2016 Census of Population Aggregate Dissemination Area (ADA) maps and Dissemination Area (DA) maps for Cape Breton, Nova Scotia [222 PDF files].

The dataset provides the predominate and traditional family names of African Nova Scotians in 6 regions in Nova Scotia. The regions consist of Halifax Metro, South Shore and Yarmouth and Acadian Shore, Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, Northumberland Shore, Eastern Shore and Cape Breton Island. Within all these regions you find 48+ traditional African Nova Scotian communities. The dataset will also provide the communities you can find in each of the six regions.

Contained within the 1st Edition (1906) of the Atlas of Canada is a plate that shows two maps. The first map that shows origins of the people in Maritime provinces and Eastern Quebec, circa 1901. The second map that shows origins of the people in Quebec and Ontario, circa 1901.A varying number of ethnic groups are shown, but mainly: English, Scotch [Scottish], Irish, French and German. People of British origin predominate all provinces, except Quebec, where the French predominated. The French also predominate in adjacent portions of Quebec, such as portions of eastern Ontario, northern New Brunswick, southwestern Nova Scotia, and in the southern portion of Cape Breton. In two small areas near Halifax, N.S., the map indicates descendants of deported persons from Jamaica. The Germans were principally descendants of United Empire Loyalists predominating portions of southern Nova Scotia, Waterlook, Lincoln and Welland counties. Communities with a population greater than 5000 people are shown as proportional dots on the map. In addition, major railway systems displayed.

θ is effective population size (θ = 4Nμ) for first (θ1) and second (θ2) populations in the model and their ancestral population (θA); migration rates m1→2/μ and m2→1/μ are from first to second and second to first population in the model, respectively; divergence time is converted to thousands years (ka) using mutation rates of 2 and 4% per Ma. Values in parentheses represent 90% HPD confidence intervals for each parameter (see Table S3 for probability analysis of significant differences between parameters).Groups of populations are as following (see map in Fig. 1):NEA – Northeast Atlantic; ISL - Northeast Atlantic islands; NWA – Northwest Atlantic; NEA(S) includes NEA sites grouped in SAMOVA with North Atlantic islands (Ireland-1, Norway, Barents Sea, White Sea, Sweden-2, Germany, Belgium and France); NWA(S) includes NWA populations grouped in SAMOVA with North Atlantic islands (Cape Breton in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland); NEA(MAIN) includes mainland sites in Europe; BI includes all British Isles sites; CAN includes all Maritime Canada sites; USSOUTH includes southern US sites below 43°N; EUROPE(S) includes European sites (British Isles and Sweden) that formed a group with Venice in SAMOVA analyses; SPAIN is the site in Galicia; VENICE is the Venetian lagoon site.