The Maritimes

NOT even their most ardent advocates would seriously urge that the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland) rank high on the lists of Social Pioneers. The 1 1/2 million inhabitants of this most easterly area of Canada, who think Conservative but fairly consistently vote Liberal, take seriously Alexander Pope's advice, "Be not the first by whom the new are tried; nor yet the last to lay the old aside"--they are content to allow others to do the experimenting and collect the headaches, but when they discover something that's good they move in fast and quietly annex it.