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.

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

Several Portuguese explorers / cartographers have also documented various parts of the Maritimes, namely Diogo Homem.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

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

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.

It also influenced the thought behind the Antigonish Movement, which implemented cooperatives and other measures to aid the poor in the Canadian Maritimes.

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 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

The delegates from the Maritimes also raised an issue with respect to the level of government — federal or provincial — that would be given the powers not otherwise specifically defined.

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.

Most of the Maritimes were convinced that a wider union including the Province of Canada would also be beneficial to them ; Prince Edward Island was unsure, however, and very much against confederation.

The original intention was to recruit the unit primarily from the Maritimes, with companies also being raised in Ontario and western Canada.

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 addition to Compass, CBCT also co-produces and simulcasts pan-regional newscasts for the Maritimes.

His songs have also appeared in feature films including Canvas, which starred Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano (“ Mademoiselle Voulez Vous Danser ”, recorded by Jimmy Buffett ), Conquest, which starred Lothaire Bluteau ( theme song ), Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes ( feature ), and The Bellinger ( sound track ).

Irving also started MITV ( Maritime Independent Television ) as a competitor across the Maritimes with the ATV network.

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.

Global Maritimes also had a 5: 30 p. m. newscast called the Early News, but was cancelled as of early 2007 to make way for a full hour late-night newscast.

Communication with Europe was maintained by steamers of the Messageries Maritimes and the Havraise companies, and also with Mauritius, and thence to Sri Lanka, by the British Union-Castle Line.

However, in recent years, and particularly since 2008, Atlantic Superstore in the Maritimes and Dominion in Newfoundland and Labrador, both also owned by Loblaw, have adopted similar store formats and a similar marketing approach to RCSS.

Messer also began to make personal appearances throughout the Maritimes and New England using a smaller group named the " Backwoods Breakdown ".

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.

Several scholars have explored the so-called " golden age " of the Maritimes in the years just before Confederation.

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.

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

Since the mid-1950s, relations between the Cajuns of the U. S. Gulf Coast and Acadians in the Maritimes and New England have been renewed, forming an Acadian identity common to Louisiana, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.

Concerts dedicated to his music have been broadcast by CBC Toronto, Halifax, Moncton, ATV and CBCTV Maritimes, DT-Danish National Radio and Radio France / France Musiques.

A tour of the Maritimes was organized, and while it may have benefited the organizer, Cyr gained no profit financially.

Flatland skim scenes have developed in places such as North America ( Outer Banks, New Jersey, Washington, British Columbia, Ontario, Delaware, California, Florida, Utah, Texas, The Great Lakes and the Maritimes ) Australia ( Melbourne and Parramatta ), Wellington NZ.

The Canadian business elite outside of the Maritimes haven't been nearly as enamoured with the river as Americans, although several prominent Toronto families including the Eatons did have a presence.

Several informal suggestions over the years ( mainly by journalists ) have included " Acadia ", " New Acadia ", " The Maritimes ", etc.

In terms of driving distance, a fixed link would not be favourable for residents of the Maritimes or parts of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as they would have to drive to Quebec City where bridges cross the St. Lawrence River ( there are ferries further downstream ), before continuing east along Quebec's Côte-Nord ( of the Gulf of St. Lawrence ).

As white Loyalists fled the new American Republic, they took with them about 2000 black slaves: 1200 to the Maritimes ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island ), 300 to Lower Canada ( Quebec ), and 500 to Upper Canada ( Ontario ).

East and North Preston are well known across the Maritimes and together are the largest indigenous black community in Canada.

Other black powder plants were acquired in Quebec and the Maritimes and, in 1890, the company opened the first explosives plant in the far west, near Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Given the geographic diversity of the various sub-regions within the Maritimes, policies to centralize the population and economy were not initially successful, thus Maritime factories closed while those in Ontario and Quebec prospered.

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

The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

As a result of history and geography, the CPR served larger population centres in the southern Prairies, while the CNR's merged system served as a de-facto government colonization railway to serve remote and underdeveloped regions of Western Canada, northern Ontario and Quebec, and the Maritimes.

After the departure of the Thirteen American Colonies from British North America, there was an increase in population within the Canadas, divided in 1791 into Upper Canada ( now called Ontario ) and Lower Canada ( now called Quebec ), including most of the previously populated areas of the New France colony, and within the Maritimes, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.

In the Maritimes its only location is a disjunct population in southern Nova Scotia.