Atlantic Canada Totally Explained

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Atlantic Canada, also known as the Atlantic provinces, is the region of Canada comprising four provinces located on the Atlantic coast: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island – and Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the Atlantic provinces was 2,332,535 in 2007(External Link

History of the term

The first premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, coined the term Atlantic Canada when Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949. He believed it would be presumptuous for Newfoundland and Labrador 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. The three maritime provinces joined Confederation in the nineteenth century: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867 and Prince Edward Island in 1873.
Occasionally, the Maritimes is used as a synonym for the Atlantic provinces, but this usage is considered incorrect as the former generally excludes Newfoundland and Labrador.

Communities

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Community	Province	Population (2006)
Halifax	Nova Scotia	372,858
St. John's	Newfoundland and Labrador	181,113
Moncton	New Brunswick	126,424
Saint John	New Brunswick	122,389
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (Sydney Metro Area)	Nova Scotia	105,928
Fredericton	New Brunswick	85,688
Charlottetown	Prince Edward Island	58,625
Truro	Nova Scotia	45,077
New Glasgow	Nova Scotia	36,288
Bathurst	New Brunswick	31,424
Corner Brook	Newfoundland and Labrador	26,623
Kentville	Nova Scotia	25,969
Miramichi	New Brunswick	24,737
Edmundston	New Brunswick	21,442
Summerside	Prince Edward Island	16,153

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