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The Maritimes or Maritime provinces are a region of Canada on the Atlantic coast, consisting of the three provinces New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The Maritimes are located northeast of New England, southeast of Quebec's Gaspé peninsula, and southwest of Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador is sometimes mistakenly included in the Maritimes, however it can only be called part of Atlantic Canada. Although it is located on the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence physically separates it from the Maritimes. It also has a uniquely different history, as the colony joined Canada eight decades after the three Maritime provinces.
There is occasional talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have a greater say in national affairs, however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the larger Canadian Confederation instead. So far this remains an idea and is not likely in the near future.
1 Society and culture
Maritime society is based upon a mixture of traditions and class backgrounds. Predominantly rural until recent decades, the region traces many of its cultural activities to those rural resource-based economies of fishing, farming, forestry, and coal mining.
While Maritimers are predominantly of west European heritage ( Scottish, IrishIrish can refer to multiple things: Things relating to Ireland or its culture, see also List of Ireland-related topics. The Irish ethnicity. The Irish language, the Goidelic Celtic language of Ireland. Hiberno-English, the English language as spoken by th, EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England, FrenchThe French are a Latin/ Celtic/ Germanic ethnic group primarily associated with France and the French language. There are around 60 million autochthonous French people in France. There are around 1. 38 million french speakers in Switzerland, as well as so (also called Acadians), immigration to industrial Cape Breton during the hey-day of coal mining and steel manufacturing brought people from eastern Europe. The Maritimes also has a blackBlack Canadian is a term used to identify a Canadian of predominantly, or at least partial, African descent. Historically the majority of those in Canada of African descent have been black, therefore the term is not typically used to apply to non-black pe population of Loyalistsee also Loyalist, Ontario In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be. Two main historical groups of individuals have been specifically called "Loyalists" in English. For Loyalists in the American Revolutionary War, see the ancestry, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia, but there are also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Cultural activities are fairly diverse throughout the region with music, theatre, and literatary art forms tending to follow the particular cultural heritage of specific locales. Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid- 1900sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Years: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 Events and Trends Technology Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first doc, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America. A fragment of Gaelic culture remains in Nova Scotia but primarily on Cape Breton Island.
A trend in Canada has witnessed a "Celtic revival" which saw many Maritime musicians and songs rise to prominence in recent decades. Some companies, particularly breweries such as Alexander Keith'sAlexander Keith's is a Canadian brewery founded in 1820 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Alexander Keith, who emigrated from Scotland in 1817, where it is still the only location of an Alexander Keith's brewery. Today, the brewery is under the control of Inter and Moosehead have played a connection between folklore with alcohol consumption during their marketing campaigns.
