Other uses Scotia disambiguation See also Caledonia File Public Schools Historical Atlas Roman Britain 400.jpg thumb 250px A mapping of the Roman divisions of Ireland and Scotland with the Scoti shown as a tribal grouping in the north of Ireland Scotia was originally a Ancient Rome Roman name for Ireland , inhabited by the people they called Scoti or Scotii . Use of the name shifted in the Middle Ages ... 1521 decreed that the use of the name Scotia be confined to referring to land that is now Scotland ... of Europe, pp. 376 379 ref Virtually all names for Scotland are based on the Scotia root cf. French ... language Welsh Yr Alban. Medieval usage Image Blaeu Atlas of Scotland 1654 SCOTIA ANTIQUA Old Scotland.jpg thumb A map from 1654 illustrating the latter use of Scotia for Scotland and Hibernia Ivverna for Ireland Scotia was never one fixed place in the Middle Ages. It was a way of saying Land of the Gaels ... for Ireland, as when Isidore of Seville in 580 CE says Scotia and Hibernia are the same country ... Ireland was called Scotia Maior , and Scotland Scotia Minor . After the fall of the Roman Empire, the coasts ... the 11th century, Scotia , when Scotland was already stabilised as a nation kingdom, was used mostly ... , Scotia could mean both the whole Kingdom belonging to the King of Scots rex Scottorum , or just ... named it Scotia, from their mother s name, Scota , who was the daughter of Pharaoh Nectanebo I , king ... Amenophis Keating named him Cincris . See also Scotia s Grave , in the hills, just south of Tralee , County ... Scotia New Scotland the village of Scotia, New York Scotia in New York New York State the Scotia Sea ... Scotia rarely as a feminine first name Scotia Gas Networks SGN is the holding company of Scotland ... Scotland s national LGBT pride festival is named Pride Scotia and involves a March and a community ... Category History of Ireland Category Late Iron Age Scotland de Scotia fr Scotia nl Scotia no Scotia pl Scotia vo Scotia ... more details
Scotia disambiguation may refer to Places Scotia , Latin name of Scotland Scotia, California , USA Scotia, Nebraska , USA Scotia, New York , USA Scotia, Pennsylvania , USA Scotia, South Carolina , USA Scotia Arc , island arc system in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans Scotia Sea , sea bounded by the Scotia Arc islands of the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans Scotia Sanctuary , New South Wales, Australia Other RMS Scotia , British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line Scotia , is an American synthpop musical project by Joey Rickman Scota , or Scotia, in Irish mythology the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh Scotia moth Scotia moth , genus of moths of the Noctuidae family Scotiabank See also Nova Scotia Disambig de Scotia fr Scotia homonymie hr Scotia it Scotia nl Scotia pl Scotia pt Scotia vo Scotia ... more details
Scotia was the name of a number of steamships. SS Scotia 1847 , in service with the London and North Western Railway until 1861. SS Scotia 1898 , a paddle steamer in use in List of historical ships in British Columbia British Colombia until 1917, destroyed by fire in 1967. TSS Scotia 1902 TSS Scotia 1902 , in service with the London and North Western Railway until 1920. TSS Scotia 1920 TSS Scotia 1920 , in service with the London and North Western Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway until sunk in 1940. shipindex ... more details
italic title Taxobox name Blastobasis scotia image image width 150px image caption regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera subordo Glossata infraordo Heteroneura unranked superfamilia Ditrysia superfamilia Gelechioidea familia Blastobasidae genus Blastobasis species B. scotia binomial Blastobasis scotia binomial authority Turner, 1947 synonyms Blastobasis scotia is a moth of the Blastobasidae family. It is found in Australia . External links http www.environment.gov.au biodiversity abrs online resources fauna afd taxa Blastobasis scotia Australian Faunal Directory wikispecies commons Category Lepidoptera of Australia Category Blastobasidae Blastobasidae stub pt Blastobasis scotia vi Blastobasis scotia ... more details
File Scotia Speedworld Racign 2010.jpg thumb right Racing action at Scotia Speedworld Scotia Speedworld is a Canada Canadian motorsport race track in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia Halifax Regional Municipality . Situated south of Enfield, Nova Scotia Enfield on Nova Scotia Highway 102 Highway 102 immediately west of Halifax International Airport , the facility was built in 1987 and seats 6,000 spectators. The track will celebrate its 25th year of racing in 2011. The track is a 3 10 mile D oval, asphalt with concrete in lower groove on corners. Weekly racing include the following classes Sportsman, Trucks, Legends, Thunder Cars, Lightning Cars and Bandoleros. Special events include the USHRA Monster Jam Summer Heat Tour and the Parts for Trucks Maritime Pro Stock Tour. The track operates from May to September. External links http www.scotiaspeedworld.ca index.html Scotia Speedworld Website http www.stock.mattjacques.com c mattjacques gallery collection Scotia SpeedWorld 2009 P0000AWUx.efz Ck Scotia Speedworld 2009 Racing Season Images Category Paved oval racing venues in Canada Category Sports venues in the Halifax Regional Municipality coord 44 52 19 N 63 32 14 W region CA NS type landmark display title Canada sports venue stub race sports stub ... more details
