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Professor of History, Acadia University. Author of "The Third Acadia: Political Adaptation and Societal Change," in The "Conquest" of Acadia, 1710, and others.
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Brendan Anthony O'Grady
Professor of English, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown.
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Nova Scotia, Canadian province located on the eastern seaboard of North America, one of the four original provinces (along with New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec) that constituted the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Roughly 360 miles (580 km) long but not more than about 80 miles (130 km) wide at any point, the province comprises the peninsula of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island (separated from the mainland to the southwest by the narrow Strait of Canso), and a number of small adjacent islands. Along the narrow Chignecto Isthmus, which seems to thrust the peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean, runs the ...(100 of 3380 words)

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