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Nova Scotia

DEFINITIONS OF: Nova Scotia

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n the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns

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Canadian province
Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes

n a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River

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peninsula
a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
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