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  Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nova Scotia is the second smallest province in Canada, with an area of only 55,284 km², but its population of 937,889[1] Nova Scotians (or, less formally, Bluenosers) makes it the seventh most populous province.
Nova Scotia was granted a supreme court in 1754 with the appointment of Jonathan Belcher and a legislative assembly in 1758.
Nova Scotia is the seventh most populated province in Canada with an estimated 937,889 residents as of July 1, 2005.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a list of viceroys for the colony, dominion and province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Governors of New France (1627-1760) - Governors of Acadia - Northwest Territories (1869-1905) The Governor of New France was the head of state representing the King of France in North America.
This a list of the lieutenant-governors of the Northwest Territories.
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 Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nova Scotia (Latin for New Scotland; “Alba Nuadh” in Scottish Gaelic, la Nouvelle-Écosse in French) is a Canadian province on the North Atlantic coast.
Of the 4.6% of Nova Scotia residents who had immigrated to Canada, 45% per cent of immigrants were from Asia; 29.3% were from Europe; 21.9%, the Middle East; 11.8%, the United States; and 6.8%, the United Kingdom.
Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January-February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe.
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 Nova Scotia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nova Scotia (Measure of the United States economy adopted in 1991; the total market values of goods and services by produced by workers and capital within the United States borders during a given period (usually 1 year)) GDP is presently approximately $29 billion (Can) annually.
Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of (A union of political organizations) Confederation, along with (A province in southeastern Canada) New Brunswick, (The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) Quebec, and (A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada) Ontario.
Nova Scotia is in the (Standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces) Atlantic standard time zone.
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 Nova Scotia - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nova Scotia has an area of 55,500 km² and a population of about 940,000 (Nova Scotians).
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 was one of the four original provinces of Confederation, along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario.
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 Knowledge King - Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; “Alba Nuadh” in Scots Gaelic, French, la Nouvelle-Écosse) is a Canadian province and is located on the east coast.
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 but notorious island approximately 175 km from the province's Atlantic coast.
Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of Confederation, which included also New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
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 Lieutenant governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Australia, the Lieutenant Governor is the subordinate of the Governor of a state, who serves as Administrator of the GovernmentAdministrator/, or acting Governor, in case of illness or disability of the Governor.
Lieutenant Governors are nominally appointed by the Governor General but in practice are chosen by the Prime Minister of Canada usually in consultation with that province's respective premier (Canada)premier.
Lieutenant Governor Mary Fallin today invited Oklahomans to join her in inscribing their signatures on a state flag that will be sent to the 550 members of an Oklahoma Army National Guard unit in Iraq.
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 Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nova Scotia (Latin for ''New Scotland''; “Alba Nuadh” in Scottish Gaelic, French languageFrench ''la Nouvelle-Écosse'') is a CanadaCanadian Provinces of Canadaprovince on the North Atlantic coast.
Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January-February 1848 and become self-governing colonyself-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe.
Nova Scotia was one of the four original provinces of Canadian ConfederationConfederation, along with New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario/.
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 Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
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 1763 Nova Scotia encompassed almost all of Acadia (except the Magdalen Islands), the present Canadian Maritimes.
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 Science Fair Projects - Executive Council of Nova Scotia
Almost always made up of members of the Nova Scotia Legislature the cabinet is similar in structure and role to the Cabinet of Canada while being smaller in size.
The cabinet is selected by the Premier of Nova Scotia and is sworn in by the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia.
The cabinet is derived from the caucus of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
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 lieutenant
A Lieutenant is a military or paramilitary officer.
In French history, "lieutenant du roi" was a title borne by the officer sent with military powers to represent the king in certain provinces.
Sometimes the rank of 3rd Lieutenant is used, typically as a cadet or temporary rank indicating that the holder is a commissioned officer in the chain of command -- barely.
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 The British Administration in Nova Scotia: 1714-1739   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This opinion was echoed by Governor Philipps in 1718 who stated that the French should "not be treated as they deserve," until such time as British settlers could be brought to Nova Scotia and the Indian problem had been dealt with satisfactorily.
Indeed, Nova Scotia appeared to be so low on the Board's list of priorities that Philipps was given, for guidance, a copy of the instructions sent to the governor of Virginia.
As the number of British settlers in Nova Scotia at this time was next to nil, it is not clear with whom the Board expected the Indians to intermarry.
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 Nova Scotia History Index
Nova Scotia was also the first part of Canada to win responsible government (government by a cabinet answerable to, and removable by, a majority of the assembly) in January 1848...
Governors of Cape Breton Island, 1784-1820 Cape Breton Island became a separate colony on 26 August 1784 and was reincorporated into Nova Scotia on 9 October 1820.
John Allan was the eldest son of William Allan, one of the earliest settlers of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1746.
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 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Richard Bulkeley (1717-1800).
He soon was to learn of the royal plans to send Cornwallis to Nova Scotia to establish a new capital.
So it is, at the end of June in 1749, on the woodsy shore of Chebucto Bay, in an area which was to become the City of Halifax, we would have seen, Richard Bulkeley stepping ashore with three of his servants.
Richard Bulkeley was, as already mentioned an aid-de-camp to Governor Cornwallis; and, indeed, he was to carry on in that capacity for a succession of governors, including Hopson and Lawrence.
