Known affectionately as “Canada’s ocean playground”, the province of Nova Scotia is a land as diverse in its people as its scenery. This emerald peninsula on the southeastern coast of Canada boasts dramatic ocean shorelines, lush forests, glimmering lakes and rivers, fertile farmlands and a peaceful culture.

Home to just under a million people, Nova Scotians are known world-wide for their warm hospitality, friendly ease and creative talents. They are a racially diverse and tolerant society with aboriginal, European and African ancestors among the first people to settle the land and today people from cultures around the world have come to call Nova Scotia their home.

Nova Scotia benefits from a strong infrastructure with great roads, state-of-the-art telecommunications, a world-class healthcare system and an enviable commitment to education with more than eight universities. In fact, Nova Scotia has the most university graduates per capita in Canada.

Nova Scotia’s resource-based industries as well as the emerging IT and life sciences sectors are the foundations for a vibrant and growing economy.

Close to Pictou Island, the town of Pictou and the surrounding communities of New Glasgow, Stellarton and Trenton are beautiful, historic towns filled with diverse culture, architecture and modern-day conveniences. The whole region is known for its innovative thinkers, business leaders and hard-working, salt of the earth people who have a great talent for warm hospitality.