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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



... the letter away with a frown. He was busy, in demand, ambitious. Born in one of the Maritime Provinces, he owed all he was to Ontario, and now—Ontario claimed him. Return he might some day to the rapid rivers, the lonely hills, the great forests and the remote villages, but not now. Now, just as he was beginning ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... the West over, and compared them one against another. The fishermen began to mingle with the crowd about the town-hall doors—blue-jowled Portuguese, their women bare-headed or shawled for the most part; clear-eyed Nova Scotians, and men of the Maritime Provinces; French, Italians, Swedes, and Danes, with outside crews of coasting schooners; and everywhere women in black, who saluted one another with gloomy pride, for this was their day of great days. And there were ministers of many creeds,—pastors of great, gilt-edged congregations, at the ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

... the meanest of their mariners was alike capable of handling an oar, of rearing a sail, or of conducting a vessel, and the Saxons rejoiced in the appearance of a tempest, which concealed their design, and dispersed the fleets of the enemy. After they had acquired an accurate knowledge of the maritime provinces of the West, they extended the scene of their depredations, and the most sequestered places had no reason to presume on their security. The Saxon boats drew so little water that they could easily proceed fourscore or a hundred ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon



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



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