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Originally Posted by kirjtc2
Out here....under no circumstances is Ontario ever, ever, ever considered "eastern Canada".
Nothing pisses off a Maritimer more than some national media type talking about how things are going "out east" when they mean Toronto, as if we don't even exist out here. I've even heard Toronto called the "east coast", which is just insulting.
Is Quebec the east?....maybe.
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It's the same for Manitoba being called the west to a Vancouverite. That's absurd, I can barely accept Alberta as "the west" when it's on the other side of a giant mountain range from the coast. If North America was colonized from the west, we'd be calling AB central Canada.
Toronto is next to relatively tiny New York, and New York is quintessential east coast.
Every time this discussion comes up I have to refer to google maps. Seems like people always forget how gigantic "the west" is.
