- Nova Scotia was recently recognized as the second most competitive province in Canada for attracting international investment.
- The highest tides on earth occur near Wolfville, Nova Scotia – large enough to completely submerge a 4-storey building.
- Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island was named one of the top 10 islands in the world by Travel and Leisure Online in 2006.
- Each year Nova Scotia sends the city of Boston a massive Christmas tree in appreciation for its aid during the 1917 “Halifax Explosion”.
- In 1985, the largest fossil find in North America was unearthed near Parrsboro Nova Scotia.
- Nova Scotia is home to North America’s only commercial tidal power plant, employing the world’s largest straight-flow turbine.
- Oak Island’s “Money Pit”, on the south coast of Nova Scotia, is home to one of the world’s most famous treasure quests.
- Nova Scotia was ranked as one of the top ten paradises in the world by Transworld Surf Magazine.
- Halifax harbour is the second largest in the world.
- Nova Scotia has more than100 publicly-accessible beaches, 129 provincial parks, 2 national parks and16 historic sites
- Nova Scotia has the mildest winters in Canada; on average it is Canada's warmest province.
- Nova Scotia communities consistently rank as some of the lowest-cost places to do business in KPMG’s annual survey of business costs
- 6.7% of Nova Scotians work from home.
- The median distance of Nova Scotians to their workplaces is 7.8 kilometers, or just under 5 miles.
- Halifax Stanfield International Airport is an emergency landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle.
- Broadband Internet access will be available to every home and business in Nova Scotia by 2009.
- Nova Scotia is the first location in Canada to use an abandoned coal mine as a source for industrial-scale heating and cooling.
- Nova Scotia has the fourth largest natural gas producing basin in North America.
- 89% of Nova Scotia’s university graduates remain in the province.
- 100% of Nova Scotia households have access to the curbside collection of recyclable materials.
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