New Edinburgh (English, name)
expansion: New Edinburgh
Senses:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The capital of the short-lived Scottish colony of New Caledonia (1698–1700), now Sukunya, a.k.a. Puerto Escocés (Spanish for “Port Scotland”).
glosses: A community founded in 1783, currently located in Clare district municipality, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A settlement in Ontario, Canada, established in 1829, incorporated as a village of that name in 1867, and annexed by the City of Ottawa in 1887, of which it now forms a neighbourhood in its Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward. (The affluent neighbourhood is notable as the location of the official residences of both the Governor General and the Prime Minister of Canada.)
Forms: