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The Maritime provinces, called the Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subgroup of the region called Atlantic Canada. The population of the Maritime provinces is close to 2 million. The Maritimes is home to Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people and has an extensive history of French and English settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.
The modern Province of Newfoundland and Labrador is often mistakenly identified as a Maritime province. It is properly part of Atlantic Canada (with the other three provinces) and thus referred to as an Atlantic province. Although it is located on the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence physically separates this province from the Maritimes. It also has a uniquely different history; the Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada eight decades after the three Maritime provinces. The four provinces of Atlantic Canada, sometimes combined with the two of Central Canada, are sometimes referred to as Eastern Canada.
There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead.
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