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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a pre-Loyalist immigrant to Nova Scotia from the New England colonies.
See: New England Planter
Quotations
1952
The "Planters" established agricultural colonies in 1760-1 at Truro . . . Annapolis . . . and Sackville, for the most part on lands formerly occupied by the exiled Acadians.
1957
Consider, for instance, this word Planters, which is used for the New Englanders who came to settle in the Minas Basin area in the year 1760.