Maritimes

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1. Maritimes - Noun

2. Maritimes - Proper noun

Meaning

the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

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Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. Tommy Douglas

Although the Maritime leaders were swayed by the arguments of the Canadians, many ordinary residents of the Maritimes wanted no part of this larger confederation for fear that their interests and concerns would be ignored in a wider national union. Source: Internet

By 1870, 1/6 of all the people born in Canada had moved to the United States, with the highest concentrations in New England, which was the destination of Francophone emigrants from Quebec and Anglophone emigrants from the Maritimes. Source: Internet

Arguments have been made that the Maritimes' poverty was caused by control over policy by Central Canada which used the national structures for its own enrichment. Source: Internet

CBC meteorologist Jim Abraham said Isaias, which was downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting North Carolina, is keeping temperatures higher as it approaches the Maritimes, but it won't bring much in the way of a storm. Source: Internet

European contact The Maritimes were the second area in Canada to be settled by Europeans, after Newfoundland. Source: Internet

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