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Originally Posted by esquire
^ On one hand you say we're a prairie province but on the other hand you say we're central. Which is it? The prairies are a subregion of Western Canada... all 3 prairie provinces are western. Prairie provinces are by definition western.
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The easternmost city in the western region, is still technically in the western region. What weird about calling the prairies "west" is that the true west is the west coast which is defined as it's own region. That was from a time in history when the west referred to the entirety of land west of Ontario and the rest was upper canada or lower canada. Just like it's weird calling the American states east of the "centroid" the American "mid-west" when spatially it's more accurate to call it the mid-east. The real mid-west should be everything west of the current midwest and east of the continental divide. Once we established descriptions for more than three regions we should refined the definition of the west to not include all three prairie provinces.