page_title: Regional tartans of Canada
section_title: Nova Scotia
hierarchical_section_title: Regional tartans of Canada / Provincial and territorial tartans / Nova Scotia
caption_attribution_description: English: The official tartan of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, created in 1953. Thread count: 1 red 2 yellow 8 dark green 4 green 2 dark green 2 green 2 dark green 20 blue 2 white 20 blue 2 dark green 2 green 2 dark green 4 green 8 dark green 2 yellow
context_page_description: Regional tartans of Canada are represented by all Canada's provinces and territories, except for Nunavut, having a regional tartan, as do many other regional divisions in Canada. Tartans were first brought to Canada by Scottish settlers; the first province to adopt one officially was Nova Scotia in 1956, and the most recent province was Ontario, in 2000. Except for the tartan of Quebec, all of the provincial and territorial tartans are officially recognized and registered in the books of the Court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms of Scotland. The tartan for Canada as a whole is known as the maple leaf tartan and became an official national symbol in 2011.
context_section_description: 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 Halifax, the Gaelic College Craft Centre in St.Anne's, Cape Breton, and was once the president of the Women's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Bessie had originally displayed the tartan on the kilt of a shepherd in a panel at a breeders' convention in Truro in 1953, but the design was so admired that it was afterwards used as the province's tartan. Isobel registered the new regional tartan at the Court of the Lord Lyon in 1956, making it the first provincial tartan in Canada, and officially adopted by the province in the Nova Scotia Tartan Act of 1963. Blue are used for the sea; white, for the granite rocks and surf; gold, for the Royal Charter; and red for the lion rampant on the provincial flag. Its International Tartan Index number is 1713.
caption: Nova Scotia's tartan.
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