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Maritime Provinces   /mˈɛrətˌaɪm prˈɑvənsəz/   Listen
Maritime Provinces

noun
1.
The collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.  Synonyms: Canadian Maritime Provinces, Maritimes.






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"Maritime Provinces" Quotes from Famous Books



... Britain there are still unsettled questions, growing out of the local laws of the maritime provinces and the action of provincial authorities deemed to be in derogation of rights secured by treaty to American fishermen. The United States minister in London has been instructed to present a demand for $105,305.02 in view of the damages received ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... the outside world sounded like the Arabian Nights or some fairy-tale. The whole world took fire. Cariboo was on every man's lips, as were Transvaal {46} and Klondike half a century later. The New England States, Canada, the Maritime Provinces, the British Isles—all were set agog by the reports of the new gold-camps where it was only necessary to dig to find nuggets. By way of Panama, by way of San Francisco, by way of Spokane, by way of Victoria, by way of Winnipeg ...
— The Cariboo Trail - A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia • Agnes C. Laut

... them from their Anglo-Saxon brethren in Britain. The deputies to the general assemblies at Aurich could no longer undertake a journey grown so perilous. West Friesland became absorbed in Holland. East Friesland remained a federation of rude but self-governed maritime provinces, until the brief and bloody dominion of the Saxon dukes led to the establishment of Charles the Fifth's authority. Whatever the nominal sovereignty over them, this most republican tribe of Netherlanders, or of Europeans, had never accepted feudalism. There was an annual congress ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley



Words linked to "Maritime Provinces" :   Acadia, Canadian Maritime Provinces, geographical area, geographic region, geographical region, geographic area, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Canada



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