Editing Atlantic Canada (section)

=== Immigration ===
In the last half of the 19th century the region's population grew due to the immigration from Ireland due to the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|great potato famine]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Willeen |first=Keough |title=The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Irish in Atlantic Canada: 1780-1900 |date=1991 |publisher=New Ireland Press |isbn=978-0-920483-18-3 |editor-last=Power |editor-first=Thomas P. |location=Fredericton}}</ref> [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]] and [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], both port cities, particularly received a significant influx of Irish immigrants within the region,<ref>{{cite web |last1=McGowan |first1=Mark G. |title=Overview: Irish Migration and Settlement in Canada |url=https://www.ireland.ie/en/canada/ottawa/news-and-events/news-archive/overview-irish-migration-and-settlement-in-canada/ |website=[[Embassy of Ireland, Ottawa]] |access-date=October 8, 2024 |language=en |date=July 31, 2023}}</ref> with Saint John's quarantine station on [[Partridge Island (Saint John County)|Partridge Island]] being the second-busiest in British North America during the [[epidemic typhus]] outbreak.<ref>{{cite web |last1=James-Abra |first1=Erin |title=Partridge Island |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/partridge-island |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |access-date=October 8, 2024 |language=en |date=February 7, 2006}}</ref>

The first [[Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador|premier of Newfoundland]], [[Joey Smallwood]], coined the term "Atlantic Canada" when the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]] joined Canada in 1949.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Slumkoski |first=Corey |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttxrc |title=Inventing Atlantic Canada: Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry into Canadian Confederation |date=2011 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4426-1158-0 |jstor=10.3138/j.ctt2ttxrc }}</ref> He believed that it would have been presumptuous for Newfoundland to assume that it could include itself within the existing term "[[The Maritimes|Maritime provinces]]," which was used to describe the cultural similarities shared by [[New Brunswick]], [[Prince Edward Island]], and [[Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Overton |first=James |date=2000 |title=Sparking A Cultural Revolution: Joey Smallwood, Farley Mowat, Harold Horwood and Newfoundland's Cultural Renaissance |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/nflds/2000-v16-n2-nflds_16_2/nflds16_2art04/ |journal=Newfoundland Studies |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=166–204 |issn=1198-8614}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lowenthal |first=David |date=2017 |title=Canadian Historical Nonchalance and Newfoundland Exceptionalism |url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/acadiensis/2017-v46-n1-acad_46_1/acad46_1pp02/ |journal=Acadiensis |language=en |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=152–162 |issn=0044-5851}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Citation |last=Buckner |first=Phillip |title=The Maritimes and the Debate Over Confederation |date=2018-11-30 |work=Reconsidering Confederation |pages=101–143 |editor-last=Heidt |editor-first=Daniel |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781773850177-007/html |access-date=2024-10-05 |publisher=University of Calgary Press |doi=10.1515/9781773850177-007 |isbn=978-1-77385-017-7}}</ref> The other provinces of Atlantic Canada entered [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]] during the 19th century with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia being founding members of the Dominion of Canada in 1867,<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Christopher |url=https://archive.org/details/1867howfathersma0000moor |title=1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal |publisher=M&S |year=1997 |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada |access-date=2024-10-05}}</ref> and later Prince Edward Island joined in 1873.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kennedy |first=Gilbert D. |date=1949–1950 |title=Amendment of the British North America Acts in Relation to British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/utlj8&div=17&id=&page= |journal=University of Toronto Law Journal |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=208–217|doi=10.2307/824545 |jstor=824545 }}</ref>