Nova Scotia is one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces and is
the most populous province of the four in Atlantic Canada.
Located almost exactly halfway between the Equator and the North
Pole, its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the
second-smallest province in Canada with an area of 55,284 square
kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and some 3,800
coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727, making
Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province in
Canada. Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi’kmaq people when
French colonists established Port Royal, Nova Scotia, the first
permanent European settlement in North America north of Florida
in 1605. Almost one hundred and fifty years later, the first
English and German settlers arrived with the founding of Halifax
(1749). The first Scottish migration was on the Hector (1773)
and then the first Black migration happened after the American
Revolution (1783). Despite the diversity of the cultural
heritage of Nova Scotia, m