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Down-Easter 
n. a native of eastern Canada.
See also: down East
- 1865 [At the masquerade] Jean Baptiste was represented by more than one habitant, and there were Indian Chiefs, some looking more terrible than the great Tecumseh himself, a Down-Easter in bed-gown, Sam Slick, [and] John Bull.
- 1916 In many a growing town on or near a new railway these Rip Van Winkles croaked over the menace of immigrants and colonist cars and down-easters hanging out business signs on the streets of the furpost and cowboy towns.
- 1958 There were two kinds of Down-Easters, those from the Maritimes and those from Ontario; each was as much superior to the other as the way they did things down east was superior to the way people did things out here.
- 1865 [At the masquerade] Jean Baptiste was represented by more than one habitant, and there were Indian Chiefs, some looking more terrible than the great Tecumseh himself, a Down-Easter in bed-gown, Sam Slick, [and] John Bull.