Scotia Sanctuary is a 650 km sup 2 sup nature reserve in the south western plains of New South Wales , Australia , adjacent to the border with South Australia . It is located in the Murray Mallee subregion of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion , 150 km south of the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales Broken Hill . It is owned and managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy AWC . History Scotia comprises two former grazing properties, Tararra and Ennisvale, which were purchased by Earth Sanctuaries Earth Sanctuaries Limited in 1994, and eventually acquired by AWC in 2002. ref name Scotia history http www.australianwildlife.org scotia.asp?Type History Scotia History ref Landscape and climate Scotia is characterised by a low relief landscape of plains with parallel sand dunes and open calcareous Swale geographical feature swale s. Surface water is limited by the sandy soils and there are no watercourses. ref name Scotia general http www.australianwildlife.org scotia.asp?Type General Scotia General ref The climate is one of cool winters and hot summers in an arid region, with irregular rainfall averaging an annual 250 mm. ref name Scotia climate http www.australianwildlife.org scotia.asp?Type Climate Scotia Climate ref Ecosystems Scotia s habitats include various Eucalyptus open shrubland Mallee habit mallee communities and sheoak woodland s, . ref name Scotia ecosystems http www.australianwildlife.org scotia ecosystems.asp Scotia Ecosystems ref Fauna The Scotia Endangered Mammal Recovery Project is a program of reintroduction of mammals that have become extinct regionally, in order to establish viable, self sustaining populations. Species reintroduced so far include ... Stick nest Rat . Threatened bird species present on Scotia include Malleefowl , Regent Parrot Regent and Scarlet chested Parrot s, Striated Grasswren and Black eared Miner . ref name Scotia wildlife http www.australianwildlife.org scotia wildlife.asp Scotia Wildlife ref References reflist External ... more details
Image Plates tect2 en.svg thumb right 300px legend A8C8C0 The Scotia plate, shown in blue green towards the bottom of the map border 000 solid 1px The Scotia Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate bordering the South American Plate on the north, the South Sandwich Plate to the east, and the Antarctic Plate on the south and west. The north and south boundaries of the plate are transform fault boundaries. At the eastern margin the Scotia has a Mid ocean ridge spreading boundary between it and the small South Sandwich Plate. The South American Plate is subducting under east side of the South Sandwich Plate, which is thought to have brought about its separation from the Scotia Plate, starting as backarc spreading . The western boundary with the Antarctic plate is a complex and rather ill defined boundary. The plate is named after the Scotia sea , under which it lies. See also Magallanes Fagnano Fault Shackleton Fracture Zone References unsourced date March 2011 Tectonic plates Category Tectonic plates Category Geology of the Atlantic Ocean Category Geology of Chile tectonics stub ca Placa de Scotia de Scotia Platte et Scotia laam es Placa Escocesa eu Scotia Plaka fr Plaque Scotia ko it Placca di Scotia nl Scotiaplaat ja pt Placa de Scotia uk vi M ng Scotia zh ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2008 Image Scotia Square Inside.JPG thumb 240px Inside of Scotia Square Image Scotiasquaremap.JPG thumb 240px Map of Scotia Square. Scotia Square is a large commercial development in Downtown Halifax , in the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia owned by Halifax Developments Limited. It was built in the late sixties to mid seventies. It is connected to the Downtown Halifax Link and serves as a major Metro Transit Halifax Metro Transit bus terminal in Halifax. http halifaxdevelopments.com about.asp . History At its peak in the 1980s, Scotia Square was a shopping destination for many in the city. Among some of the most notable shops and services within the mall was a Woolco department store, a single screen Famous Players theatre http movie theatre.org canada ns Halifax halifax.pdf , the Dick Turpin tavern, a 1950s style diner complete with an antique car in its entrance, a food court known as the Port of Call, and an area on the second level where the store fronts were all designed to resemble a small town village. Woolco closed in 1994, shortly before the chain ... Telecom converted the space into a call centre. Scotia Square used to have many retail shops on its .... Expand section date June 2008 Location and layout Scotia Square consists of a shopping mall mall ... Market Street to the west. Scotia Square caters to mainly professionals who work in the downtown area ... Scotia Square Mall 2 floors Pedways and tunnels Pedway connecting Brunswick Street to the Scotia Square ... connecting the northwest corner of Scotia Square Parkade topmost level to Brunswick Place formerly called Trade Mart building , which is located beside Scotia Square Parkade, on the north side ... Street Pedway mentioned above. Pedway going from Scotia Square Mall, over Barrington Street ... Scotia , the Bank of Commerce Halifax CIBC Building , and the TD Tower Halifax TD Tower . See also ... Shopping malls in Nova Scotia ... more details
