The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maritime provinces \Maritime provinces\, Maritimes \Maritimes\prop. n. The Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Syn: Maritime Provinces.
Usage examples of "maritime provinces".
The sultan of Iconium was confined to his capital, the Barbarians were driven to the mountains, and the maritime provinces of Asia enjoyed the transient blessings of their deliverance.
Since Quebec went independent, the Maritime Provinces have been considering statehood.
And accordingly town after town rose, expelled the authorities appointed by Spain and the small Spanish garrisons, and in three months after the rising of Brill the greater part of the maritime provinces were free.
A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had died and left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces, according to their respective standings.
No European merchant has ever dared to undertake it in their name, how easy soever it might be for them to do it from their maritime provinces in the north.
Shekels, nobles and guineas, yes, the newest decades old, but there were ducats too, dollars and rupees and sandnotes and arcane bawbees, square coins, little ingots from maritime provinces, from Shankell, from Perrick Nigh and from cities Ori was not sure he believed in.
A TV audience that stretches from New Hampshire to the Maritime Provinces of Canada watches as Roger fusses nervously with the sleeves of his green jersey and the gray warm-up shirt he wears beneath it.