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n. The Atlantic provinces.
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Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and the easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the four Atlantic provinces in 2011 was about 2,300,000 on half a million km.
Usage examples of "atlantic canada".
But the best way to learn about the Clearances was to explore the empty lands, so we decided to drive out to the western Highlands, a stark and frequently desolate landscape, rugged in the forbidding way that parts of Atlantic Canada are.
Thanks also to travel companions on trips to Atlantic Canada: Tom Watkin, who battled wind, bears and mosquitoes.
Bottom line, eleven men were dead and eight months later they were trying to open the mine up again because the chance of ending up dead and abandoned, three hundred and fifty meters underground meant little against the systemic unemployment that was the norm in Atlantic Canada.