* Aberdeen, Nova Scotia, part of the Municipality of Inverness County, Nova Scotia

The most productive areas include Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Dogger Bank of the North Sea, and the Falkland Banks.

Category: People from Baddeck, Nova Scotia

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

* Canada comparative: greater than half ( 56 %) the size of Nova Scotia

* Atlantic, Nova Scotia

* RMS Atlantic, a steamship that sank off Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1873

* 1873 – The British steamer sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.

Amethyst is relatively common in Ontario, and in various locations throughout Nova Scotia.

* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

Acadia University is a predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level.

Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Acadia University is located in the town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, approximately 100 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia the provincial capital.

In 1831 the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society founded Queen's College.

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 ).

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

The Anti-Confederation Party won 18 out of 19 federal Nova Scotia seats in September 1867, and in the Nova Scotia provincial election of 1868, 36 out of 38 seats in the legislature.

He has played on and / or produced records by Aimee Mann, Edwyn Collins, Neneh Cherry, Tim Booth ( of James ), Duffy, Eddi Reader, Hopper, Roy Orbison, Bert Jansch, The Libertines, Heather Nova, Mark Owen, The Veils, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Cribs, Pretenders, The On-Off's, 1990s, The Mescalitas, Cut Off Your Hands, Cajun Dance Party, The View, Arkitekt, Sons and Daughters, Black Kids, Tricky, Sharleen Spiteri, Nerina Pallot and Natalie McCool.

* Nick Wright-Former Leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia

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Hamm was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia in 1995, succeeding Terry Donahoe.

Several opponents, including former PC Party Treasurer Jim Prentice, social conservative candidate Craig Chandler, and Red Tory Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison, painted MacKay as a status quo or " establishment " candidate who could effectively question the Prime Minister.

He was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1879, resigning in 1882 to successfully run for election to the House of Commons of Canada in Ottawa where he served as a Conservative Party member until 1896.

In 1968, MacEachen contested the leadership of the Liberal Party, but did not do well largely because there was a second Nova Scotian on the ballot.

* Election in Nova Scotia, Canada: the Progressive Conservative Party of Premier John Hamm is reelected with a minority government.

) This caused much uncertainty and friction between Newfoundland's Terra Nova Green Party Association and the Green Party leader as the party gradually adapted to the realities of functioning as a true national party rather than a disorganized federation of local activists.

Respect for Orchard grew in the Red Tory wing of the PC Party: roughly one-quarter of the party membership supported him during the 2003 PC leadership campaign, including Joe Clark's wife, Maureen McTeer Orchard ultimately came in third on the third ballot in the 2003 PC convention, behind Nova Scotia Member of Parliament ( MP ) Peter MacKay and Calgary lawyer Jim Prentice.

It was announced on December 30, 2009, that she will be appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for her pioneering work as both the Nova Scotia and Federal leader of the New Democratic Party.

Category: Nova Scotia New Democratic Party MLAs

* Jordi Morgan-current Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia metro organiser

Robert Lorne Stanfield, PC, QC ( April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003 ) was the 17th Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia was in poor shape.

With the help of his Nova Scotian advisors and PC Party President Dalton Camp, he won a hard-fought battle and won on the fifth ballot of the 1967 leadership convention.

Fellow Nova Scotian and final PC Party Leader Peter MacKay suggested in an interview on CBC Newsworld on December 16, 2003, that he had not personally spoken to Stanfield in regard to his opinions on the merger.

* The Party that Stanfield Rebuilt Article on Stanfield and the Nova Scotia Tories.

Category: Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs

The Anti-Confederation Party, led by Joseph Howe, won the third largest number of seats overall, based solely on a majority of seats ( and votes ) in the province of Nova Scotia.

Category: Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs

Garrison, Massachusetts born of Nova Scotian parentage, was by temperament and conviction a reformer.

In 1851, the power of appointing governors was transferred from the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society to the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

) 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.

The Nova was created when this follow-on to the PDP-8 was rejected in favor of what would become the PDP-11.

The city was later renamed Nova Roma by Constantine the Great, but popularly called Constantinople and briefly became the imperial residence of the classical Roman Empire.

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

Barcino Nova is the town's Latin name meaning " new Barcelona "; Barcino was the Roman name for Barcelona in Spain from its foundation by Emperor Augustus in 10 BC, and it was only changed to Barcelona in the Middle Ages.

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.

From 1763 to 1784 the island was administratively part of the colony of Nova Scotia and governed from Halifax.

In 1820, the colony of Cape Breton Island was merged for the second time with Nova Scotia.

At one time, Glace Bay was known as the largest town in Nova Scotia, based on population.

Sierra Leone was largely colonized by Calvinist settlers from Nova Scotia, who were largely Black Loyalists, blacks who had fought for the British during the American War of Independence.

His paper, Theoria Interpolationis Methodo Nova Tractata, was only published posthumously in Volume 3 of his collected works.

In 1871, Canada's first formal census was conducted, which counted the population of Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power ; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead. Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, an archetypal Maritime scene

The Late Period extended from three thousand years ago until first contact with European settlers and was dominated by the organization of First Nations peoples into the Algonquian-influenced Abenaki Nation which existed largely in present-day interior Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Mi ' kmaq Nation which inhabited all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.

The early British capital of the Colony of Nova Scotia ( sometimes referred to as the 14th Colony ) was established at Annapolis Royal, where Fort Anne was constructed.