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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia
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About Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province in the Maritimes region of Canada, located on the nation's east coast. With an estimated population of over 1 million as of 2025, Nova Scotia is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. Nova Scotia is also the second-most densely populated province in Canada, and the second-smallest province by area. The province comprises the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island, as well as 3,800 other coastal islands. The province is connected to the rest of Canada by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's sole land border, with New Brunswick, is located.

On the show โ€” 6 mentions total

In 1945, police in Halifax, Nova Scotia initiated a campaign to stop people from beeping their car horns in Morse code to signal out vile and filthy language.

from No Such Thing As Garlic Superman, 2016-12-16 at 00:26:04 ยท read transcript

Other times Nova Scotia came up

  1. I think you played it right, though. Yeah, yeah. So what's the story here then? In Nova Scotia, at last, I always, it's very, it felt very local news, this story. And there was like a local news video about it, but basically a old Victorian building that was mostly used as a hotel for about 100 years. It was going to get knocked down. Then a company bought it because they wanted to attach it to a planned apartment blocks or 30 feet away.

    No Such Thing As A Dirty Bar Of Soap, 2024-01-04 ยท listen

  2. I read about these, there was a new couple. I think they just got married, and they wanted to get a flight to Sydney. They bought the flight, and it was a lot cheaper than they thought. When they got there, they found out that they'd actually gone to Sydney, Nova Scotia by accident. This is, unlike your, you're from Sydney, aren't you? I am, yeah. Unlike your Sydney, this is a former mining town with a population of 26,083, and one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada.

    No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk, 2014-05-09 ยท listen

  3. Think they just got married, and they wanted to get a flight to Sydney, and they bought the flight, and it was a lot cheaper than they thought, and when they got there they found out that they'd actually gone to Sydney, Nova Scotia by accident.

    10: No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk, 2014-05-09 ยท listen

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