The Maritimes front the Atlantic Ocean and its various sub-basins such as the Gulf of Maine and Gulf of St. Lawrence systems.

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.

The Liberal Party of Canada has done well in the Maritimes in the past because of its interventionist policies.

The Maritimes, with its much smaller proportion of the national population ( compared to the time of Confederation ) also have an over-representation in the Senate, particularly compared to the population growth of Ontario and the western provinces.

The city has gained the nickname " Hub City " because of its central location and also because Moncton has historically been the railway and land transportation hub for the Maritimes.

The fallout of the war was that Britain lost all of its continental naval bases between the Maritimes and Spanish Florida, ultimately the West Indies.

In addition to serving as a naval base and coalling station for its North America & West Indies Squadron, the Royal Navy developed Bermuda as its only dockyard between the Canadian Maritimes and the West Indies where major repairs to large vessels could be made.

Other acquisitions followed, including Atlantic Wholesalers in the Maritimes with its associated retail outlets.

The Gaspé ( Gaspésie in French ) peninsula borders on the Maritimes and shares its marine culture.

Following its demise in 1918, the ICR trackage and facilities formed the majority of CNR's Maritimes operations and CN ( acronym abbreviated post-1960 ) maintained Moncton as its principal regional headquarters well into the 1980s.

Large amounts of rolling stock were lettered for the CGR, although in many regions, such as the Maritimes, the public continued to refer to its trains and facilities by their old name of the Intercolonial.

It is a largely rural and fairly conservative riding, but its conservatism is in the Red Tory tradition of the rest of the Maritimes, i. e., there is a strong concern for social programs.

However, the CRTC was more lenient with private affiliates that were owned partially or fully by British interests, such as the CTV affiliates ( and partial stake in CTV itself, since CTV was a cooperative owned by its stations at the time ) in Montreal, Ottawa, and the Maritimes -- or had much lower shares of American ownership ( such as CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario and CKMI-TV in Quebec City ) though those stations went to all-Canadian ownership.

The Maritimes ' struggle to maintain its independence from Canada, led some Maritimers to be sympathetic to the South's desire to maintain its independence from the North.

Through its Emera Energy division, Emera owns Brunswick Pipeline, a company which is currently planning construction of a natural gas pipeline across southern New Brunswick, and 12. 9 % of the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline, a natural gas transport company in the Maritimes and northern New England.

Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Atlantic regional system in the Canadian Maritimes and its studios are located at Halifax and George Streets in Moncton.

Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Atlantic regional system in the Canadian Maritimes and its master control facilities are based with CKCW-TV on Halifax and George Streets in Moncton.

Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Atlantic regional system in the Canadian Maritimes and its studios are located on George Street / Trunk 22 in Sydney.

BeaverbrookIn its early days, Chatham resembled the Calgary of today far more than the contemporary quiet towns of the Maritimes.

Over several years, CanWest Global attempted to use The Daily News to bolster its news team at its Global Maritimes TV station, however this ended on August 9, 2002 when the paper was sold to GTC Transcontinental Inc., along with other former Southam properties in eastern and western Canada.

The Maritimes are the only provinces in Canada which entered Confederation in the 19th century and have kept their original colonial boundaries.

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

The Progressives received significant support in the Maritimes provinces as well, but only one seat in New Brunswick.

Rogers Broadcasting operates 51 Canadian radio stations ( Rogers Radio ), ( 36 FM and 10 AM radio stations ) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005 ; Omni Television, which operates two multicultural television stations in Ontario ( OMNI. 1 and OMNI. 2 ) as well as one in Vancouver ( Channel M ) acquired in April 2008 ; Citytv acquired in 2007 ; which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver ; Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada ; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service and The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40 % stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A & E Television Networks ' 20 % ownership.

It is the only francophone university in New Brunswick and is one of only two such universities in the Maritimes, the other being the Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l ' Église, Nova Scotia.

The Maritimes joined only because of promises to build the Intercolonial Railway, and British Columbia only because of a promise to build a transcontinental railway.

