Talk:Canada East

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I don't think Canada East and Canada West were actual political entities as the terms are not found in the Act of Union 1840. The act talks about dividing the existing counties into ridings and one legislature. See the text of the Act. If true, this should be stated in the first sentence, since Upper Canada definately had a legislature. Cafe Nervosa | talk

I see nothing in this Canadian Encyclopedia article to suggest that Canada East was a formal political entity; it seems more like an informal distinction, just as "Western Canada" is now understood to mean the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, & B.C. but it has no formal standing, e.g. nobody would address a letter to "Saskatchewan, Western Canada". --Country Wife 05:18, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

There is another article named Eastern Canada - should they be merged? They seem to be giving information about the same region of Canada. Julia 04:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)SriMeshSriMesh

This article describes the historical area of Canada East, which is mostly the portion of Quebec along the St Lawrence river, whereas Eastern Canada refers to the current-day area, which includes everything from Ontario eastward - they are quite different, both geographically and historically, so I don't think they should be merged. Mindmatrix 02:49, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. Canada East is a historical term, used 1841-1867, for the region that became Quebec in 1867. Eastern Canada is a modern term for all the provinces from Ontario to Newfoundland and Labrador. They overlap geographically, but encyclopedically they are quite distinct. Indefatigable 05:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely not. "Eastern Canada" refers to everything east of the Ontario-Manitoba border as a geographic region; "Canada East" was the actual, official and legal name in the mid-1800s of what's now Quebec. They're two very different things. Bearcat 22:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)