The Birth of a New Scotland
(Tom Messer - Editor, The Scotian)

Ever wonder how Nova Scotia (Latin for New Scotland) was so named? Here's an episode of Canadian history with a Scottish flavour. During the reign of James VI from 1567 to 1625, who became King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1603, when the Crowns of England and Scotland were united, many new lands were discovered across hitherto unknown seas. People who were unhappy, restless or poor, and ill-treated because of their religion, longed for a new life, a new beginning in these new lands. So there arose in the New World, as it was then called, a new England, a new France, a new Spain/ Why not a new Scotland?.....

To continue this story, read further in August 2008's Scotian.