I'm from BC and most of my CDN sales are eastern Canada. Are yours?

[musicyouneed]

Of the 4 CD's I'll be sending out so far on Monday I have one from Yarmouth NS another from Sainte-Rose NB.  I've noticed that 90% of my Canadian sales are to eastern Canada, Ontario, Quebec and the maritime provinces.  I have very few from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta or BC.   I am only noticing because of our new expected to be delivered by: possible defect.  

I also guess the people back east like music more than the west or I am visible to the buyers on the east coast and not the west coast.  

Do you find the majority of your sales in Canada from certain provinces?  Are they mostly east cost, prairie or west cost or evenly distributed?

[onlineyardsale.cad.usd]

I've notice too that most of sales are from Quebec and Ontario.

[pierrelebel]

"most of sales are from Quebec and Ontario. "

It is quite normal.  It is called law of average since Ontario and Quebec population (over 22 million) accounts for 63% of the Canadian population.

[mr.elmwood]

I was in an upper floor corner hotel room across from Toronto City Hall couple years back. Pressing my nose to the window and looking around, I remarked to the Mrs: "I am looking at more population than exists between Sault St Marie and Vancouver Island".

Oddly, and I have remarked on this before, my sales to Quebec have always been higher than sales to Ontario.

[rose-dee]

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@musicyouneed wrote:

I also guess the people back east like music more than the west or I am visible to the buyers on the east coast and not the west coast.   

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One factor that might explain it is that there is a very strong, deep, music culture here that goes back many generations (I'm in Nova Scotia).  People not only listen to music, but do a lot of local music-making too.  Then there are the "kitchen parties" that by definition must include some sort of toe-tapping live music.  

There are small groups and bands everywhere you go, I'd say more so than in the west (I lived in BC for nearly 30 years).  There is a lot of Celtic, Acadian, and other folk-inspired music of course, and more rock bands than you might think.  

Even our tiny little town of Annapolis Royal (population about 500) has several groups of various genres, including a couple of classical ensembles.  One day a few weeks ago when I was in town at the outdoor farmer's market, they had a live band playing Nova Scotia sea shanties -- you could hear people singing along as they wandered through the market, clearly familiar with these very old tunes.  (The only one I knew well enough to sing was "Farewell to Nova Scotia", the unofficial provincial anthem). 

Here, music is a way of life, so I imagine there is also a keen interest in listening to music on CDs.  There are also not a lot of conveniently-located music stores.   

[rose-dee]

Oh, and in case anybody is interested ... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaE9vlrhX-k

(I realize Gordon Lightfoot isn't a Nova Scotian, but at least he's Canadian.  He does the shanty well.) 

[rose-dee]

And at the risk of overdoing it, here's a Catherine McKinnon version, complete with "postcards": 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vau3xlj8eI

[femmefan1946]

Tanya Huff has written a short urban fantasy series, The Enchantment Emporium/ The Future Falls / The Wild Ways, which uses music as one of the ways the 'witches' travel.

Music is an integral part of the stories, and The Wild Ways follows the Nova Scotia Celtic music festival circuit with footnotes about each song referenced.