Atlantic Provinces


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Atlantic Provinces

The eastern Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Atlantic Provinces

pl n
(Placename) the Atlantic Provinces certain of the Canadian provinces with coasts facing the Gulf of St Lawrence or the Atlantic: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador
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Atlan′tic Prov′inces


n.pl.
the Canadian provinces bordering the Atlantic Ocean, comprising New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
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Amid start up of its 2 million ton/year Port-Daniel-Gascons mill in eastern Quebec, McInnis Cement has outlined an Atlantic provinces distribution plan anchored on the acquisition of two CRH Canada terminals serving New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Global Payments has signed referral agreements with Better Business Bureaus serving Mainland British Columbia, Southern Alberta and East Kootenay, Central and Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwest Ontario, Western Ontario, Eastern and Northern Ontario and the Outaouais and the Atlantic Provinces.
Nightingale currently provides its EMR solution to 4,000 physicians in Canada, mainly in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.
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More than 100 undergraduate and graduate chemistry students from the Atlantic provinces came together to learn about student research and to share their work.
Atlantic Lottery is publicly owned by the four Atlantic provinces. Its revenues exceeded USD1 billion in 2013-14, and its products range from draw games to sports wagering to online offerings.
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The 2013 Hardlines Retail Report shows the Atlantic Provinces all slipped last year in their home improvement sales, with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador, which was up 4.6 percent.
It would be 1955 before such institutions as the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council and the Atlantic Premier Conferences would be launched and the four provinces would "begin to act regionally in their efforts to alleviate underdevelopment" (18).

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