Lower Canadian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a native or resident of Lower Canada, especially a French-speaking Canadian.

Quotations

1798

This looks like a continuance of the War, & is accompanied by a hint that the Lower Canadians are not so quiet as they should be.

1853

Up to 1849, you Lower Canadians had the meanest, shabbiest, most deceitful executive administration of any I know.

1963

. . . but Lower Canadians also, following their own political genius, had advanced from the position of 1809.