Government of Nova Scotia

Non-resident overnight visitors to Nova Scotia are sorted into Explorer Quotient segments based on a battery of questions about travel activities, habits, and motivations.

The dataset provides the predominate and traditional family names of African Nova Scotians in 6 regions in Nova Scotia. The regions consist of Halifax Metro, South Shore and Yarmouth and Acadian Shore, Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, Northumberland Shore, Eastern Shore and Cape Breton Island....

Non-resident overnight visitors to Nova Scotia are asked if they or others in their travel party participated in specific outdoor activities while visiting the province.

A fully searchable database containing information for 3551 baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in the parish registers of St.-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755. These two volumes are Nova Scotia's earliest surviving church registers, and a tangible link to the last generations of...

Non-resident overnight visitors to Nova Scotia are asked if they or others in their travel party visited specific types of alcohol producers while visiting the province.

Monthly estimates for visitors to Nova Scotia by road. This includes those who enter the province via roadways (Amherst and Tidnish) and ferries (North Sydney, Caribou, Digby and Yarmouth).

Public Works operates seven ferries. This data covers the ferry schedule for the Tancook Island ferry. Refer to 511 for current availability of service: http://511.gov.ns.ca/en/map/

Information collected through the reservation system for the general public to reserve camping sites in the Nova Scotia Provincial Parks.

Fatality Reports were created for 328 individuals whose bodies were recovered at the site of the disaster. These files form a unique sub-set within the records of the Medical Examiner for the City of Halifax and Town of Dartmouth (RG 41, Series C, Vols. 75, 76 & 76A) held at the Nova Scotia...

The 'Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book' is the first really definitive listing for those killed in the disaster of 6 December 1917. The online version features a searchable database with detailed information for 1946 casualties - more than 300 of whom are recently-confirmed and identified victims.

In honour of African Heritage Month, the Nova Scotia Archives is pleased to present a digital version of the Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, No. 2 Construction Battalion (March 1917), the only battalion of Black soldiers raised in Canada during the First World War....

Listing of Hunting and Fishing (including Salmon) License Sellers in Nova Scotia. Includes county, vendor (business) name, address and contact telephone number.

A list of the 28 provincial museum sites with hours of operation for each site.

The Government of Nova Scotia helps identify, protect and preserve built heritage throughout the province. The Heritage Property Program was created to assist Nova Scotians to better understand the heritage values of our unique properties and to better preserve these heritage assets. It is an...

The "Book of Negroes" is the single most important document relating to the immigration of African Americans to Nova Scotia following the War of Independence. It provides the names of 3000 black refugees registered on board the vessels in which they sailed from New York to Nova Scotia between 23...

Non-resident overnight visitors to Nova Scotia are asked if they or others in their travel party visited particular communities, whether overnight or for a short visit.

List of permitted food establishments, permit type, and civic address.

Hours of operation for Nova Scotia public libraries located outside the Halifax Regional Municipality. Includes both regular hours of operation, and seasonal ('summer') hours, as appropriate.

The Nova Scotia Road Network (NSRN) is the authoritative source for road centerlines in the province. This 3D coverage contains addressed roads and non-addressed roads and has several descriptive attributes to define a roadway such as number of lanes, surface type, and road class. The NSRN is...

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...