14 Facts About The Maritimes

1.

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

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2.

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

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

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4.

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

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5.

The question of why the Maritimes fell from being a centre of Canadian manufacturing to being an economic hinterland is thus a central one to the study of the region's pecuniary difficulties.

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

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

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

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10.

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

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11.

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

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12.

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.

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13.

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

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14.

The Maritimes is currently represented in the Canadian Parliament by 25 Members of the House of Commons and 24 Senators .

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