Image Scotia Sea.png thumb Approximate area of the sea in the Southern Hemisphere Image LaunchingTheJamesCaird2.jpg thumb 300px right Launching the James Caird boat James Caird from the shore of Elephant Island , 24 April 1916 The Scotia Sea coord 57 30 S 40 00 W scale 20000000 display inline,title is partly in the Southern Ocean and mostly in the South Atlantic Ocean . Location and description Habitually stormy and cold, the Scotia Sea is the area of water between Tierra del Fuego , South Georgia , South Sandwich Islands , South Orkney Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula , and bordered on the west by Drake Passage . These island groups all sit on top of the Scotia Ridge , which frames the Scotia Sea north, east, and south. The Scotia Sea covers an area of about 900,000 km . About half of the sea stands above the continental shelf . The islands are rocky and partly covered in ice and snow the year round. History Named in about 1932 after the Scotia , the expedition ship used in these waters .... In Argentina , the Scotia Sea is considered part of the Argentine Sea Spanish language Spanish Mar ... do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion , which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands and the South Orkneys in the Scotia ... by international agreements and Fur Seal populations are recovering. South Scotia Ridge South Scotia Ridge coor dm 60 0 S 46 30 W is an undersea ridge named in association with the Scotia Sea . Name approved ... terrestrial an an1103 full.html Scotia Sea Islands tundra WWF scientific report Further reading ... ecozone be de Schottische See et Scotia meri es Mar del Scotia fr Mer de Scotia fy Skotiasee hr Scotia more id Laut Scotia it Mare di Scotia ka lv Skotijas j ra lt Skotijos j ra nl Scotiazee ja no Scotiahavet pl Morze Scotia pt Mar de Scotia ru sv Scotiahavet uk war Dagat Scotia zh ... more details
Infobox Province or territory of Canada Name Nova Scotia AlternateName Nouvelle cosse , Alba Nuadh br New Scotland English Fullname Province of Nova Scotia EntityAdjective Provincial Flag Flag of Nova Scotia.svg CoatOfArms Coat of Arms of Nova Scotia.svg Map Nova Scotia, Canada.svg Label map no Motto ... left 30px Spaces 2 Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Tree Image Picea rubens cone.jpg left 30px ... Darrell Dexter PremierParty Nova Scotia New Democratic Party NDP Viceroy Mayann Francis ViceroyType Lieutenant Governor Legislature Nova Scotia House of Assembly PostalAbbreviation NS PostalCodePrefix ... 10 ISOCode CA NS Website www.gov.ns.ca Coord 45 13 N 62 42 W name Nova Scotia region CA NS type adm1st display title Nova Scotia pronounced IPAc en n o v s k o English New Scotland lang fr Nouvelle cosse lang gd Alba Nuadh ref Latin Nova Scotia lang en New Scotland lang gd Alba Nuadh ... Canada . The provincial capital is Halifax Regional Municipality Halifax . Nova Scotia is the second ... t091223b2 eng.htm ref which makes Nova Scotia the second most densely populated province. The province ... Peninsula . ref Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi kmaq people when the first European ... in Canada and the first north of Florida at Port Royal, Nova Scotia Port Royal , founding what ... Scotia . The capital of Nova Scotia was changed from Annapolis Royal to the newly established Halifax ... of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John s Island became a separate colony. Nova Scotia included present day ..., Nova Scotia Sunbury was created. This included the territory of present day New Brunswick and eastern Maine as far as the Penobscot River. ref In 1867 Nova Scotia was one of the four founding provinces ..., German, Italian and many other peoples in Nova Scotia. History Main History of Nova Scotia Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century The history of Nova Scotia was significantly influenced by the warfare ... lived in Nova Scotia for centuries. The French arrived in 1604. Catholic Mi kmaq and Acadians were ... more details
Taxobox image regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera familia Noctuidae genus Scotia Scotia is a genus of moth s of the Noctuidae family. References http www.nhm.ac.uk jdsml research curation projects butmoth GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL &FAMILYqtype starts with&FAMILY noctuidae&SUBFAMILYqtype starts with&SUBFAMILY &TRIBEqtype starts with&TRIBE &SUBTRIBEqtype starts with&SUBTRIBE &GENUSqtype starts with&GENUS &AUTHORqtype starts with&AUTHOR &YEARqtype equals&YEAR &sort GENUS Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Noctuidae stub Category Noctuidae ... more details