The Maritimes joined largely because of promises to build the Intercolonial Railway, and British Columbia only because of a promise to build a transcontinental railroad.

Global Maritimes airs two local newscasts a day from their Halifax studios: the flagship Evening News at 6 p. m .; and News Final, the region's only full hour local late-night newscast, at 11 p. m.

New Brunswick's legislature is the only officially bilingual assembly of the Maritimes.

Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. operates 54 Canadian radio stations, ( 45 FM and 9 AM radio stations ) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005 ; Omni Television, which operates five multicultural television stations ( two in Ontario, two in Alberta, and one in British Columbia ); Citytv ; which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver ; Rogers Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada ; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service, The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40 % stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A & E Television Networks ' 20 % ownership.

* Forum anciens Gendarmes Maritimes French only

As it was winter, the shipping season in the St. Lawrence River was closed leaving overland travel from British colonies in the Maritimes as the only option.

The American Indian four winds teachings may also have Christian cross teachings linked to Nestorian Missons or visitors to North America, as well as Irish Church monks and / or a Polish / Dane Colony before Columbus in the present location of the Maritimes of Canada and Northeastern U. S. Source: National Christian Association: nationalchristianassociation. bravehost. com

Because of Canada's location and sympathy for the Southern cause, Confederate operators secretly used Canada as a base, in violation of British neutrality, particularly in the Maritimes.

The Maritime provinces, also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

The question of why the Maritimes fell from being a centre of Canadian manufacturing to being an economic hinterland is thus a central one to the study of the region's pecuniary difficulties.

The cause of economic malaise in the Maritimes is an issue of great debate and controversy among historians, economists, and geographers.

The exact date that the Maritimes began to fall behind the rest of Canada is difficult to determine.

The Maritimes is currently represented in the Canadian Parliament by 25 Members of the House of Commons ( Nova Scotia-11, New Brunswick-10, Prince Edward Island-4 ) and 24 Senators ( Nova Scotia and New Brunswick-10 each, Prince Edward Island-4 ).

The Canadian Senate is structured along regional lines, giving an equal number of seats ( 24 ) to the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, and western Canada, in addition to the later entry of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the three territories.

After the passage of a cold front, winds tend to switch to the northwest, and a frequent pattern is for a long-lasting low-pressure area to form over the Canadian Maritimes, which may pull cold northwestern air across the Great Lakes for a week or more, commonly identified with the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO ).

Nice is the capital of the Alpes Maritimes département and the second biggest city of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur region after Marseille.

** Mute Swan, Cygnus olor, is a Eurasian species that occurs at lower latitudes than Whooper Swan and Bewick's Swan across Europe into southern Russia, China and the Russian Maritimes.

The Midewiwin ( also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin ) is the Grand Medicine Society of the indigenous groups of the Maritimes, New England and Great Lakes regions in North America.

Westmorland County is centrally located in the Maritimes and is New Brunswick's most populous county.

Clarke ’ s literary emphasis is on the perspectives of the African descendents in Canada and Nova Scotia, focusing on the African American slaves ’ descendents who settled in the East coast of Nova Scotia, whom he calls “ Africadian .” He writes that it is a word that he “ minted from “ Africa ” and “ Acadia ” ( the old name for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ), to denote the Black populations of the Maritimes and especially of Nova Scotia ”.

* January 31, 2011: Global Maritimes is re-added to the lineup.

The magazine is available on newsstands throughout Halifax and communities in the Maritimes.

* July 1-The Intercolonial Railway connecting central Canada to the Maritimes is completed

In Canada, it is typically seen in areas such as the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, the Maritimes, and Quebec.

In Canada, the ARES is coordinated overall by the Radio Amateurs of Canada ( RAC ) Field Services Organization which has eight ( 8 ) Sections: Alberta, British Columbia / Yukon, Manitoba, Maritimes ( consisting of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ), Newfoundland / Labrador, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan.

Rivière-du-Loup is a traditional stopping point between Quebec City, the Maritimes and the Gaspé Peninsula.