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

The leader of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Monday vowed to stop collecting the federal carbon tax on homes heated with natural gas from 2024 if Ottawa does not expand an exemption announced last week for the Atlantic provinces.

From Reuters

The leader of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Monday vowed to stop collecting the federal carbon tax on homes heated with natural gas from 2024 if Ottawa does not expand an exemption announced last week for the Atlantic provinces.

From Reuters

The leader of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Monday vowed to stop collecting the federal carbon tax on homes heated with natural gas from 2024 if Ottawa does not expand an exemption announced last week for the Atlantic provinces.

From Reuters

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