Scotia Arc is the island arc system forming the north, east and south border of Scotia Sea . The arc comprises submarine ridges and the island groups of South Orkney Islands South Orkneys , South Sandwich Islands , Clerke Rocks , South Georgia , Shag Rocks, South Georgia Shag Rocks , Isla de los Estados , and Burdwood Bank http findarticles.com p articles mi qa3721 is 199811 ai n8823602 linking the mountains of Antarctic Peninsula to those of Tierra del Fuego specifically the Mitre Peninsula and the Andes . ref http www.britannica.com eb article 9066345 Scotia Arc Scotia Arc Britannica Online Encyclopedia ref The arc is related to the subduction of the South American Plate to its east under the South Sandwich Plate . See also Scotia Sea References reflist coord 57 30 S 40 00 W scale 20000000 display title Category Volcanism of Antarctica Category Volcanic arc islands SouthGeorgia geo stub es Dorsal del Scotia nl Scotiarug zh ... more details
Infobox skyscraper building name Scotia Plaza image File Scotia Plaza 2009.JPG 250px caption former name Scotia Plaza Tower location 40 King Street Toronto King Street West br Toronto , Ontario coordinates coord 43.649167 79.379444 region CA ON type landmark display title,inline constructed 1985 1988 use Commercial offices roof convert 274.9 m abbr on floor count 68 elevator count 44 cost floor area convert 148,658 m abbr on architect WZMH Architects engineer Quinn Dressel Associates br Hidi Rae Consulting Engineers contractor PCL Constructors developer Campeau Corporation br Bank of Nova Scotia owner management references ref emporis 112572 ref ref glasssteelandstone 3551 ref ref skyscraperpage 696 ref ref structurae s0003255 ref Scotia Plaza is a Postmodern architecture Postmodern commercial office complex in the city of Toronto , Ontario , Canada . The complex is situated in the Financial District, Toronto financial district of the Downtown Toronto downtown core , and is generally bordered by Yonge Street on the east, King Street Toronto King Street West on the south, Bay Street on the west, and Adelaide Street West on the north. Scotia Plaza is connected to the PATH Toronto PATH network, and contains convert 190000 m2 sqft 0 abbr on of office space and 40 retail stores. The complex ... the Bank of Nova Scotia s head office and Toronto Main banking Branch functions with minimal ... Bank of Nova Scotia head office building at 44 King Street West, which was designed by architects Mathers ... houses the teller services for the Bank of Nova Scotia s main branch. gallery File Scotia Plaza 2.JPG ... plaza construction.jpg Scotia plaza construction gallery See also List of tallest buildings in Toronto References reflist External links http www.scotiaplaza.com about overview.asp Scotia Plaza Toronto ... in Toronto Category PATH Toronto Category Postmodern architecture in Canada de Scotia Plaza es Scotia Plaza fr Scotia Plaza ko pl Scotia Plaza pt Scotia Plaza uk vi Scotia Plaza ... more details
coord 53 32 28 N 113 29 34 W type landmark display title Image Scotia Place Edmonton.jpg thumb 250px right Scotia Place Scotia Place is an office tower complex in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada that was completed in 1983. It is located at 10060 Jasper Avenue in the heart of Downtown Edmonton Edmonton s Downtown . It is home to several long term tenants such as Grant Thornton , APEGGA , Ernst & Young and Edmonton Transit System Edmonton Transit . The namesake of the complex is Scotiabank . Towers The highest skyscraper in the complex is Scotia 1 , with 28 floors and reaching m to ft 113 abbr yes wiki yes . ref Cite web url http www.emporis.com en wm bu ?id scotia1 edmonton canada title Scotia 1 author Emporis authorlink Emporis accessdate 2008 06 12 ref class wikitable sortable aling center Tower Floors Height Built 1 28 m to ft 113 abbr yes 1982 2 21 m to ft 88 abbr yes 1983 Pedway Edmonton Pedway Edmonton s extensive Pedway system allows downtown visitors to travel indoors to avoid the extreme weather. Scotia Place is part of that pedway which is linked directly to both the Edmonton LRT system and Manulife Place . See also List of tallest buildings in Edmonton References reflist External links http www.scotiaplace.com Scotia Place Category 1983 architecture Category Bank buildings in Canada Category Office buildings in Canada Category Buildings and structures in Edmonton Category Postmodern architecture in Canada Category Skyscrapers in Edmonton Category Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters Edmonton stub Alberta struct stub ... more details
