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provincial ((n.))
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a native of one of the provinces of Canada.
See: provincialist(def. 1)
Quotations
1853
I consider the word "Life" to apply to all that relates to the social and political condition of the Provincials.
1859
There were many provincials at Queenborough who were competent mechanics, and who ought to have had the privilege of tendering.
1923
NOVA SCOTIA has need of another Hakluyt to record the traffics and discoveries, the disasters and the heroic deeds of the seafaring provincials.
2n.
a member of the provincial police.
Quotations
1936
On his flight across the provinces he had outwitted city cops a-plenty and slipped out of several tight squeezes with the Provincials; but these Mounteds were bad eggs.
1963
Cpl. Denis G. (Denny) Jones, one of the most popular "provincials" every to serve here, was transferred after being promoted from constable.