Nova Scotia

n 1: a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and

the Saint Lawrence River [syn: {Nova Scotia}]

2: the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the

Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French

settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to

Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their

descendants are know as Cajuns [syn: {Nova Scotia}]