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2. Regional tartans of Canada - Wikipedia

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   Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia (Province) Official; usage requires licence. [24] Nova Scotia's tartan was designed by Bessie Murray, the President of the Halifax Weavers' Guild, with the help of Isobel MacAulay, Canada's expert on Clan Systems, tartans and traditional Scottish wear. Isobel was owner of Bond Textiles in Yarmouth, The Tartan House in ...

3. List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols - Wikipedia

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   Nova Scotia [9] Osprey: Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Sable Island horse: Brook trout: Mayflower: Red spruce: Stilbite: Munit haec et altera vincit (one defends and the other conquers) Sailing ambassador: Bluenose II, Nova Scotia tartan; berry: wild blueberry; fossil: Hylonomus lyelli; gemstone: agate: Nunavut [10] Rock ptarmigan: Canadian ...

4. Symbols of Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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   Nova Scotia Tartan was the first provincial tartan in Canada and was approved by the Lord Lyon King at Arms. The blue and white in the tartan stand for the sea, the greens represent the forests, red is for the royal lion on the Shield of Arms, and gold for the province's historic Royal Charter.

5. Scottish Canadians - Wikipedia

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   The name of Nova Scotia literally means "New Scotland" in Latin, and its flag was designed as a combination of the Scottish Saltire and the Royal Arms of Scotland. Nova Scotia was briefly colonized by Scottish settlers in 1620, although by 1624 the Scottish settlers had been removed by treaty and the area was turned over to the French until the ...

6. Tartan Day - Wikipedia

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   Tartan Day is celebration of Scottish heritage and the cultural contributions of Scottish and Scottish-diaspora figures of history. [1] The name refers to tartan, a patterned woollen cloth associated with Scotland. The event originated in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1987. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora and Scotland itself ...

7. List of Scottish place names in Canada - Wikipedia

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   A satellite photo of Nova Scotia. Tartan of Nova Scotia New Glasgow, Nova Scotia welcome sign "Nova Scotia" is Latin for New Scotland. Nova Scotia's Gaelic name is Alba Nuadh, which also literally means "New Scotland". Aberdeen; Argyle; Arisaig; Ben Eoin (from the Scottish Gaelic for "mountain of the birds") Beinn Bhreagh; Beinn Scalpie ...