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 The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891)
Hill says of him, "He was the personal friend and counsellor of the successive Governors and Lieutenant Governors, the associate and adviser of all others in authority, the friend and helper of the poor, the sick and afflicted, and the promoter and supervisor of education.
The pulpit, reading desk and governor's pew were hung with fl, minute guns were fired from the batteries; the guns continued firing for an hour and a half, and the flags from the citadel and George's Island were at half-mast all day, all amusements being prohibited for a month, as part of the public mourning.
The first person known to have been buried in the vaults beneath it was Colonel Charles Lawrence, governor of the province during those important events, the expulsion of the Acadians, and the re-settling of their lands by Puritans from the New England States.
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 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: John Winslow (1703-74).
The governors were to meet early in the spring of 1755, so, through the winter, Winslow was charged by Shirley to form an army of New Englanders, to get them outfitted and drilled, and ready for service.
Monckton, however, was not unfamiliar with Nova Scotia; and, indeed, was stationed at Nova Scotia since 1752, and in particular, was, for approximately a year (1752/1753), the commander of the English fort, Fort Lawrence, just opposite the objective, Fort Beauséjour.
With the early fall of Fort Beauséjour in June of 1755 (the taking of Fort Beauséjour was the only English military objective, of the four, met that year) there was, thereafter, to be an excess of English troops at the isthmus.
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 NovaNewsNet Story: New chief justice of Nova Scotia appointed
MacDonald was officially sworn-in as the new chief justice by Lieutenant Governor Myra Freeman at the Nova Scotia Law Buildings in Halifax on Friday, Jan. 14, 2004.
As chief justice of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, MacDonald says he will oversee changes to the rules of civil procedure, which he anticipates will happen within the next year.
In April 1995, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and became its associate chief justice in 1998.
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 Politics in Maitland NOVA SCOTIA Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
May 1859 Pictou County, Nova Scotia.11,12 She was...
List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors.....1828, 1834..Sir Peregrine Maitland..1828-1834..Sir Colin.....1706-1710..
The main source is the statutes of Nova Scotia.
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 CanadaInfo: Provinces and Territories: Nova Scotia: Former Lieutenant Governors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ieutenant Governors are appointed by the Governor General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada and the Federal Cabinet.
he first list are the governors of Cape Breton Island which became a separate colony on August 26, 1784 and was reincorporated into Nova Scotia on October 9, 1820.
The second list are the Governors of the British Colony of Nova Scotia (1713 - 1867), and then Lieutenant Governors of the Province of Nova Scotia (1867 - Present).
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 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Up until 1786, the vice-regal representative in Nova Scotia normally held the rank of Governor, and only occasionally Lieutenant Governor.
Once a governor, Sir Guy Carleton, was appointed Governor of British North America, all the existing governors were given the rank of lieutenant governor.
The following is a list of the vice-regal representatives since 1753.
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 Nova Scotia Community College | Briefly Noted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Currently in Nova Scotia, there is a serious shortage of qualified instructors who can teach ASL in educational institutions such as NSCC, the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority (APSEA) and several school boards.
"Nova Scotia needs students that are able to go into the workforce with confidence, a solid education in their chosen profession and a vision to make our Province strong and viable," says Dornan.
Nova Scotia Community College is mentioned throughout the document, either in positive skill, learning, and partnership examples or in recommended action items.
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 Nova Scotia Quotations
Planters were not the first privateers in Nova Scotia, as the trade had deep roots, going back to French privateers operating from Port Royal as early as the 1690s and later from Louisbourg.
Marriott Arbuthnot, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, addressing the House of Assembly in Halifax on Friday June 6th, 1777, as reported in the Journals and Votes of the House of Assembly for the Province of Nova Scotia, 1777, (spelling and capitalization as printed).
It is estimated that 60,000 went to the colony of Nova Scotia, and 10,000 went to the colony of Quebec.
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 Nova Scotia
May 1, 2004 -- Nova Scotia is a coast of contrasts.
October 25, 2004 -- HALIFAX -- The Nova Scotia Government has introduced legislation aimed at reforming the province's mental health laws, the first reforms in 30 years.
April 15, 2002 -- HALIFAX -- The Nova Scotia government is closing adult residential facilities without a clear plan for where mental health clients and the workers who...
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 Table of Precedence
Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
Justices of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
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 List of Alberta lieutenant-governors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a list of the lieutenant-governors of Alberta, Canada, since its establishment in 1905.
For more lists of this type, see Lists of incumbents.
This page was last modified 02:55, 22 October 2005.
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 List of Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Governors of New France (1627-1760) - Governors of Acadia - Northwest Territories (1869-1905)
This page was last modified 12:58, 8 October 2005.
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 Humor in Maitland NOVA SCOTIA Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
South Maitland, Nova Scotia@ (1); South Ohio, Nova Scotia@ (3...
A genealogical bibliography for Pictou, Nova Scotia, Alameda County, California and Andrew and Buchanan Counties, Missouri.
Nova Scotia; Maitland, Nova Scotia; Meteghan, Nova Scotia; Meteghan River, Nova Scotia; Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia; Middleton, Nova...
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 ipedia.com: List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Table of contents 1 Governors of Acadia prior to 1710 2 British Governors of Nova Scotia from 1710 to Confederation 3 Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia post-Confederation Governors of Acadia prior t...
List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors Article - ipedia.com
2 British Governors of Nova Scotia from 1710 to Confederation
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