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

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Maritime Provinces

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

There lay the Maritime Provinces of the U.S.S.R. and, inland, all of Siberia that a hungry Japan could swallow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Range.—Breeds in New England, New York and west along the northern tier of states, north into Maritime Provinces and Canada; winters from Gulf states southward.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman