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David,

I am not trying to suggest Canada is anything other than a BIG country but the distance from (From another Canadian Government mapping site) Vancouver to Halifax is 2,760 Miles or 4443 Kilometres. This seems pretty right to me if you look at the superimposed map above of Australia and USA which also shows Vancouver and Halifax and that distance looks a bit more than Brisbane to Perth which is 2,245 Miles or 3,614 Kilometres.

It is really hard trying to get a mental picture of what Canada's real shape is because of the gross distortion of the common Mercator Projection maps we are all used to. I have found a good one here where the "Equator" runs through the centre of Canada givng it the least possible distortion.

Lang