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

Q. What about the problem of an independent Quebec separating the Maritime Provinces from the rest of Canada?

From Time Magazine Archive

Power of appointing governors transferred from the Education Society to the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces, 1851.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various