DCHP-3

New Scotland

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an early name for Nova Scotia.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1621
It was in all future time to have the name of New Scotland or, as it appears in the courtly Latin of the original, Nova Scotia.
<i>c</i>1621
It is very important that all our beloved subjects who inhabit the said Province of New Scotland or its borders may live in the fear of Almighty God. . . .
1922
The Province was incorporated in one entire free barony which was to be called in all future time by the name of "New Scotland."