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The Natural History of Nova Scotia takes an ecological or naturalist's approach to understanding our environment. It is intended to provide a framework in which the significant natural history resources of the province can be understood, managed and interpreted. Volume I of the Natural History of Nova Scotia, Topics and Habitats, provides a ...
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Natural History of Nova Scotia. Museum of Natural History staff. Published 1996 . The Natural History of Nova Scotia takes an ecological or naturalist's approach to understanding our environment. It is intended to provide a framework in which the significant natural history resources of the province can be understood, managed and interpreted.
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Nova Scotia is part of the Appalachian region, one of Canada seven physiographic regions. The province is primarily a peninsula extending from the country’s mainland. At its northeastern end is Cape Breton Island. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Nova Scotia is separated from Prince Edward Island by the Northumberland Strait and from New Brunswick...
Urban Centres As in the rest of Canada, Nova Scotia has experienced a marked shift from rural to urban living since Confederation. However, its rural population remains relatively high at 30.7 per cent of the total population (2021). Halifax is both the capital and the largest urban centre in the province. In 2021, it had a population of 465,703, o...
Indigenous Peoples The first peoples in what is now Nova Scotia were the Mi'kmaq, who belonged to a wider coalition known as the Wabanaki Confederacy, whose members were in turn part of the Algonquin-language family in eastern North America. The Mi'kmaq presence can be traced as far back as 10,000 years. They were hunters and traders and, because o...
Agriculture While the Mi’kmaq relied on hunting for their food, fishing captains in the early 16th century are believed to have cultivated vegetable gardens to feed their crews. At the same time, the French were growing grain at Port-Royaland in 1609 they erected the first water-powered gristmill in North America. To secure salt for curing fish, th...
In October 1758 the first legislative assembly in Britain’s North American colonies met in Halifax, and parliamentary government was born in what would become Canada. Yet perhaps Nova Scotia's greatest contribution to Canadian democracy was the movement for Responsible Government, which got underway in earnest in 1836 when — mainly through the effo...
The Department of Health and Wellness administers an extensive program of family medicine, primary care, dental care, emergency services, mental health services, infection control, continuing care and e-health services. Public health insurance is provided to eligible residents for most hospital and medical services, as well as dental care for child...
The legislature has always refused to fund faith-based schools, even before Confederation. Education was originally provided via one system that permitted Catholic children to attend separate schools with Catholic teachers, effectively treating the schools as part of the public system, so long as they followed that system's course of study and obse...
Arts Scottish culture is particularly vigorous in the eastern part of the province. St Francis Xavier offers courses in Celtic studies (see Celtic Languages), while the Gaelic College at St Anns, Cape Breton, fosters piping, singing, dancing and handicrafts, and annually hosts the Gaelic Mod, a festival of Highland folk arts. The Antigonish Highlan...
The Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, part of the Nova Scotia Museum, is located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. The museum includes collections and exhibits concerning the natural sciences as well as artifacts of cultural significance to Nova Scotia. Gus, the oldest known gopher tortoise, has lived at the museum for most of his life ...
The Museum of Natural History is a great introduction to Nova Scotia. A celebration of the connection and balance between the natural and human worlds, with exhibits that include Sable Island, Mission...
