The old Acadian peninsula, ceded by France in 1713 and refounded around the great naval fortress-town of Halifax in 1749.
Joined three other colonies as a founding province of the Dominion of Canada on 1 July 1867, over the loud objections of Joseph Howe's anti-Confederation movement.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Nova Scotia (British Colony) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1713 · 1763 · 1769 · 1784.
A concise history of the colony from the Acadian peninsula through Halifax to Confederation.
Standard regional history of the Maritimes that frames British Nova Scotia (broad regional context).