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

The storm should move through quickly and be off the coast of New England later in the day, perhaps making landfall in Canada's maritime provinces as a tropical storm, he said.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2014

Prohibition does not exist in Canada, outside of some of its maritime provinces and Ontario, which, however, does not lack 4% beer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Germany could easily march through flat Denmark, might with difficulty cross the Danish islands and make a landing near Malmo, would then have no trouble advancing through Sweden's flat maritime provinces.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night last month the managing editor of the Boston Herald got a longdistance call from Reporter Alan Frazer, speaking from one of the Canadian maritime provinces.

From Time Magazine Archive

Add to this the superiority of the maritime provinces, with scarcely any exception, in point of climate, civilization, and attractions of every sort.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong