List of proposed provinces and territories of Canada
Movements within Canada
There have been movements to redistrict existing land in order to create new provinces and territories within Canada. In late 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin surprised some observers by expressing his personal support for all three territories gaining provincial status "eventually".

List of proposed provinces and territories of Canada

Section Title: Movements within Canada
Table Section Text: There have been movements to redistrict existing land in order to create new provinces and territories within Canada. In late 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin surprised some observers by expressing his personal support for all three territories gaining provincial status "eventually".

Area	Land	Description

Atlantic Canada	Maritime Union	The Maritime Union is a proposed province which would be formed by a merger of the three existing Maritime provinces of Canada: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Acadia	This province was promoted by the Parti Acadien and is similarly represented by the unrecognized state "Republic of Madawaska". The Parti Acadien supported the creation of a new province consisting of the francophone parts of New Brunswick, in tandem with most Acadian Society of New Brunswick members.

Cape Breton Island	Cape Breton Island had been a separate colony, but was incorporated into Nova Scotia. Provincehood was advocated by the Cape Breton Labour Party.

Labrador	Labrador is the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Labrador Party has campaigned on the platform of a separate province.

Nunatsiavut	This is an area in northern Labrador, which is inhabited mainly by Inuit, many of whom wish to leave Newfoundland and Labrador and form a territory similar to Nunavut.

Quebec	Province of Montreal	It has been proposed to separate the city of Montreal, its metropolitan region or its English and non-Francophone regions into a separate province from Quebec.

Nunavik	This is Quebec's northernmost Inuit and First Nation territory, that is seeking a status similar to Nunatsiavut in Labrador.

Kanienkehaka	During the runup to the 1995 Quebec referendum, Mohawk leaders asserted a sovereign right to secede from Quebec if Quebec were to secede from Canada.

Ontario	National Capital Region	At various times, provincial, territorial or special federal status has been proposed for the metropolitan area consisting of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec, so that the national capital region would be a district like the Australian Capital Territory or the District of Columbia.

Northern Ontario	Throughout the region's history, there have been various movements proposing that the region secede from Ontario to form its own province.

Northwestern Ontario	In 2006, some residents of Northwestern Ontario proposed that the region secede from Ontario to join Manitoba, due to the perception that the government of Ontario does not pay sufficient attention to the region's issues.

Province of Toronto	Toronto is the largest city in Canada. Some have argued that the rest of Ontario benefits from Toronto more than the reverse.

Western Canada	Province of Buffalo	Buffalo was a proposed Canadian province prior to 1905. Carved out of the southern portion (south of 55°N) of the North-West Territories, it would have comprised the southern halves of the present day provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, including the already sizeable urbanized communities of Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, and Regina, with Regina as the capital.

British Columbia	Vancouver Island	In 2013, in response to the federal electoral district redistribution, two separatist groups emerged to make Vancouver Island its own country or province.

Northern Canada	Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut	Each of the three Canadian territories has had movements lobbying for their territorial political status to be upgraded to full provincehood.

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The Province of Buffalo was a proposed Canadian province.

final_sentence: The Province of Buffalo was a proposed Canadian province.