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Nova Scotia: Province
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Beginning December 3, 2007, Nova Scotia will be the first province in Canada to launch a new highly secure and durable bilingual birth certificate. The certificate, which is the new Canadian standard, is the most secure birth certificate in the world.
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STELLARTON, Nova Scotia and ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Canada's second-largest grocery retailer, Sobeys Inc., invests in state-of-the-art warehouse and picking technology. The retail chain plans to build an automated distribution center in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. The new distribution center is expected to tighten Sobeys' supply chain while improving the service level for dry grocery delivery to its 360 stores within the province.
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One of the Maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia comprises a mainland peninsula and, across the Canso Strait, the adjacent Cape Breton Island. It is bounded on the N by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Northumberland Strait, across which lies Prince Edward Island; on the E and S by the Atlantic Ocean; and on the W by New Brunswick, from which it is largely separated by the Bay of Fundy but to which the Chignecto Isthmus connects it. The climate is moderate and rainfall abundant. The east coast is rocky, with numerous bays and coves, and is dotted with many charming fishing villages. Off the beautiful south shore is Sable Island, called the graveyard of the Atlantic for its many shipwrecks; on the west coast huge Fundy tides wash the shores, extending into the Minas Basin and the Annapolis River estuary.
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![[Lieutenant-General of Nova Scotia (Canada)]](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/n/o/v/nova-scotia/i/009.gif)
Nova Scotia's provincial flag, unlike those of all other Canadian provinces, has never been made official by legislation. It is claimed that the right to create an armorial banner is implicit in a grant of arms, but British Columbia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, which ... have armorial banners as provincial flags, have made them official by Order in Council, Proclamation, or Act of Legislature. Fraser points out that in this respect the provincial flag of Nova Scotia is similar in status to the national flag of the United Kingdom.
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Nova Scotia has more than 450 public schools for children. The public system offers primary to Grade 12. There are ... some private schools in the province. Public education is administered by seven regional school boards, responsible primarily for English instruction and French immersion, and also province wide by the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial, which administer French instruction to students for whom the primary language is French.
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Created in April 2001 by the Province of Nova Scotia, as a result of the release of the province’s economic growth strategy: Opportunities for Prosperity (2000), NSBI is an arms-length agency to direct Nova Scotia’s business development efforts. NSBI has grown to include six offices located throughout the province.
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