Canadian province

Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes

• Alberta — one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals
• British Columbia — a province in western Canada
• Manitoba — one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada
• New Brunswick — a province in southeastern Canada
• Newfoundland — a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland; became Canada's 10th province in 1949
• Nova Scotia — the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns
• Ontario — a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada
• Prince Edward Island — an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada
• Quebec — the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British
• Saskatchewan — one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada

• state, province — the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation