DCHP-3

Lower Province

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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from 1791-1841, the official name of the province lying between the Ottawa River and New Brunswick, now included in Quebec; from 1841-1867, the popular name for Canada East [see Lower Canada defs. 1a & 1b].

See: Lower Canada(def. 1)

Quotations

1791
The population of Upper Canada amounted to only ten thousand inhabitants, and that of the Lower Province to not more than a hundred thousand.
1852
I have been told a story of a lady in the Lower Province, who took for her second husband a young fellow, who, as far as his age was concerned, might have been her son.
1955
[The] Lower province . . . was not an attractive goal for British settlers.