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1
the Atlantic provinces, especially Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as opposed to the Canadas.
See: Lower Colonies
Quotations
1825
We have certainly equal . . . advantages, as regards shipbuilding, to the Lower Provinces; yet one hundred and twenty vessels were built in New Brunswick in 1824, and near seventy during the year just ended.
1830
The lower provinces, by which I mean New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, are as essentially distinct from the Canadas, as (to use a home phrase) the "West End," from the "City" of our British Metropolis.
1948
Halifax, the metropolis of Nova Scotia, and the chief city of the Acadian or Lower Provinces, was founded in the year 1749. . . .
2 — West
the eastern provinces, from Ontario to the Maritimes.
Quotations
1879
The Employment Bureau connected with The Times has been established for the purpose of opening up a direct and reliable medium of communication between employers of all kinds in the North-West and those seeking employment in the Lower Provinces.