The Maritimes
The Maritimes, or the Maritime Provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada with three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. They, along with Newfoundland and Labrador, form Atlantic Canada.
Some people have proposed merging all three provinces into a single province, called the Maritime Union.
England, Scotland, and France settled the area in the 17th century.[1] After the 18th-century French and Indian War, the British ruled the entire area.[2]
The Charlottetown Conference was held in 1864 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It had the various colonies of British North America decide to join and form the Canadian Confederation.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ James R. Csgood and Company, The Maritime Provinces; a handbook for travellers; a guide to the chief cities, coasts, and islands of the Maritme Provinces of Canada (Boston: Osgood, 1881), p. 92
- ↑ Daniel Judah Elazar, Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal Democracy (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998), p. 204
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