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Originally Posted by lio45
There are coastal fishing villages in the Lower North Shore that are way east of Halifax, yet they're not the "East Coast" of Canada due to being in Quebec according to some definitions (which I always found completely nonsensical, for the record).
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I think what it boils down to is that only NS and NL
truly border on the Atlantic Ocean.
NB borders on the Bay of Fundy, Northumberland Strait, Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Baie des Chaleurs.
Quebec has the Saint Lawrence estuary, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Baie des Chaleurs.
For these reasons both QC and NB aren't truly "Maritime".
Curiously though, PEI gets a pass on this. It's boundaries are the Northumberland Strait and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with no true Atlantic Frontier. Despite this, PEI is universally perceived as being "Maritime". I suppose this is because PEI is an island.........