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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia, one of the Maritime provinces of Canada, bordered on the N. by the Bay of Fundy, the province of New Brunswick, Northumberland Strait, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and on the East, South, and West by the Atlantic Ocean.

Nova Scotia consists primarily of a mainland section, linked to NewBrunswick by the Isthmus of Chignecto, and Cape Breton Island, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso.

Nova Scotia is sometimes known as the land of Evangeline, a reference to the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, about the expulsion of the French-speaking Acadians from the area in 1755.

On July 1, 1867. Nova Scotia became one of the founding members of the Canadian Confederation. The province's name, which is Latin for New Scotland, was first applied to the region in the 1620's