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Originally Posted by SJTOKO
If it weren't for confederation and the Upper Canada policy Halifax would be much bigger. All of the financial institutions and major industries were moved to the center of the country. The Maritime provinces are the only provinces that resemble US States. When we stopped trading with New York and Boston things went downhill. Oh well; When Quebec eventually seperates, we will join New England once again. The Maritime provinces have nothing in common with the rest of Canada. We have far more in common with New England.  |
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Being from the Maritimes, I must say that institutions and industries didn't "move" to the center of the country; they were never developed in the Maritimes to begin with.
This is an issue of severe finiteness of land and resources, concurrent with a dependency on land-based travels between the Maritimer cities.
Central Canadian cities have always been connected along the St. Lawrence. This combined with a massive backdrop of land, freshwater, and resources made Central Canada grow much more quickly than the Maritimes, even though colonisation began first on the Atlantic coast.
And your opinion of the Maritime provinces being the only provinces that resemble U.S. states is total bull, in my opinion. Just like the American Atlantic Seaboard, Central Canadian cities, as I've mentioned, are connected via water passage.
America was birthed by an ocean; Canada was birthed by a river.