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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
I take some issue with the map you have in your post. For example, they have Anticosti as part of the St. Lawrence Lowlands, when the island is rather mountainous and infertile. Similarly, they show all the Maritimes as being part of the Appalachian Region. This is true for northern NB, and depending on how you define it, perhaps portions of NS, but large parts of the region are considered coastal lowlands (the Maritime Plain), and are more akin to the coastal plain along the US eastern seaboard.
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This is a very common mistake on Canadian maps. On American maps there's a cutoff around coastal Massachusetts extending all the way down to Florida. But all of Nova Scotia tends to get lumped in with mountainous areas of Maine and New Hampshire.
The flora you see in Western NS is the same as areas like Cape Cod, not upstate NH.
It's also pretty weird to consider PEI part of "Appalachia". It's a mostly flat island covered with farms.