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Originally Posted by esquire
Even though both are western, there is a pretty clear difference between 'west coast' and the sort of more midwestern parts... Edmonton/Vancouver, Denver/San Francisco... very different places IMO.
But to balletomane's point, I'd still say Winnipeg is western.I think we tend to obsess over small differences, but to most people the biggest obvious difference between Winnipeg and other prairie cities like Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary is size. Vancouver is a bit of a different beast... we probably have more in common with a place like St. Louis than with Van.
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You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I'd say that "Western" is too imprecise of a categorization for classifying our cities and we don't really have a "Midwest".
So, depending on how fussy you want to be about cities in Canadian context, I'd break it down into 6 broad categories:
1. Atlantic Canada (maybe Newfoundland could stand on its own)
2. Quebec
3. Ontario (Northern Ontario might be its own thing too, see our discussion on TBay)
4. Prairies
5. West Coast
6. The North
By that standard, Winnipeg is most certainly a Prairie city.