Maritimes

The Maritimes — the Atlantic seaboard. Its culture was layered from the Acadian French (founded 1605, expelled by the British in 1755 and partly returned, mourned in 'Évangéline'), then Loyalist refugees and Highland Scots cleared from their glens — hence the Celtic fiddle, Gaelic place-names and lighthouse-and-lobster coast. Newfoundland, a separate British dominion that joined Canada only in 1949, keeps its own dialect, humour and cod-fishing memory. Once prosperous on ships and fish, the region's shared modern story is chronic out-migration to richer provinces.

• Existed: 1605 CE – present
• Type: Entity