Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the Atlantic provinces was 2,346,286 as of July 2010.[1]

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History

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 shared by New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. The three Maritime provinces joined Confederation in the nineteenth century: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867 and Prince Edward Island in 1873.

Communities

2010 figures for census metropolitan areas in Atlantic Canada. The list includes communities above 15,000, by population/metro area:[2]

Community Province Population
Halifax Nova Scotia 403,188
St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador 192,326
Moncton New Brunswick 129,346
Saint John New Brunswick 130,400
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (Sydney Metro Area) Nova Scotia 106,025
Fredericton New Brunswick 85,850
Charlottetown Prince Edward Island 58,625
Truro Nova Scotia 45,100
New Glasgow Nova Scotia 36,300
Bathurst New Brunswick 31,450
Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador 26,725
Kentville Nova Scotia 26,045
Miramichi New Brunswick 25,075
Edmundston New Brunswick 21,585
Summerside Prince Edward Island 16,210

See also

References

  1. ^ Statistics Canada
  2. ^ "Population of census metropolitan areas (2006 Census boundaries)". Statistics Canada. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-214-x/2009000/t013-eng.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-04. 

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