Nova Scotia is where my dad's side of the family arrived from Wales. There was a split in the family and a bunch moved to the US at about the time of the Revolutionary War.
Nova Scotia is (mostly, except for short stints in B.C. and England) where I grew up and went to public school and university. My father was in the navy, so it was either there or Esquimalt, B.C. We mostly stayed in the Halifax area. I wasn't really a Nova Scotian, though, you aren't unless your family roots there go back at least 4 or 5 generations. I miss it, but the economic opportunities down there just aren't great. Now I live in Hamilton, Ontario (Steel town).
Interesting. My dad's family came from France and settled in Nova Scotia; our family got split by the Expulsion (Acadians were given the choice of swearing allegiance to the Crown or leaving). Most of those who left wound up in Louisiana (French-held at the time) and became known as Cajuns because "Acadien" in their accent sounds like "Cajun" to an anglo. To this day everyone in North America with my surname can be traced back to the same couple in Nova Scotia.