London, Ontario (laid out before Toronto) was supposed to be the capital of Ontario, but it was just deemed too damned far from major population sources.
Back in the 60s, when they decided to start building Mirabel Airport, there was a thought that Montreal could end up with 8 million people not long after the millennium.
One factor that dampened Atlantic Canada was the intrusion of Maine. If the top half of that state had ended up in Canada, it would have provided a more direct line to the Canadian heartland.
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