Hi again, Here is a page describing the history of the "Dominion of Canada," and I just read something I didn't know: The name Canada comes from a St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier towards the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but also the entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada. >From the early 17th century onwards, that part of New France that lay along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes was named Canada, an area that was later split into two British colonies, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, until their re-unification as the Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was adopted as the legal name for the new country,[13] and Dominion was conferred as the country's title;[14] combined, the term Dominion of Canada was in common usage until the 1950s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada This page doesn't really concentrate on what was going on in Nova Scotia during the 1700's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia This page mentions "the Planters" during the 1700's: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/About_Clans/HtySctNS.html .. That's all I can offer this morning. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator FYI: In this search, I came across this Google/Book. I don't know who the gentleman was, but maybe someone is interested in the story: http://books.google.com/books?id=IeBxAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Nova+Scotia+history%22&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=oXKvSticHdPslAfWp_25Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#v=onepage&q=&f=false