1. The collective name for the Canadian Provinces of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

2.Where many of the inter-provincial Canadian immigrants are from.

3.A quiet, affordable, reasonably safe and naturally beautiful (if not boring) place to have a home and raise a family or take a vacation.

The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).

Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”

There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.

Maritimes - to the worthless deadbeat Ryan S McNamara - the Maritimes happens to be one of the FEW places in Canada where they happen to speak PROPER UK English. He says hick - most of the rest of Canada in comparison speaks the American English which as the rest of the world knows is the hick English. .... Maritimes can attribute themselves to the fact that their accent in particular is original & authentic. Basically they're not losers who want to be Americans, like a vast majority of Canadians, and speak PROPER English.

I agree with the other guy, Ryan, who shit all over this region! Because it IS a piece of shit place to live! Friendly people - my ass. I have lived successfully in every major city in Canada. Why the hell did I feel it necessary to come out east then? Fuck knows! The biggest mistake I ever made.