Maritime Provinces

American  

plural noun

1. the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.

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Maritime Provinces British  

plural noun

1. another name for the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, but often excluding Newfoundland and Labrador

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Maritime Provinces Cultural  

1. The collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Other Word Forms

• Maritimer
  noun

Example Sentences

Casting a shadow from Mazatlán, Mexico, to Canada’s Maritime Provinces, the eclipse is predicted to be among the most watched of all time.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

Seven years later, he was hired as an associate at MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, for decades the most prominent firm in eastern Canada’s Maritime Provinces.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2020

It will spend the summer primarily in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway on 10- to 14-night itineraries, before plying the Canadian Maritime Provinces and New England in the fall.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2014

Hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the fire and to argue about the object of their anger: Kenneth Colin Irving, the richest man, the biggest landholder and the most contentious entrepreneur in Canada's Maritime Provinces.

From Time Magazine Archive

The establishment of free trade between Canada and the Maritime Provinces would be some compensation for the loss of trade with the United States, should the reciprocity treaty be abrogated.

From George Brown by Lewis, John