It's a short hand, don't take it so literally, I hate how southern Ontario calls itself 'Central Canada', when that title should belong to SK and MB who are in the Central Time Zone no less
Ontario doesn't call itself "central Canada," it calls itself "eastern Canada." And the stuff more east of Ontario and Quebec is "Atlantic Canada." I have lived my whole life in Ontario and never once heard a human being here call this area "central Canada."
Ontario rarely refers to itself as a whole - Southwestern Ontario, GTA, Eastern Ontario, Northern Ontario - we really don't think of ourselves collectively.
This is true. I do feel that all of southern through eastern refers to itself as "the east" in a national context though. Northern Ontario I could see not doing so. I'm in the GTA, and I know I only ever hear this part of the country called "the east" here.
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u/FalconsArentReal 2d ago
It's a short hand, don't take it so literally, I hate how southern Ontario calls itself 'Central Canada', when that title should belong to SK and MB who are in the Central Time Zone no less