DCHP-1 Online
Atlantic Provinces 
1 Hist. the Provinces of British North America in the Atlantic area.
- 1855 To some persons, it may seem as absurd thus to connect the Atlantic Provinces with British Oregon . . . as to connect them . . . with New Zealand.
2 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and, after joining Canada in 1949, Newfoundland.
- 1869 I readily acknowledge that I am a firm believer in the benefit of the great scheme of Union, as applied to the Atlantic Provinces. . . .
- 1955 [They] will make a summer tour of Eastern Canada to include concerts in all four Atlantic provinces.
- 1964 . . . the Atlantic provinces have been trapped in a backwater of history. . . .
- 1855 To some persons, it may seem as absurd thus to connect the Atlantic Provinces with British Oregon . . . as to connect them . . . with New Zealand.