Canada State by State

 A British Twitter/Facebook account, Milkman Memes for Lib Dem Teens, has related each English county to a supposedly comparable US state. Cornwall is Florida, Greater London is New York, and so forth.

I have long thought that many Canadian provinces seem to weirdly correspond to US states. I might even have posted that here before.

British Columbia is California. It is our left coast, with much the same vibe. A place where anything seems possible.

Yukon is our Alaska. More broadly, all the territories are our Alaska.

Alberta is our Texas. Oil, cowboys, a right-wing political slant. 

Saskatchewan is Kansas, the perfectly representative Prairie state/province. All straight lines.

Manitoba is Missouri. The gateway to the West. Winnipeg is St. Louis.

Ottawa is the entire industrial Midwest: Illinois to Ohio.

Past this it gets trickier. Provinces east of the Ottawa have a more distinct character. Quebec is like no one place in the US, part New York, part Louisiana. 

The Maritime provinces resemble New England, but there are no clear one-to-one comparisons province to state. PEI is like Rhode Island in being the smallest province; but PEI is rural, Rhode Island urban. Nova Scotia is the regional hub, like Massachusetts. New Brunswick might correspond to upper New England in general, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Newfoundland’s reputation within Canada is reasonably comparable to that of the US South in general: hillbilly country.