Atlantic Canada
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Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces, is the region of Eastern Canada comprising four provinces: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. As of 2
Viking migration to modern day Newfoundland
Painting shows romanticised view of United Empire Loyalists arriving in New Brunswick, ca. 1783
Rose Fortune, daughter of Fortune a free Negro, who immigrated to Nova Scotia as a child after the American Revolution.
The Maritimes
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The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The Maritimes had a population of
Atlantic Canada
…was popularized following the admission of Newfoundland as a Canadian province in 1949. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is not included in the Maritimes, another significant regional term, but is included in Atlantic Canada. The Atlantic Provinces are the historical territories of the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik…
The first permanent European settlement in the Maritimes was at Port Royal, in Nova Scotia.
St. John River Campaign: A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross (present day Arcadia, New Brunswick) by Thomas Davies in 1758. This is the only contemporaneous image of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
Charles Tupper