Government of Nova Scotia

The organizations listed are mandated or include some Gaelic language and cultural programming and/or support same.

Nova Scotia is divided in 12 deer management zones and deer hunting regulations may vary by zone. When accuracy is needed, consult the official legal wording of the Wildlife Act and its Regulations. Laws are subject to change at any time and are available online. Links to wildlife related acts...

A list of the 28 provincial museum sites with the location of each site.

Provincial listing of permanent liquor licenses and physical addresses

This dataset provides the spatial locations of provincial roads that are not exempt from Spring Weight Restrictions as they are imposed. For the exempt roads please check https://data.novascotia.ca/Roads-Driving-and-Transport/Spring-Weight-Restrictions-Exempt-Roads/qusm-8w98

The NSCAF Community Boundaries dataset includes the boundary for each Nova Scotia civic community. These boundaries were defined in consultation with Nova Scotia municipalities with input from municipal councilors, Emergency Health Services (Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness), local...

Part of the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB), the landforms theme layer is updated and maintained from aerial photography. Contours, spot elevations, Cut/fill locations along roadways, as well as cliffs and embankments are collected. Landform feature codes and their descriptions are...

Part of the Nova Scotia Topographic database, the County Boundaries are a generalized cartographic representation of the County boundaries.

1:10,000 watersheds for Nova Scotia. Contains primary watersheds. Also available via GeoNova at: https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/WSF_DDS/DDS.svc/DownloadFile?tkey=fhrTtdnDvfytwLz6&id=82

[ARCHIVED] Recommendation is to discontinue the “Nova Scotia Groundwater Observation Well Temperature Data”. This is for scientific / technical reasons. The data was never designed to be collected as a dataset on its own, but is used by sensors to create a correction facter for other data...

This dataset delineates the municipal polling districts for towns and rural, district, county and regional municipalities.

For most recent Ecological Land Classification data, see: https://data.novascotia.ca/d/q6zd-39t3 The Ecological Land Classification (ELC) for Nova Scotia provides a hierarchical mapping of the province's forest ecosystems into ecosections, ecodistricts and ecoregions. It includes interpretation...

The Nova Scotia Control Monuments (NSCM) dataset is updated and maintained from ongoing observations on survey monuments. The NSCM indicates the locations of physical survey monuments in Nova Scotia. Information includes the Station Number, Station Name, Station Description, Monument Type,...

Part of the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB), the landforms theme layer is updated and maintained from aerial photography. Contours, spot elevations, Cut/fill locations along roadways, as well as cliffs and embankments are collected. Landform feature codes and their descriptions are...

Businesses licensed to extend credit or provide financing in Nova Scotia

List of Businesses / Persons licensed to operate as direct sellers in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Community Clusters for health service planning and research. Includes the following data fields: GIS_UID, GIS_SELECTED, GIS_HIDDEN, GIS_LENGTH, GIS_AREA, Cluster, ClusterID

Business / Person that acts as an agent for a lender in arranging consumer loans

Part of the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB), the roads and railroads theme layer is updated and maintained from aerial photography and collected in the field with mobile GPS, Field inspections verify road way types such as surface and number of lanes. Road feature codes and their...

Part of the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB), the roads and railroads theme layer is updated and maintained from aerial photography and collected in the field with mobile GPS, Field inspections verify road way types such as surface and number of lanes. Road feature codes and their...