Nova Scotia Map is an independent online reference of places, communities, and points of interest across the province from the working harbour in Halifax to the lighthouses of the South Shore, the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, the orchards of the Annapolis Valley, and the small fishing communities tucked along the Atlantic and the Bay of Fundy.
Our purpose
Nova Scotia is not a large province – roughly 55,000 square kilometres, but it has more than 13,000 kilometres of coastline, two distinct landmasses joined by a narrow isthmus, and an enormous range of small communities for its size. Cataloguing all of it is an ongoing project, not a finished one. What we aim to provide is a clear starting point: a page for a town, a page for a neighbourhood, a page for a landmark written plainly, kept tidy, and tied to a location on the map.
We aren’t a tourism board, a booking platform, or a review site. We’re a reference, closer to a public library catalogue than a travel agency. The land we cover is the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, and we try to use place names and context that reflect that where it’s appropriate.
Where the information comes from
Geographic data on this site is built on OpenStreetMap, the open and community-maintained map of the world. All editorial content descriptions, history, context is written in-house using municipal pages, provincial records, and other public sources. Where a fact is likely to age quickly (population numbers, opening years, jurisdictional boundaries), we try to qualify it rather than state it as permanent.
Who runs it
A small Canadian team. Map enthusiasts, writers, and developers who think well-organized geographic information is genuinely useful to newcomers learning the province, to long-time residents curious about places they’ve never been, to anyone trying to picture where a particular town actually sits.
What this site is not
Worth saying plainly. Nova Scotia Map does not provide:
- Live navigation or turn-by-turn directions
- Bookings, reservations, or commercial services
- Personal travel itineraries or relocation advice
- Emergency information — in an emergency, please call 911
- Official municipal, provincial, or federal communications
For any of the above, the appropriate municipal office, provincial department, or emergency service is the right place to turn.
Get in touch
If you’ve noticed something worth flagging – a detail that’s gone out of date, a page that won’t load properly, or an idea for how the site could be more useful – we’d like to hear from you. We read every message that concerns the website itself, the locations listed on it, or the way the pages behave on your device.
The simplest way to reach us is by email at the address shown on screen. To help us sort messages quickly, please include novascotiamap.com somewhere in the subject line.
A word on accuracy
Every entry here is published in good faith and checked against publicly available sources at the time of writing. Places change quickly, though – shops close, parks are renamed, addresses get re-numbered and we can’t promise everything is current down to the day. The map data itself comes from OpenStreetMap, so corrections to streets, boundaries, or points of interest on the map are best submitted through the OpenStreetMap community directly. Their changes flow back to us in due course.