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Atlantic Canada, likewise referred to as a Atlantic Provinces, is the title given to the quartet Canadian provinces located on Canada's Atlantic coast. A provinces come:
Newfoundland and Labrador
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
A latter threesome come likewise known as a Maritime Provinces, or even Maritimes for short. A people of the Atlantic Provinces was Deuce.Three million inside 2004.
History of the term
A 1st premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, coined the term Atlantic Canada whenever Newfoundland joined Canada around 1949. He believed it would become assuming for Newfoundland to use that it may include itself in a existent term "Maritime Provinces", utilized to describe a ethnical similarities between Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Isl& and Up to date Brunswick.
At times a Maritimes is utilized as a equivalent word for the Atlantic Provinces, however this usage is considered wrong.
Cities
(by population/metro vicinity)
Halifax (Nova Scotia) – 359 183
St. John's (Newfoundland) – 172 918
Saint John (New Brunswick) – 122 678
Moncton (New Brunswick) – 117 727
Sydney (Nova Scotia) – 109 300
Fredericton (New Brunswick) – 78 950
Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island) – 58 358
Truro (Nova Scotia) – 44,276
Corner Brook (Newfoundland) – 20,103
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