Following the northerly retreat of glaciers at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation over ten thousand years ago, human settlement by Native Americans or First Nations began in the Maritimes with Paleo-Indians during the Early Period, ending around six thousand years ago.

Historian Kris Inwood places the date very early, at least in Nova Scotia, finding clear signs that the Maritimes " Golden Age " of the mid-nineteenth century was over by 1870, before Confederation or the National Policy could have had any significant impact.

The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

This level of representation was established at the time of Confederation when the Maritimes had a much larger proportion of the national population.

** 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 Magdalen Islands Airport at Havre-aux-Maisons offers scheduled air service to the Maritimes and mainland Quebec.

His grave in " le cimetière du vieux château " at Menton in Alpes Maritimes

His grave in " le cimetière du vieux château " at Menton in Alpes Maritimes was rediscovered by Ross McWhirter in 1958 and has since been renovated by the French Rugby Federation.

In 1958, long after the legend of William Webb Ellis had become engrained in rugby culture, Ross McWhirter managed to rediscover his grave in " le cimetière du vieux château " at Menton in Alpes Maritimes ( it has since been renovated by the French Rugby Federation ).

Bouman first introduced baroque improvisation into his recital in 1993 at the Festival Domaine Forget in Quebec at the request of Radio Canada and his baroque compositions in a broadcast by CBCTV ' Compass ' in Maritimes Canada in 1994.

In early 2006, Graham set out on a tour of the northeast United States, Washington, D. C. and the Maritimes to promote New Brunswick as an " energy hub " and his idea of building a second reactor at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station.

The ICR was a pervasive and ubiquitous presence in the Maritimes, with the company employing thousands of workers, purchasing millions of dollars in services, coal, and other local products annually, operating ferries to Cape Breton Island at the Strait of Canso, and carrying the Royal Mail.

* Yvonne Colbert-co-anchor of Atlantic Pulse ( later at CTV Atlantic, currently senior weekend news producer for CBC Television in the Maritimes )

Thus the Government of Canada came to inherit the PEIR in 1874 at the same time as construction was progressing on the Intercolonial Railway ( IRC ), which would link the strategic winter ports of the Canadian Maritimes with Central Canada.

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 5: 30 p. m. portion was titled CBC News: Maritimes at 5: 30, and was also seen on Prince Edward Island on CBCT.

In January 2010, CBC News: Maritimes at 5: 30 was cancelled, replaced with an extra half hour of the provincial newscasts on CBAT and CBCT.

There, a gas liquids separation plant operates which sends gas liquids on a pipeline to a plant at Point Tupper and the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline carries the pure natural gas westward to markets in the Maritimes and New England.

The newscast airs live at 10PM Eastern Time ( 11PM in the Maritimes, 11: 30PM in Newfoundland ) on Radio-Canada stations in Ontario and east, and on tape delay at 10PM local in the western provinces.

These large stations are located at strategic locations throughout New England, the Maritimes, Quebec and Newfoundland.

* Amy Smith ( Halifax at 5: 30, Maritimes at 11 )

* Preston Mulligan ( Maritimes at 11 Sunday )

Global National initially aired in different time slots across the country: 5: 30 pm in British Columbia ; 6: 00 pm in Manitoba and Saskatchewan ; 6: 30pm in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec ; and 11: 15 pm in the Maritimes.

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.

On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Maritimes airs the Evening News at 6 p. m. and News Final at 11 p. m. All of these news programs are broadcast from their Halifax studios.

The main evening broadcast airs most nights at 10: 00 p. m. local time ( 11: 00 p. m. in the Maritimes ).

It aired every Saturday night on CBC Radio One ( 6: 30 p. m. for most of Canada, 7: 30 p. m. Maritimes, 8: 00 p. m.

* Elizabeth Chiu ( Maritimes Saturday )

For example Zeste broadcasts on stations in the Western provinces on Saturday early evenings, while Luc et Luc airs Sunday evenings in the Maritimes.

In addition, the station airs pan-regional Maritimes newscasts at 11pm on weeknights and Sundays and at 7pm on Saturdays, which also air in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subregion of Atlantic Canada, which also includes the northeastern province of Newfoundland & Labrador.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

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

The Maritimes are generally socially conservative but unlike Alberta, they also have fiscally socialist tendencies.

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.

Transport, including motor vehicles, highways, airports, and port authorities, are overseen by the Nigerien Ministry of Transport's Directorate for Land Water and Air Transport (" Ministère des Transport et de l ' aviation civile / Direction des Transports Terrestres, Maritimes et Fluviaux ").

Cajuns (; or les Acadiens, ) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U. S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles ( French-speakers from Acadia in what are now the Canadian Maritimes ).

On the other hand, the sports segments aired during local newscasts on Global Maritimes and Global Montreal are produced from Global BC's studio, presented by that station's sports anchors.

These Divisions are Quebec, Ontario, Western Provinces, and the Maritimes, each with 24 Senators, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, each with 1 Senator, and Newfoundland and Labrador has 6 Senators, making for a total of 105 Senators.

Fiddleheads are a traditional dish of northern New England ( especially Maine ) in the United States, and of Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes in Canada.

Ratings are " averaged " from those assigned by participating provincial film boards: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Maritimes ( New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ), Ontario and Saskatchewan ( whose ratings are determined by British Columbia ) and applied by the distributor to home video packaging.

The four teams are the Maritimes, Ontario, Québec and the West of Canada.

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.

In addition, a number of other areas of the world are known for the use of Celtic musical styles and techniques, including Newfoundland, and much of the folk music of Canada's Maritimes, especially on Cape Breton Island.

There are strong ties between traditional Québécois music and the music of Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and the Maritimes.

The francophones of the region are unique in Canada, tracing their origins to Continental French fishermen who settled in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and not to the Québécois, or Acadians of the Maritimes.