coord 40 28 56 N 124 06 03 W display title Infobox settlement name Scotia settlement type Unincorporated area Unincorporated community image skyline Scotia, California 146.JPG imagesize image caption Main Street in Scotia image seal image map mapsize map caption image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 coordinates ... Scotia formerly, Forestville ref name CGN is an unincorporated area unincorporated community in Humboldt ... zip4 citytown.jsp USPS ZIP Code lookup tool ref Scotia is a company town , wholly owned by Pacific ..., California and convert 244 mi km north of San Francisco . History Scotia was founded in 1863 as Forestville and renamed 25 years later. At the time of its founding, Scotia was just one of many ... . Scotia, however, was one of a relative handful of company towns to survive this period. Most of the existing homes were built between the 1920s and 1950s. The first post office at Scotia opened in 1888. ref name CGN The Humboldt Bay and Eel River Railroad connected Scotia to Humboldt Bay in 1885 ... board feet of redwood logs and 23 million board feet of lumber were washed out of the Scotia ... large 1992 earthquake caused widespread regional damage. A fire broke out in Scotia s only ... property. The company suggested that Scotia become part of Rio Dell, California Rio ... , joined by Mendocino Redwood Company MRC . Pursuant to that plan, most of the Town of Scotia s real and personal assets transferred to a reorganized entity wholly owned by Marathon, Town of Scotia Company, LLC TOS . Under the plan, the active Scotia sawmill facilities and other ancillary office ..., Corpus Christi Division as Case No. 07 20027 C 11 under the consolidated title, In Re Scotia Development LLC, et al. , Debtors. The Town of Scotia LLC has pursued a General Plan Amendment Zone Reclassification ... and operated by the Town of Scotia LLC to individual property owners. ref Humboldt County Community Development Services staff report for the Scotia General Plan Amdnement, Nov. 2009 ref Infrastructure ... more details
No footnotes date July 2009 Primary sources date July 2009 Football club infobox clubname Balgonie Scotia image fullname Balgonie Scotia AFC nickname Scotia founded 1896 ground King George V Park, Coaltown of Balgonie chairman File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Davie Brown manager File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Neil Sellars league Kingdom Caledonian Football League Balgonie Scotia AFC are a football club that are based in Coaltown of Balgonie , on the outskirts of Glenrothes , in Fife and are one of the oldest amateur teams in Scotland . Recent history For most part of the early 2000s Balgonie Scotia Amateurs were at the foot of the Kingdom Caledonian League. This had been the case for numerous seasons as the club was stuck in a rut. New chairman, Davie Brown, decided to gradually introduce ... of the current squads for the forthcoming 2009 2010 season. Current squads Balgonie Scotia 1896 ... 20px Scots Mikey Valente Physio File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Davie McNab Balgonie Scotia AFC ... TBC Physio File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Keith Black Balgonie Scotia 19s class wikitable border ... of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Keith Black Balgonie Scotia 1997s class wikitable border 1 Manager File ... Alan White Club Captain File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Kyle McIntyre Balgonie Scotia 1998s class wikitable border 1 Coach File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Martyn King Balgonie Scotia 2000s class ... Club awards 2008 09 Balgonie Scotia 1896 AFC Top Goalscorer Award Mikey Valente Committees Player of the Year Martyn Sword Players Player of the Year Kevin Oswald Balgonie Scotia AFC No awards presented as new team Balgonie Scotia 19s Top Goalscorer Award Michael Lister Committees Player of the Year Andy Reid Players Player of the Year Greg Spence Balgonie Scotia 1997s Top Goal Scorer Award Fraser ... Scotia 1998s Top Goal Scorer Award Jordan Murray Coaches Player of the Year Ryan Proctor Players Player of the Year Jordan Murray Balgonie Scotia 2000s Top Goal Scorer Award Kyle McLean Coaches Player ... more details
Scotia Bay is a bay 2.5 miles 4.0 km wide, lying immediately east of Mossman Peninsula on the south side of Laurie Island , in the South Orkney Islands . Discovered and roughly charted in the course of the joint cruise by Captain George Powell mariner George Powell and Captain Nathaniel Palmer in 1821. Surveyed in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs Bruce . He named it for the expedition ship Scotia. coord 60 46 S 44 40 W display title usgs gazetteer Category Bays of South Georgia SouthGeorgia geo stub ... more details
