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Originally Posted by lio45
Also, anyone who puts Montreal and Quebec City in different categories here, to me makes no sense (it would be like putting Vancouver and Victoria at opposite ends of the spectrum, when in reality, IMO, they have to be near each other - which, in my ranking, they are).
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I agree.
But I feel the same way about people who say St. John's is distinct while Halifax is very Canadian. In the Canadian scheme of things, the two are similar compared to any city from another region. Cape Breton and Newfoundland are even closer, with little discernible difference for Canadians from outside the region. Most of you guys would not be able to tell the difference between a rural NS and NL accent, and many people living in Halifax are from NL. Many NL cancon celebrities got their start in Halifax. Many St. John's street scenes can be approximated in Halifax while you'd struggle to do that in Toronto.
I think of Ottawa and Montreal as the traditional "core" of historical Canada with places like Kingston and Fredericton being on the periphery of that.
I don't really think of Saint John or Moncton as being traditionally Canadian although the Loyalists in Saint John have more overlap with Ontario and the United States. Saint John is a strange place, politically distinct from most of the Maritimes.
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