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Humans have been present in the Canadian Maritime provinces for 10,600 years. In spite of being the first part of Canada to be settled by Europeans, research into the prehistory of the Maritimes did not become extensive until 1969. By the early 1980s, several full-time archaeologists focused on the region. [1]
The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The Maritimes had a population of 1,899,324 in 2021, which makes up 5.1% of Canada's population. [ 1 ]
CTV Atlantic (formerly known as the Atlantic Television System, or ATV) is a system of four television stations in the Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media. Despite the name, it is not available on basic cable or analog in Newfoundland and Labrador even though that province is part of Atlantic ...
While American television stations, including affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS, near the Canada–US border were available for several years prior, and gained a sizeable audience in cities like Toronto, within range of U.S. signals, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was the first entity to broadcast television programming within Canada, launching in September 1952 in both Montreal and ...
Category: Maritime history of Canada. ... Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916; Battle of Blomindon; Capture of USS Hancock; Charles Mary Wentworth (1798 ship)
Pacificanada was the NFB's third documentary television series on the regions of Canada, following Adieu Alouette on Quebec, then West, about the Canadian Prairies. [ 1 ] Originally, the NFB wanted to make a combined series on B.C. and the Maritimes , to be called Coastal Peoples , but instead, the west and east coasts were explored ...
From Coast to Coast: A Personal History of Radio in Canada (CBC Enterprises, 1985) Troyer, Warner. The sound and the fury: An anecdotal history of Canadian broadcasting (1980) Varga, Darrell. Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada (2009) online; Vipond, Mary. Listening In: The First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting 1922-1932.
The history of Nova Scotia covers a period from thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day Nova Scotia (also historically referred to as Mi'kma'ki and Acadia ) were inhabited by the Mi'kmaq people .