Image Scotiabank tower vancouver.jpg left thumb 100px Scotia Tower, as seen from Seymour Street. Image Scotia bldg.jpg right thumb 100px Scotia Tower, as seen from Georgia Street. Scotia Tower is a prominent skyscraper located at 650 West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver Downtown Vancouver . The 12th tallest building in the city, it stands at 138 m or 34 storeys tall and completed in 1977 and is a landmark skyscraper near the end of the central business district. The building houses Scotiabank operations for British Columbia and the underground Vancouver Centre Mall Vancouver Centre , with its various shoppes and attendant street retail and theatres. The malls are linked to Pacific Centre and the Bay and a SkyTrain Vancouver SkyTrain subway station via subterranean passages beneath Georgia and Granville Streets. The Georgia and Granville corner of the site was the former location of the Birk s Store in Vancouver, an ornate Edwardian edifice that was torn down in 1974 to make way for construction of the Scotia Tower and Vancouver Centre. Birk s was the first tenant in the new corner retail location after the Centre es construction but has since moved to Granville and West Hastings that location is now the main downtown store of London Drugs . The Georgia Street side of the Scotia Tower Vancouver Centre was the location of the old Strand Theatre Vancouver Strand Theatre , the only one of Vancouver s Theatre Row not directly on Granville Street. That movie house was later replaced by the Vancouver Centre Cinemas now closed in 1977. See also List of tallest buildings in Vancouver References http www.emporis.com en wm bu ?id scotiatower vancouver canada Emporis.com coord 49.281762 N 123.117718 W display title Category Skyscrapers in Vancouver Category Shopping malls in Metro Vancouver Category Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters Category 1977 architecture Category Bank buildings in Canada Category Modernist architecture in Canada BritishColumbia struct stub vancouver ... more details
Infobox skyscraper building name Tour Scotia image File Tour Scotia, Montr al 2005 10 22.JPG 215px built 1990 use Office location 1002 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal , Quebec , Canada coordinates coord 45.505866 N 73.575525 W display inline,title roof convert 127.64 m ft top floor antenna spire floor count 27 floor area elevator count 10 architect WZMH Architects engineer Menk s Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux references ref skyscraperpage 1991 ref ref emporis 112369 ref Tour Scotia is a skyscraper in Downtown Montreal downtown Montreal , Quebec , Canada . It is 27 stories, and convert 127.64 m ft tall. It was designed by WZMH Architects and constructed in 1990. It was built in the postmodern architectural style, with granite and glass facades. Tour Scotia is located at 1002 Sherbrooke Street West opposite McTavish Street , and is linked to Montreal s Underground city, Montreal Underground City and Peel Montreal Metro Peel station on the Montreal Metro . See also List of tallest buildings in Montreal References Reflist External links http www.emporis.com en wm bu ?id 112369 Emporis datasheet http skyscraperpage.com cities ?buildingID 1991 SkyscraperPage datasheet http www.imtl.org edifices Tour Scotia.php?noter 1¬e 8 Tour Scotia Building images and data on IMTL Montreal tallest buildings Category Skyscrapers in Montreal Category Buildings and structures completed in 1990 Category Postmodern architecture in Canada Category Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters montreal stub fr Tour Scotia ... more details
of Cunard s Scotia at the Science Museum in London Infobox Ship Career Hide header Ship country ... Kingdom Ship name Scotia Ship namesake Ship owner Cunard Line Ship operator Ship registry Ship ... Ship aircraft Ship aircraft facilities Ship notes Scotia was a British passenger liner operated .... Laid up in 1876, Scotia was converted to a twin screw cable layer in 1879. She served in her new .... Scotia was originally planned as a sister for Persia . However, the project was delayed after the loss ... pages ref When Scotia was finally built, she was a larger edition of Persia with an extra deck. ref ... of Glasgow, Scotia was the second largest ship in the world after Great Eastern . She carried 273 first class passengers and 50 in second class. Scotia did not have quarters for steerage. Her two ... 164 tons of coal per day. Service history Scotia and China relieved Asia and Africa on the New York ... 1863, Scotia won the Blue Riband with a Queenstown New York voyage of 14.46 knots, beating Persia s record by a full knot. Scotia is generally credited with retaining the Blue Riband until 1872 when ... steamer SS City of Paris 1866 City of Paris of the Inman Line with a Blue Riband voyage in 1866, Scotia is universally considered as the equal of any pre Oceanic liner. ref name gibbs However, Scotia ... s coal consumption was half of Scotia s while China carried more cargo and was only a knot slower. The firm ... York express service. Scotia herself remained as Cunard s largest unit until Bothnia and Scythia were completed in 1874. The conversion of the French Line s Ville Du Harve to screws in 1873 left Scotia ... name gibbs Three years later, Scotia was converted to twin screws and refitted as a cable layer. She ... name kludas In 1896, Scotia suffered an explosion off Plymouth that destroyed her fore part. She was only saved by the stoutness of her construction. ref name gibbs Repaired, Scotia was sold in 1902 to the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. ref name kludas On March 11, 1904, Scotia approached Guam ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Scotia, Nebraska settlement type Village United States Village nickname motto Images image skyline Scotia chalk building from NW 2.JPG imagesize 250px image caption The Chalk Building in downtown Scotia was constructed from locally quarried chalk rock. