15 Facts About Canadian Maritimes

Canadian Maritimes, called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

The most significant incident from this war which occurred in the Canadian Maritimes was the British capture and detention of the American frigate USS Chesapeake in Halifax.

The Union navy, although much smaller than the British Royal Navy and no threat to the Canadian Maritimes, did posture off Maritime coasts at times chasing Confederate naval ships which sought repairs and reprovisioning in Maritime ports, especially Halifax.

In spite of its name, The Canadian Maritimes has a humid continental climate of the warm-summer subtype.

Canadian Maritimes were predominantly rural until recent decades, having resource-based economies of fishing, agriculture, forestry, and coal mining.

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Cause of economic malaise in the Canadian Maritimes is an issue of great debate and controversy among historians, economists, and geographers.

Exact date that the Canadian Maritimes began to fall behind the rest of Canada is difficult to determine.

David Alexander argues that any earlier declines were simply part of the global Long Depression, and that the Canadian Maritimes first fell behind the rest of Canada when the great boom period of the early 20th century had little effect on the region.

The Canadian Maritimes were connected to central Canada by the Intercolonial Railway in the 1870s, removing a longstanding barrier to trade.

Maritime trading patterns shifted considerably from mainly trading with New England, Britain, and the Caribbean, to being focused on commerce with the Canadian Maritimes interior, enforced by the federal government's tariff policies.

The Canadian Maritimes had long been a centre for shipbuilding, and this industry was hurt by the change.

Arguments have been made that the Canadian Maritimes' poverty was caused by control over policy by Central Canada which used the national structures for its own enrichment.

Each sub-region within the Canadian Maritimes has developed over time to exploit different resources and expertise.

Traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S A Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

Canadian Maritimes are the only provinces in Canada which entered Confederation in the 19th century and have kept their original colonial boundaries.