"Nova Scotia (""""New Scotland"""", pronounced /?no?v? ?sko???/, French: Nouvelle-?osse, Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province of the four in Atlantic Canada.Located almost exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole (44 39' N Longitude), its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and some 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727,making Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province in Canada. Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets provides investment banking services to communications, media, technology, consumer products, real estate, forest products, infrastructure, industrial products, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placement, negotiation assistance, due diligence, and restructuring services. Additionally, it provides research, equity sales and trading, foreign exchange management, merchant banking, short-term funding, investment research, and structured leasing services. The firm was formerly known as Scotia Capital Inc. and changed its name to Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets in January, 2012. Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets was founded in 1999 and is headquartered Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Halifax, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver, Canada, Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Dublin, Ireland, London, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Scotiabank Global Banking and Market operates as a subsidiary of The Bank of Nova Scotia."