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back East

• 1 West Ontario, especially Southern Ontario; sometimes, also Quebec and the Maritimes.

  See also: down East  

  • 1903  . . . I wouldn't live back East again and work for other people.
  • 1954  Back east . . . Merv Hardie has been gaining a well-deserved reputation for plain speaking.

• 2 See quote.

  • 1963  It [B.C.] is the Real West -- so far west that Calgary is "back East."