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places . image flag image seal Maps image map Greeley County Nebraska Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Scotia Highlighted.svg mapsize 250px map caption Location of Scotia, Nebraska image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name United States subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 Nebraska subdivision type2 List of counties in Nebraska County subdivision name2 Greeley County, Nebraska Greeley government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 0.9 area land km2 0.9 area water km2 0.0 area total sq mi 0.3 area land sq mi 0.3 area water sq mi 0.0 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total 308 population density km2 343.3 population density sq mi 889.0 General information timezone North American Central Time Zone Central CST utc offset 6 timezone DST CDT utc ... Geographic Names Information System GNIS feature ID blank1 info 0833310 GR 3 website footnotes Scotia ... was 308 at the 2000 United States Census 2000 census . Geography Scotia is located at coord 41 28 ... has a total area of 0.3 square miles 0.9 km , all of it land. Scotia is located on Nebraska Highway 22 Scotia Avenue . Demographics As of the census GR 2 of 2000, there were 308 people ..., Nebraska Category Villages in Nebraska ca Scotia Nebraska ht Scotia, Nebraska nl Scotia Nebraska pt Scotia Nebraska vo Scotia Nebraska ... more details
Infobox Place Ireland name Scotia s Grave pin coords left 75px top 49px irish grid Q8309 province Munster county County Kerry population 0 Scotia s Grave or Scota s grave is an area just south of Tralee in County Kerry beside the Finglas rivulet in an area known as Trughanacmy. It marks what is reputed to be the grave of Scota , a daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh known as Friel ref Maeve Here Lies A Guide to Irish Graves Poolbeg, 1997 ISBN 1853717134 p. 156 ref The traditional name of the location is Glenn Scoithin, vale of the little flower . Scoithin here may be a diminutive of Scota, and the t being aspirated, it may prove that the name Sgota meant, as heretofor suggested, not Scythian woman , but was the Irish language Gaelic synonym for Rosa or Flora, usual names of women. ref Keating, Geoffrey John O Mahony Michael Doheny Foras feasa ar Eirinn do reir an athar seathrun ceiting, ollamh re diadhachta. The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the English invasion P.M. Haverty, New York, 1857 p.202 http books.google.co.uk books?id dE7pMtIozskC&pg RA1 PA202&dq Glenn Scoithin&num 100&ei iGB6SJ67OoegiwGbrImNDA&client firefox a ref Image Scotias Grave OS.jpeg thumb 200px right Marked Extract from O.S. map of 1986 According to several references in medieval Irish mythology Scotia, wife of the former Milesius and mother of six sons, was killed in battle with the legendary Tuatha D Danann on the nearby Slieve Mish mountain. Scotia had come to Ireland in 1,700BC, ref Barrington T J Discovering Kerry, Blackwater Press, Dublin, ISBN 0 905471 00 8, 1976 ref to avenge the death of her husband, the King who had been wounded in a previous ambush in south Kerry. She was an accomplished Equestrianism horsewoman , but, while pregnant, attempted to jump a bank that would not normally have presented a problem. However, the extra mass of her pregnancy caused her to fall and die. See also Scotia References reflist Category Geography of County Kerry Category Visitor attractions ... more details
Scotia Mocatta is the global bullion banking division of Scotiabank The Bank of Nova Scotia . Business Scotia Mocatta is one of the ten market making members of the London Bullion Market Association . Additionally it is one of 5 banks to participate in the London gold fixing . It has a history of 340 years, and is the only original member of the London Gold and Silver Fixes to maintain its seats on both respectively. History Scotia Mocatta was formed by Scotiabank s acquisition of Mocatta Bullion from Standard Chartered Bank in 1997, which had in turn acquired it from Hambros Bank in 1973. The company dates to Moses Mocatta s founding of a London bullion bank in 1671. Mocatta first sent silver to India in 1676, and the firm served as a broker to the Bank of England and the East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries. The firm was renamed Mocatta & Goldsmid with the addition of Asher Goldsmid in 1783. The firm was solely controlled by the Mocatta and Goldsmid family Goldsmid families for 286 years before it merged with Hambros Bank in 1957. Subsequent to 1957, the firm was managed by Edward