Re: Meaning of "N.B." re: Scotland (governmental or territorial division?)

Alison Kilpatrick wrote:
Hello:

I've not been able to figure out what the abbreviation, "N.B.", means. I've seen it tied to placenames, e.g., "Stirling, N.B." and "Balbirnie, N.B.".

Having had no luck with Google-ing, could someone help me decipher this one, please?

Cheers,

Alison

p.s. I had thought these might be places in the province of New Brunswick, but have not found them there.
*** Some time after the 1745 rebellion, which was Scotland-based, the London government decided that it would be a good idea to refer to Scotland as "North Britain", and make the Scots more integrated. They instructed all government departments to henceforth use that term, and it persisted for a long time, despite the fact that what pissed off the Scots was the govt NOT calling England & Wales "South Britain".
The net result was that everyone around the world thought that England = Britain, and so the Scots agitated for a century or more until they got a devolved parliament in Edinburgh a few years back.
N.B. is now ancient history and almost entirely forgotten.
Gordon Johnson
Caithness.
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