an early name for Nova Scotia.
- c1621  (1891)  It was in all future time to have the name of New Scotland or, as it appears in the courtly Latin of the original, Nova Scotia.
- c1621  (1891)  It is very important that all our beloved subjects who inhabit the said Province of New Scotland or its borders may live in the fear of Almighty God. . . .
- 1922  The Province was incorporated in one entire free barony which was to be called in all future time by the name of "New Scotland."