In Manitoba, Trappist monasteries at Holland gave rise to Oka-style cheese and the prairie provinces blended immigrant traditions into a regional cooking; on the other coast, Scottish Highlanders brought oatcakes in 1773 that are still a staple of Halifax coffee shops. What overarching culinary tradition links these places?

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Canadian cuisine. Canadian cuisine on the prairies took shape in Manitoba and its sister provinces, mixing British, Mennonite, and German cooking traditions across immigrant farming towns. In Atlantic Canada, Scottish Highlanders brought oatcakes in 1773, and seafood-heavy Maritime cooking still shapes the region's food today.