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Definition of Canadian Maritime Provinces

1. Noun. The collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Canadian Maritime Provinces

Literary usage of Canadian Maritime Provinces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Manual of American Water-works by Moses Nelson Baker (1897)
"Canadian Maritime Provinces. Water-Works Completed, In Procesa of Construction or Projected. In New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. ..."

2. Climatology and mineral waters of the United States by Agrippa Nelson Bell (1885)
"The area of low pressure, which remained about central over New England and the Canadian maritime provinces during the past three mouths, which has now ..."

3. Monthly Weather Review by American Meteorological Society, United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States. Weather Bureau (1889)
"The lowest mean values for March, 1889, were, as in tjic preceding month, noted at stations in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. of the 2d, the succeeding ..."

4. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1891)
"... favorably situated, so varied and abundant in the products of the seas, the mines, the forests and the fields, as are the Canadian maritime provinces. ..."

5. History of Commerce and Industry by Cheesman Abiah Herrick (1917)
"The contest for the control of the Canadian Maritime Provinces was natural, for these settlements lay alongside the trade routes across the North Atlantic, ..."

6. Guide to the Materials in London Archives for the History of the United by Charles Oscar Paullin, Frederic Logan Paxson (1914)
"... with trade relations between Maine and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; question of more ports of entry in the Canadian maritime provinces. ..."

7. The Quarterly Register of Current History by Alfred S Johnson (1892)
"One- eighth of the total exports from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, goes to the Spanish West Indies; and, by the treaty of 1886 between Great Britain and ..."

8. The United States as a World Power by Archibald Cary Coolidge (1908)
"There had already been more than one contest between them, in the course of which France had lost what are to-day the Canadian maritime provinces. ..."

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