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Canadian Provinces

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	Government of Ontario Canada’s most populous province, between the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay (and also, as explained by a British historian in the late 19th century, “an American state of the northern type”).	513
	Government of Newfoundland and Labrador “The Rock” of the western North Atlantic was the last province to join Canada, in 1949. For a time before it was its own British dominion. The ancient cod fisheries are not what they used to be, but now offshore oil brightens the future.	767
	Government of New Brunswick Canada’s only officially bilingual province (as opposed to the federal government), of which the new Canadian ambassador to the United States was once the premier. Ancient home of both French-speaking Acadians and American Empire Loyalists.	554
	Government of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia’s capital city Halifax was once a bastion of the British Royal Navy in the North Altantic. The province at large remains a breeding ground of good manners, civil-society virtue, artistic and comedic talent, and the sporting life.	624
	Government of Saskatchewan Home of “the first socialist government in North America,” and the original inspiration for publicly funded health insurance across Canada. More or less the same old party is in office today, but not like it was then.	504
	Province of Manitoba Manitoba’s dominant city of Winnipeg gets quite cold in the winter, but it still remembers the days when someone from Ontario called it “the intellectual capital of Canada.” And Jennifer Lopez was recently in town to make a movie.	627
	Government of Alberta Canada’s oil-rich variation on the State of Texas down south — home of the Calgary Stampede and Chateau Lake Louise, birthplace of k.d.laing and the modern Canadian movement for Senate reform.	610
	Province of British Columbia Canada’s third most populous province, with a stunning Rocky mountain and Pacific seacoast geography. Also sometimes known as British California, the Wet Coast, or even the Left Coast (though not at the moment).	547
	Portail Québec ... votre portail gouvernemental de services Canada’s second most populous province, with a French-speaking majority, and the rugged St. Lawrence River running through it. You can just click on the button in the top right-hand corner to get the site in English too (or Spanish).	495
	Province of Prince Edward Island Canada’s geographically smallest and least populous province, also celebrated for potatoes, old-time virtues and community life, and the 1867 birthplace of the present Confederation, in the provincial capital city at Charlottetown.	539

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