What's the Matter with Canada?

As you may know, parts of Canada are not thickly populated. Maybe you will notice what I mean when you see this map of Churchill riding that has 74,000 people and takes up about 3/4 of the province. Why is this part of a province? Canada was not always this way. Canada used to look like this:



Does anybody live in the parts of Ontario or Quebec that were not incorporated in 1867? No. Why did they expand those provinces? The 1867 map is very pretty to look at. I bet it had to do with mining rights and provincial chauvinism. Shame on you Canada.

I realize that Western Canada is a little more thickly settled now and that perhaps it was a good idea to organize Alberta etc.

But honestly did they have to be so big? Those trapezoidal spaces are really ugly. The northern plains provinces could have been left as part of the Northwest Territory. It wouldn't have been a tragedy. Did you know that people in Canadian territories have the vote? Now that's a sweet deal.