The Spring Wheat breeding program for Eastern Canada is an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) research program that is supported by a combination of grower funds and government research grants. The program produces spring wheat cultivars for growers across Eastern Canada, including Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces. The program operates at two centres in the AAFC system, with staff located at Charlottetown, PE and Ottawa, ON. While the geographic area covered by the program is large, facing different regional requirements and priorities, the spring wheat acreages in Eastern Canada are relatively small. This creates a unique set of challenges for a small breeding program to address. The Eastern wheat program has traditionally produced tall, high yielding varieties with high levels of resistance to Fusarium head blight and powdery mildew, but with lower protein and milling quality than typical of Canadian export quality hard red spring bread wheat. The breeding program is currently focussed on increasing milling quality and resistance to rust and lodging while maintaining and building on the traditional strengths of the program.