Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada, also known as the Atlantic Provinces, is the name given to the four Canadian provinces located on Canada's Atlantic coast. The provinces are:

History of the term

The first premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, coined the term Atlantic Canada when Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949. He believed it would be presumptuous for Newfoundland to assume that it could include itself within the existing term "Maritime Provinces", used to describe the cultural similarities between Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

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Premier - Joey Smallwood - 1949

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Occasionally the Maritimes is used as a synonym for the Atlantic Provinces, but this usage is considered incorrect.

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