The Truth About Nova Scotia: New Scotland of Canada & Viking Presence?
Channel: Celtic History Decoded
Date: 12/11/2023

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The Truth About Nova Scotia: New Scotland of Canada & Viking Presence?

What is the truth about Nova Scotia and did the Vikings bring the first Scots to Canada? Nova Scotia, Latin for New Scotland, is an eastern Canadian province that was one of the four original provinces (along with New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec) that constituted the Dominion of Canada in 1867.

The French established a fur-trading post at Port Royal in 1605. Early explorers gave the area the name Acadia, probably a corruption of a native word of the indigenous people of the land, the Mi'kmaq (Migma) people. The province’s present name was the result of brief Scottish claims to the region in the 1620s.

Britain and France fought over the territory on numerous occasions, until Britain gained the upper hand. Subsequently, to strengthen their position there, Britian moved foreign protestants from France and Germany into Nova Scotia in the 18th century and deported French-speaking Acadians on mass. During the American Revolutionary War from 1775–1783, thousands of people loyal to the British Crown settled in Nova Scotia. 

Waves of Scottish and Scotch-Irish people flooded into Canada and Nova Scotia more specifically over the centuries as well. According to the 2016 Census of Canada, the number of Canadians claiming full or partial Scottish descent was around 4.8million, or just under 14% of the nation's total population. 

Sources:
 
Nova Scotia https://www.britannica.com/place/Nova-Scotia 

Celtic History Decoded - Did the Vikings Take Scottish Slaves to North America? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdFi_LPz7A 

The Vinland Sagas (2008: Penguin Classics)

Scottish Canadians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Canadians 

Thorfinn Karlsefni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorfinn_Karlsefni 

Nova Scotia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia 

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