I also studied and worked in northern BC in forestry and lived on the coastal islands as a hippie. Please don't presume to know me. Did you move to BC? That's a very un-BC thing to say in my experience of living there and being from somewhere else.

I have also never in my fifty years, thirty five of which I spent travelling and living in many different places and provinces, most west of Manitou ba and east of Quebec, never once have I heard Alberta and Sask called the mid west.