No, and this (https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9d427dba-cd89-4cfb-9b96-05499c77197e.jpg https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9d427

No, and this (https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9d427dba-cd89-4cfb-9b96-05499c77197e.jpg https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/9d427dba-c...) is the reason why. The area in the red is one continuous granite slab called the Canadian Shield. The US has no comparable geography. There's almost zero topsoil, and building any community there involves a lot of very expensive blasting. It's bad land for the opposite reason that the Australian continent is largely uninhabitable: there's tons of water, but no soil. (The only real upside to it is that it's very conducive to hydroelectric energy; the vast majority of Canadian energy production can be, and has always been, zero-emissions- we call electric companies "the hydro", and combined with the nuclear reactors in Ontario, 85% of national electrical power generation is zero-emissions.) Superimpose a population density map on the Eastern provinces, and you'll notice that generally speaking, the settled area of the provinces ends where the shield begins. That isn't a coincidence. Sure, climate change should make a bit of the [non-red-shaded] land more economically useful, but that's about it, and mining/farming communities generally aren't large enough to provide a base for a new city especially because it's landlocked- so you're not going to see any new cities spring up there any time soon.