None of the territories are actually in the east. The other territory in question is presumably the Northwest Territories, since Nunavut is the anachronism.
For an Oregon boy like me, the "mysterious east" is everything from Idaho on. Just like how East Coast Americans charmingly call the east-central part of the continent the "Midwest".
> Just like how East Coast Americans charmingly call the east-central part of the continent the "Midwest".
Most New Yorkers couldn't show you where North Dakota is on a map, let alone most of the Midwest states like Michigan or Kansas. Most of the East Coast people I know refer to the Midwest as "fly over country".
If you think in terms of settlements on the east coast, considering expanding westward and buying land in the Louisiana Purchase to do so, the term "midwest" makes more sense.
I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the fact that people who live in Indiana call it the Midwest. If anything it should be called the Mideast...
