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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
This would encompass the "Atlantic Northeast", but, otherwise, this is a fairly foreign concept and nowhere near as well formed in the public consciousness as the "Pacific Northwest" or "Cascadia."
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When most people talk about the Pacific Northwest or Cascadia they're referring to a fairly compact area that runs from roughly Vancouver to Portland (like how "Northern California" mostly connotes SF, not Yreka). It has a roughly even level of development and natural environment and if it weren't for bad infrastructure and the international border would be a more cohesive "megaregion".
In the Northeast there are a few comparable areas, one being the much larger Boston-Washington corridor, another being the St. Lawrence area or maybe Quebec-Windsor, and then the central part of the Maritimes being its own smaller region separated from the others by the comparatively empty parts of NB and ME. Newfoundland is completely separate and Labrador doesn't have road access. The arctic parts of Quebec are not a meaningful part of the region, they just happen to be a part of that province.
If you want to talk about physical geography there's a coastal lowland area in eastern North America that part of NB and NS is in as well as the major cities of the US Eastern Seaboard. It's distinct from the Great Lakes or Appalachia, but parts of Cape Breton and Newfoundland have similar geography but closer to the coast. They look very different from other parts of the region.