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the Atlantic provinces, especially Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as opposed to the Canadas.
See: Lower Provinces(def. 1)
Quotations
1835
New Brunswick is the only one of the Lower Colonies yet favored with Legislative and Executive Councils.
1856
I do not now believe in the practicability of the federal or legislative union of Canada with the three "Lower Colonies."