>(Similarly, the OWaW world's equivalent of Maine is called Dawnland
>because it's the easternmost part of the continental United States,*
>and thus the first part of the country where each new day arrives.)

Though if course when it was first settled it would have been part of the same Britannian Empire as Nova Albia, or whatever that peninsula to its east is called. Perhaps it got that name when it separated from Algonquia?