Atlantic Provinces

American  

plural noun

1. the Canadian provinces bordering the Atlantic Ocean, comprising New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Atlantic Provinces British  

plural noun

1. certain of the Canadian provinces with coasts facing the Gulf of St Lawrence or the Atlantic: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador

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Example Sentences

The Atlantic provinces have fallen on hard economic times, amplified by the collapse of offshore fishing stocks, and are regarded by some of their fellow Canadians as kind of a frozen Appalachia.

From Los Angeles Times

To understand the factors between varying incidence rates of melanoma in the Atlantic provinces of Canada, a group of researchers including Litvinov and Peláez conducted 23 focus groups.

From Science Daily

Recent climate disasters include Hurricane Fiona hitting the Atlantic provinces, an "atmospheric river" of rain that produced record-breaking floods in British Columbia and a 2021 heat dome, also in British Columbia, that caused hundreds of deaths.

From Reuters

The funds will be directed to people living in Nova Scotia and other Atlantic provinces, some of the hardest hit areas, for immediate and ongoing relief and recovery efforts as well as community preparedness initiatives.

From New York Times

Fiona, one of the worst storms to ever hit Canada, battered the Atlantic provinces over the weekend, sweeping homes into the sea, leaving at least three people dead.

From Reuters