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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Gee, thanks..........
Some provinces have clear US analogues, other do not.
The Maritime analogues are most definitely in New England.
- Nova Scotia = Massachusetts
- New Brunswick = Maine
- Prince Edward Island is an outlier here though. I would probably choose Delaware for PEI (same size and shape, nice rural landscape).
- Newfoundland is Canada's Alaska as far as I'm concerned (remoteness, ruggedness, climate).
- Quebec is New York. Montreal is a good analogue for NYC in terms of character and cosmopolitan status. St. Lawrence = Hudson River. Townships = Finger Lake district. Laurentians = Adirondacks.
- Ontario is a dogs breakfast just because of it's size and diversity. A good analogue would be Illinois, but with touches of Michigan and the midwest states too.
- Manitoba = Minnesota
- Saskatchewan = North Dakota
- Alberta = Montana, but with hints of Colorado and Texas
- British Columbia = Washington, but with strong overtones of California.
The northern territories have no real US analogue.
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But it isn't necessarily the most useful comparison to just take the states that are mirrored directly adjacent across the border as analogues.
You may have to ask, within the context of that country, what is the relationship of that state to the whole country, then you may come up with different answers.
In Canada, perhaps BC is most similar in context to California, perhaps Alberta to Texas, etc., perhaps there is no analogue for Ontario, it would not even be just one region, but two large regions, as I said in the post above.
And of course, New Brunswick to Alabama.