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Travel in Upper Canada was much harder in the 18th century. There was no single navigable waterway connecting the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence. There were few roads and land travel was harder than travel by sea back then. Even by 1850 or so Atlantic Canada's population was pretty close to Ontario's, so it's a bit questionable to claim that Halifax or Saint John were out in the boonies back then (they were also each about as populated as Toronto at that time and were more established cities).