What region is Toronto in?

[Johnny Drama]

Would you guys consider to be more Eastcoast or Upper Midwest/Great Lakes? I personally thought that Toronto was very similar to Chicago when I visted and had more in common with the cities of the Midwest, like Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis.

[Waterloo_Guy]

The term Midwest isn't used in Canada. It is not a coastal city for sure. It is on Lake Ontario, so Great Lakes sounds like a good designation.

[Xelebes]

South Canada works too.

[Johnny Drama]

well, I am not trying to take away the Canadian-ess of Toronto. And yes, Midwest is a broad region. So, lets just go with the Great Lakes sub-region.

[The 'Sauga]

Well Toronto is pretty close to Buffalo so I'd classify it as Northeast, or in general, the Great Lakes.

[Jaye101]

Buffalo? Last time I checked Canada wasn't in the same country as Buffalo.

Toronto, Southern Ontario, Ontario, Central Canada or Eastern Canada, Canada, North America, Western Hemisphere, Earth, The Solar System, Milky Way, Universe!

[The 'Sauga]

My response was with reference to Johnny Drama's post of using US terms.

[Jaye101]

Well in that case Chihuahua is in the faarrr south. No real point in using American terms.

[Johnny Drama]

I think there is. Canadian cities are almost all right on the American border. Can one not say that Vancouver is similar to Pacific American Northwest cities such as Seattle or Portland, perhaps San Fran? Or Calgary to places like Denver?

Maybe I should have rephrased the original question. Culturally, architecturally, etc. do you identify more with the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes or the East Coast?

[ToRoNto, g-town]

^i'd say a mixture of both

[noob(but not really)]

You may as well call us the gateway to the midwest.

[Waterloo_Guy]

Originally Posted by Johnny Drama

I think there is. Canadian cities are almost all right on the American border. Can one not say that Vancouver is similar to Pacific American Northwest cities such as Seattle or Portland, perhaps San Fran? Or Calgary to places like Denver?

So is New York part of Southern Ontario like Detroit is, or part of the Maritimes like Boston?

[Electrify]

Southern Ontario. Or to be more specific, south-central Ontario (though sometimes this area is now referred to as just The Golden Horseshoe).

In terms of Canada, I've always thought of Ontario as part of eastern Canada (though obviously not part of the maritimes).

[kettal]

If it was USA it would be "midwest", in Canada it is "central".

[rick1016]

Probably Northeast.

[Johnny Drama]

Originally Posted by Waterloo_Guy

So is New York part of Southern Ontario like Detroit is, or part of the Maritimes like Boston?

Southern Ontario is not a broad region. Nor is the Maritimes. The Maritimes would be East Coast.

[vid]

Toronto is in the Great Lakes, maybe Rustbelt. The Midwest part of Canada would probably be the southern part of Northern Ontario and Manitoba.

[Gerrad]

It's Central Canada, actually. But not geographically central. And southern Ontario part of the Great Lakes region.

Toronto isn't really an eastern city and architecturally it has a lot more in common with cities like Detroit, Cleveland and the mixed housing stock of Chicago than it does with older cities like Boston, Philadelphia or New York. Although it's older areas around Front Street or even the University of Toronto & to some degree the pre-1920s housing have more of a New England or even Mid-Atlantic (i.e. Baltimore, Pittsburgh) feel than a Great Lakes feel to them.

[Electrify]

I've always thought of central Canada as more Manitoba and Saskatchewan than Ontario.

[vid]

That's because the country is kind of lopsided. Winnipeg is in the middle, anything east of it is in the eastern half, but demographically speaking, the middle is closer to Nipigon than Winnipeg.