Mocatta , with involvement and shareholdings variously from Hambros Bank , Standard Chartered Bank , Henry Jarecki , Standard Chartered Bank , Scotiabank , the Mocatta family and others. With Peter Hambro as Deputy Managing Director and Henry Jarecki as Chairman, the firm pioneered options and futures trading in precious metals and pursued leading bullion deals in Russia , the United States , South America , Switzerland , Mexico , Germany , China , Hungary , Australia , Japan and South Africa , and became the largest gold and silver counter party to the Soviet Union . The Mocatta firm has historically acted for central banks , notably the Bank of England and the United States Treasury ... by the Hunt brothers to corner the silver market. Offices Scotia Mocatta has offices in London , Hong ... cite web url http info.goldavenue.com info site in who in who scotia.html title Scotia Mocatta work ... more details
The Justiciar of Scotia in Norman French Norman Medieval Latin Latin , Justiciarus Scotie was the most senior Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages legal office in the Scotland in the High Middle Ages High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland . Scotia meaning Scotland in this context refers to Scotland to the north of the River Forth and River Clyde . The institution has some Anglo Norman origins, but in Scotland north of the Forth it represented some form of continuity with an older office, a senior version of a Judex , a native Scottish lawman often with province wide responsibilities. Mormaer Causant n, Earl of Fife Causant n of Fife was styled judex magnus i.e. great Brehon in Scotia, and it is probable that the Justiciarship of Scotia was just a further Latinisation Normanisation of that position. By the middle of the thirteenth century, the responsibilities of the Justiciar became fully formalised. He supervised the activity and behaviour of royal sheriffs and sergeants, held courts and reported on these things to the king personally. List of Justiciars of Scotia, to 1328 The following list, going up to 1328, consists of names who appears as Justiciar of Scotia in sources. The sources, especially in the twelfth century, are far from exhaustive, and so many names are doubtless missing. Note also that, in the earliest period, there could be more than one Justiciar in operation at the same point in time. Causant n, Earl of Fife Causant n, Mormaer of Fife , judex magnus in Scotia , 1128x30 Donnchad II, Earl of Fife Donnchad II, Mormaer of Fife , 1154x1164 1203 Matthew, Bishop of Aberdeen , 1172x1199 Gille Brigte, Earl of Strathearn Gille Brigte, Mormaer of Strathearn , 1172x1199 William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan William Comyn, Earl of Buchan , 1205 32 Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland Walter fitz Alan, High Steward , 1232 41 Philip de Melville and Robert de Monte Alto, 1241 44 Alan Durward Alan Durward, Royal Hostarius , 1244 51 Philip de ... more details
Scotia was a village in Patton Township, Pennsylvania Patton Township , Centre County, Pennsylvania Centre County , Pennsylvania , at coord 40 47 59 N 77 56 46 W region US type city display inline,title . Although the community was called Scotia, the name of the local post office was Benore Ben being the Gaelic language Gaelic for mountain of . It got its start when Andrew Carnegie , through the Edgar Thompson Steel Company , leased large tracts of iron ore in the township. Small scale mining had taken place here since the late 18th century, but Carnegie organized a major effort to exploit the deposits in 1880. Ore was removed from a broad open pit, washed to separate it from clay, and loaded onto railcars. The Pennsylvania Railroad had extended its Fairbrook Branch to the village in 1881, and hauled the ore to steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh . There was also an extensive narrow gauge railroad in the pits to haul ore to the washer, and several artesian wells and a reservoir to supply water for ore washing. ref name williams cite book title The Story of Scotia last Williams first Harry M. editor Betty F. Johnson year 1992 publisher Centre County Historical Society ref Carnegie sold the ore deposits to the Bellefonte Furnace Company in 1899, feeling that they were no longer economical to work and ship to Pittsburgh. Immediately after the sale, the Bellefonte Central Railroad built a new branch from Graysdale, Pennsylvania Graysdale to Scotia, allowing the ore to be shipped directly to the company s furnaces rather than take a roundabout route on the PRR. However, mining halted in about 1913, and all the assets of the Bellefonte Furnace Company were sold at foreclosure in 1914. ref name williams The Bellefonte Central abandoned its line to Scotia in 1915 ... mining at Scotia during World War II , and the Bellefonte Central received Reconstruction Finance Corporation money to built a new branch from Alto to Scotia to serve the new facilities. However, the mine ... more details
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