Oh Canada! Part 2- The East

Note: All informational text is a direct quote from Wikipedia.org.

~“Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces) is the region of Canada generally considered to be east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces:
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland and Labrador “


Ontario:

~“Ontario is bordered by the provinces of Manitoba to the west, Quebec to the east, and the American states of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.”



~ “Ontario is also the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.”



~ “The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is located in Ontario as well.”



~ “Ontario is Canada's leading manufacturing province accounting for 52 per cent of the total national manufacturing shipments in 2004.”



Quebec:

~ “Affectionately known as la belle province ("the beautiful province"), Quebec is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay.”



~ “It is the second most populated province, and most of its inhabitants live along or close to the banks of the Saint Lawrence River.”



~ “The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language at the provincial level.”



~ “While the province's substantial natural resources have long been the mainstay of its economy, Quebec has renewed itself to function effectively in the knowledge economy: information and communication technologies, aerospace, biotechnology, and health industries.”



New Brunswick:

~ “New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only constitutionally bilingual province (French and English) in the country.”



~ “Its capital is Fredericton.”



~ “The province's name comes from the archaic English name of Braunschweig, a city in northern Germany.”



Nova Scotia:

~ “It is the most populous province in the Maritimes, and its capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region.”



~ “Nova Scotia's economy is traditionally largely resource-based, but has in recent decades become more diverse. Industries such as fishing, mining, forestry and agriculture remain very important, and have been joined by tourism, technology, film production, music and the financial service industries.”



~ “The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotian mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately 175 km (95 nm) from the province's southern coast.”



Prince Edward Island:

~ “The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population.”



~ “ Prince Edward Island has 135,851 residents collectively referred to as Islanders.”



~ “Known as the Garden of the Gulf, the island is located in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence west of Cape Breton Island, north of the Nova Scotia peninsula, and east of New Brunswick. Its southern shore forms the Northumberland Strait.”



Newfoundland and Labrador:

~ “Geographically, the province consists of the island of Newfoundland and the mainland Labrador, on Canada's Atlantic coast.”



~ “As well as the long border on the mainland with Quebec on the Labrador peninsula, the province has a short border with Nunavut on the small Killiniq Island, ending at Cape Chidley. All islands off the northern coast of Quebec belong to the territory of Nunavut.
Newfoundland also shares a territorial water border with France, with the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.”



~ “St. John's is considered to be the oldest city in English speaking North America.”