Boylston, Nova Scotia

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Boylston is a rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in the Municipality of the District of Guysborough in Guysborough County. There is a provincial park camp-ground in Boylston.^[1]

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern border with the United States, stretching some 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world's longest bi-national land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime Provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest of Canada's ten provinces, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598. Nova Scotia is Canada's second-most-densely populated province, after Prince Edward Island, with 17.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (45/sq mi).

Guysborough County, Nova Scotia County in Nova Scotia, Canada

Guysborough County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

Some researchers have asserted that Boylston was visited by Henry Sinclair based on evidence in the Zeno Narrative.^{[ citation needed ]}

Henry I Sinclair, Jarl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin was a Scottish and a Norwegian nobleman. Sinclair held the title Earl of Orkney under the King of Norway. He is sometimes identified by another spelling of his surname, St. Clair. He was the grandfather of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, the builder of Rosslyn Chapel. He is best known today because of a modern legend that he took part in explorations of Greenland and North America almost 100 years before Christopher Columbus. William Thomson, in his book The New History of Orkney, wrote: "It has been Earl Henry's singular fate to enjoy an ever-expanding posthumous reputation which has very little to do with anything he achieved in his lifetime."

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References

↑ "Boylston Provincial Campground". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2011-09-25.

Coordinates: 45°26′6″N61°30′11″W / 45.43500°N 61.50306°W / 45.43500; -61.50306 (Boylston, Nova Scotia)

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[1] "Boylston Provincial Campground". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2011-09-25.