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Originally Posted by someone123
NS has been a Canadian province since the beginning so NS symbols have been included in Canadiana. Yet would you say that the Bluenose could have equally been from Ontario or Quebec? Or Newfoundland? If you were to plot a line between, say, Toronto and St. John's, Halifax would fall much closer to St. John's than Toronto.
At the broadest cultural level, all 4 Atlantic provinces belong to the Atlantic world but have limited historical continental connections. The old "neighbours" of this area are Western Europe, Canada, the US Eastern Seaboard, and the Caribbean, connected by waterways.
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Both cities are salty old seaport towns (i.e. like Gloucester Mass.), but that is not really a Canadian quality per se, so if you remove that there isn't as much in common as Halifax might have with, say, Regina or Kingston.