I knew of the east coast provinces in that if you'd named them to me I would have said they were provinces in the eastern part of Canada. It's just that my mental map had them all squished in directly north of Maine instead of going further out into the Atlantic. So I guess I thought Quebec was a lot skinnier. (Désolé!) The Nova Scotia guy did also tell me about Newfoundland's special half hour time zone, which raised my number of known Newfoundland facts to two, if you count big floofy dogs as one.