Nova Scotia is a small Canadian Province on the Atlantic Coast that along with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, forms the Maritime Provinces (when you include Newfoundland, you have the Atlantic Provinces). It is a very fine place to live, work, and have fun. It is also where I was born and grew up.

The capital city is Halifax, a bustling major port with a large nightlife, cruise ship destination, and a major military port for both Canada and NATO. You can often see giant vessels in the harbour, ranging from cargo ships to aircraft carriers. Halifax Harbour is brought to life in the children's show Theodore Tugboat, as the Big Busy Harbour is a very close depiction of the harbour. Of course, the fact that Halifax Harbour is extremely polluted does not appear in the show, as the little tugboats would be less that ready to go playing in the raw sewage and pollution being flushed with no control into the harbour daily.

Halifax is also home to Dalhousie University (one of Canada's finest), Saint Mary's University, University of King's College, Atlantic School of Theology, and Mount Saint Vincent University. With this in mind, it is a very young city, with many well educated citizens and a sofistication somewhat unusual for a smaller city.

Nova Scotia's other city is Sydney, which with Glace Bay, Dominion, and New Waterford, make up Industrial Cape Breton. It is located on Cape Breton Island in the north of the province. Sydney is home to the worst industrial pollution nightmare imaginable - the Tar Ponds. The ponds are the result of txoc sludge being dumped as a by-product of over 100 year of steel-making at Sydney Steel. The environmental hazard is some 300 times as big as the Love Canal ever became, and as a result, Sydney has Canada's highest cancer rates. Governments cannot seem to agree nor are they willing to undertake the cleanup required. Sydney is also the home of the Univeristy College of Cape Breton. Nearby Baddeck features a major museum about and the former home of Alexander Graham Bell.

Other locations in NS worthy of visiting include Antigonish (home of Saint Francis Xavier University), Wolfville (home of Acadia University), Truro, Yarmouth, and many other small towns with dot the coast. In fact, much of Nova Scotia's coast is unspoiled beaches and great surfing conditions.