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Parliamentary
representationParliament Hill's Centre Block houses both the Commons and Senate. The Parliament of Canada (in French: le Parlement du Canada is Canada's legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. According to Section 17 of the Constitution Act, 1
House seatsThe House of Commons (in French, la Chambre des communes is the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of Canada which sits in the nation's capital of Ottawa, Ontario. Leadership Prime Minister and Cabinet Under the Westminster system, the prime m
Senate seatsThe Senate of Canada is the upper house of the Parliament of Canada. The senate has 105 members who are appointed by the Governor General on advice from the Prime Minister and serve until the age of 75. 24 from Ontario; 24 from Quebec; 24 are from the Mar

PremierRobert Stanfield, 21st Premier ( 1956- 1967) The Premier of Nova Scotia is the first minister for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive. The current Premier of Nova Scotia is John Ham

John HammThe Honourable John Hamm MLA, MD, ( April 8, 1938 ) is the current premier of Nova Scotia, Canada. Hamm, a graduate of the University of King's College, was a family doctor in his hometown of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and the president of the Nova Scotia (PC)

Lieutenant-Governor

Myra A. Freeman

Government of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia ( Latin for New Scotland; “Alba Nuadh” in Scottish Gaelic, French la Nouvelle-Écosse) is a Canadian province on the North Atlantic coast. Nova Scotia has an area of 55,500 km² and a population of about 940,000 (Nova Scotians). Its capital is Halifax.

1 Geography

The province's mainland is a peninsula, connected to mainland North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotian mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately 175 km from the province's southern coast. Nova Scotia is Canada's second smallest province in area (after Prince Edward Island), and no point in Nova Scotia is more than 56 km from the sea.

See below for a map.

2 History

The native population of the province are collectively known as the Mi'kmaq.

Although first visited by the explorer John Cabot, an Italian sailing for England, in 1497, Nova Scotia was first settled by the Acadian French under Sieur de Monts. They made their first capital, after a failed attempt in 1604 on Île Ste. Croix in present-day New Brunswick, in 1605 at Port Royal, later renamed by the British to Annapolis Royal , which is located at the head of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia.

In 1620, the Plymouth Council for New England, under James I of England/James VI of Scotland designated the whole shorelines of Acadia and the Mid-Atlantic colonies south to the Chesapeake Bay, New England. In the later 1620s, a group of Scots was sent by Charles I of England and Scotland to set up the colony. (The Latin name was so stated in Sir William Alexander's 1621 land grant.) However owing to the signing of a peace treaty with France, the territory was given to the French and the Scots ordered to abandon their mission before their colony was properly established. The French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island was established to guard the sea approaches to Quebec. This fortress was captured by American colonial forces, then returned by the British to France, then ceded again after the French and Indian War.

The British were very concerned about how dominated the colony was by the French-speaking and Catholic Acadians. In 1750 a large number of foreign Protestants, mostly Germans, were imported and settled along the South Shore. The colony was still mostly Acadian, however, and the British decided to forcibly expel the Acadians this became known as the Great Expulsion.

Scots emigration to Cape Breton Island in the north of the province took place in the late 18th and early 19th century. Some Scottish Gaelic is still spoken there, and some Scots is spoken across Nova Scotia.

In 1763 Nova Scotia encompassed almost all of Acadia (except the Magdalen Islands), the present Canadian Maritimes. In 1769 St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) was separated. In 1784 the western, mainland portion of the colony was separated and became the province of New Brunswick, and Cape Breton also was a separate province from 1784 to 1820. These changes reflected the grievances of United Empire Loyalists who settled there after being expelled from the USA following the defeat of the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of Confederation, along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario.

The Bluenose, which appears on the Canadian ten-cent piece (dime) was built in Lunenburg, a town on the South Shore.

In April 2004 936,510 people lived in Nova Scotia.

3 Map

4 See also

Provinces and territories of Canada
Provinces: British Columbia \| Alberta \| Saskatchewan \| Manitoba \| Ontario \| Quebec \| New Brunswick \| Nova Scotia \| Prince Edward Island \| Newfoundland and Labrador
Territories: Yukon \| Northwest Territories \| Nunavut

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