... the shores are green ; the river or brook is clear and cold – and tarry black in the deep places ; the water leaps and dashes in whirlpools and torrents, and the lakes are fairy lakes, full of green islands – mere ledges, many of them, with two or three sentinel pines – and everywhere the same clear, black water, and always the trout, the wonderful, wild, abounding Nova Scotia trout.

Acadia began as an extension of Horton Academy ( 1828 ), which was founded in Horton, Nova Scotia, by Baptists from Nova Scotia and Queen's College ( 1838 ).

) was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca ( now Málaga ) and Carthago Nova ( now Cartagena ), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

* Cape Breton ( Nova Scotia ), a cape located at the eastern tip of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island

* Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ), a regional municipality in Nova Scotia

The Maritimes: New Brunswick ( green ), Nova Scotia ( blue ) and Prince Edward Island ( red )

Acadians eventually built small settlements throughout what is today mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Île-Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Île-Royale ( Cape Breton Island ), and other shorelines of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

Regional transportation networks have also changed significantly in recent decades with port modernizations, with new expressways and ongoing arterial highway construction, the abandonment of various low-capacity railway branchlines ( including the entire railway system of Prince Edward Island and southwestern Nova Scotia ), and the construction of the Canso Causeway and the Confederation Bridge.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

Commercial radio stations based in the city include 4fm ( 94. 9 MHz ), 98FM ( 98. 1 MHz ), Radio Nova 100FM ( 100. 3 MHz ), Q102 ( 102. 2 MHz ), Spin 1038 ( 103. 8 MHz ), FM104 ( 104. 4 MHz ), Phantom 105. 2 ( 105. 2 MHz ) and Sunshine 106. 8 ( 106. 8 MHz ).

* Nova ( Frankie Raye ) is a fictional character colored golden sometimes appearing in the Marvel Comics universe with the Silver Surfer.

* Nova 6, a fictional biochemical weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops

* Nova ( Planet of the Apes ), a fictional character in Planet of the Apes

Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Tourism in Louisiana and Nova Scotia demanded that the fictional character be made real.

at the real-life gulag Vorkuta in the northern Soviet Union so that the Soviet Union can attack the United States with other sleeper agents, including Mason with the fictional Nova 6 nerve agent.

Magma ( Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla ) hails from the fictional country of Nova Roma ( New Rome ), a colony of the Roman Republic reportedly founded shortly after the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Nova ( Richard Rider ) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe.

Richard Rider, a student at the fictional Harry S. Truman High School in Hempstead, New York, is chosen at random by the alien Rhomann Dey, last surviving Nova Centurion of the planet Xandar's elite Nova Corps, to inherit his power and succeed him in the rank of Nova Prime following the destruction of his world by the intergalactic pirate Zorr.

Gato Fedorento is known for using Portuguese idiomatic expressions-like the phrase " ah e tal ", which doesn't really mean anything in concrete but is used, especially in reported speech, to indicate that the person speaking is saying something of lesser consequence-as well as fictional city names that sound like realistic traditional villages, such as " São Jorge da Morrunhanha " and the new " Vila Nova da Rabona " ( rabona being a synonym for " big ass ").

* Terra Nova ( Star Trek planet ), one of the first Earth-colonized planets in the fictional Star Trek universe

* Terra Nova, a fictional colony of humans set 85 million years in the past in Terra Nova ( TV series )

Terra Nova is set in a science fictional depiction of the year 2327, and takes place in the Alpha Centauri star system.

In short, within the fictional future of Nova, humanity began to colonize space by the end of the Twentieth Century.

Heavy Gear is set on a distant, fictional planet called Terra Nova around 4, 000 Earth Standard Years from now ( AD 6132 ).

Nova bomb is a name used in several works of science fiction for a variety of fictional weapons.

Cassandra Nova is a fictional enemy of the X-Men in the Marvel Comics universe.

# The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic, the fictional character Nova and its eponymous comic book.

* a fictional empire in the Escape Velocity Nova computer game

** Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia, fictional birthplace of Anne Shirley of the Anne of Green Gables series of books ( based on New London, Prince Edward Island, the author's actual birthplace )

The film stars Paul Gross as Augustus Knickel, the mayor of Solomon Gundy, a fictional island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Antigonish Town is a fairly even mix of Irish and Scottish, and the Irish presence contributes to Nova Scotia's Celtic cultural character.

The character was a plain-talking American who served to poke fun at Nova Scotian customs of that era, while, initially, trying to urge the old-fashioned Canadians to be as clever and hard-working as Yankees.

* Nova Satori, a Robotech character

* Nova, a Magic Knight Rayearth character

* Nova Terra, a Starcraft character

* Prime Nova, a Transformers character

Ford played the role of Kitty Prescott, the mother of main character Nova Prescott, played by Aimee Teegarden.

Drax received an eponymous 4 issue miniseries in 2004, and was a starring character in Annihilation: Nova # 1-4 ( 2005 ) and Annihilation # 1-6 ( 2006 ).

IGN ranked Nova as the 98th greatest comic book character, calling Nova a blend of Spider-Man and Green Lantern.

* Nova appears as a playable character in the Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet video game, voiced by Jason Marsden.

* Nova appears as a playable character in the crossover fighting game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, voiced by Troy Baker.

* Nova is a playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.

* Nova Prime was a playable character in the Galactic Guardians set of Marvel Heroclix.

Nova Scotia's folk music is characteristically Scottish in character, and traditions from Scotland are kept very traditional in form, in some cases more so than in Scotland.

A future version of the character was shown in the Nova annual for 2007.

An astral form of Quasar had a recurring role in Nova vol 4 beginning with issue # 17, as the writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning ( known collectively as DnA ) thought he was too useful a character to stay dead:

* November " Nova " Terra, a character in the StarCraft universe

A Nova story for Marvel Comics Presents was greenlit but cancelled because it did not fit with an upcoming New Warriors series that would feature the character.

Nova has a number of character motifs in common with Delany's later literary and literary-pornographic works: the Mouse, a damaged artist who wears one shoe as does the Kid in the later Dhalgren ; Katin, an intellectual and writer who attempts to record the events around him ; the twins Lynceos and Idas, one black, the other albino ; and Dan, a barefoot derelict, with a rope holding up his pants.