scotia**
	province of Canada
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Instance of	province of Canada;
Named after	Scotland;
Location	Canada
Located in or next to body of water	Atlantic Ocean; Bay of Fundy; Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Northumberland Strait;
Capital	Halifax;
Basic form of government	parliamentary system;
Legislative body	General Assembly of Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia House of Assembly, Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia);
Executive body	Government of Nova Scotia;
Official language	English;
Currency	Canadian dollar (1871–);
Head of state	Charles III (Arthur Joseph LeBlanc, 2022–);
Head of government	Tim Houston (2021–);
Inception	1867;
Highest point	White Hill (535 ±1 m);
Population	969,383 (2021);
Area	55,283 km²;
Replaces	Nova Scotia;
Different from	Nova Scotia peninsula;
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	45° 00′ 00″ N, 63° 00′ 00″ W
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Location in Canada
Halifax
Lobster traps on a dock in Sheet Harbour. The province is the world's largest exporter of lobsters
Peggys Point Lighthouse in Peggys Cove is a tourist attraction in the province
Population density map of Nova Scotia (c. 2016) with county and regional municipality borders shown
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is the provincial art gallery of Nova Scotia
[Université Sainte-Anne is a Francophone university situated in Pointe-de-l'Église
A farm in Grafton
A cruise ship docked at the Port of Halifax. The port sees more than 200,000 cruise passengers each year

History

Expulsion of the Acadians in Grand-Pré. More than 80 per cent of the Acadian population was expelled from the region between 1755 and 1764
Mi'kmaq family in Tuft's Cove, 1871. The Mi'kmaq inhabited Nova Scotia when the first Europeans arrived
HMS Shannon leading the captured USS Chesapeake into Halifax during the War of 1812
Inauguration of the Sebastopol Monument in 1860. The monument was built to honour Nova Scotians who fought in the Crimean War
The Bluenose in 1921. The racing ship became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia in the 1920s and 1930s