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Maritime Provinces

noun

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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... of Artaxerxes III. He threw in his lot with the Rhodian condottiere Mentor, and with his help succeeded in subjecting Egypt again to the Persian empire (probably 342 B.C.). Mentor became general of the maritime provinces, suppressed the rebels, and sent Greek mercenaries to the king, while Bagoas administered the upper satrapies and gained such power that he was the real master of the kingdom (Diod. xvi. 50; cf. Didymus, ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... on the Maritime Provinces is almost wholly taken from the Reverend Dr. T. Watson Smith's paper on Slavery in Canada in the Nova Scotia Historical Society's ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... island. At this moment there are three separate modes of itinerating through the island—viz., by mail-coach, by buggy, or by palanquin; to say nothing of the opportunities offered at intervals, along the maritime provinces, for coasting by ships or boats. To the botanist, the mineralogist, the naturalist, the sportsman, Ceylon offers almost a virgin Eldorado. To a man wishing to combine the lucrative pursuits of the colonist with ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

... the youth of America a knowledge of some of the winter sports of our neighbors of the maritime provinces, with their attendant pleasures, perils, successes, and reverses, the following tale has ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

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