a native or resident of Lower Canada, especially a French-speaking Canadian.
- 1798  (1935)  This looks like a continuance of the War, & is accompanied by a hint that the Lower Canadians are not so quiet as they should be.
- 1853  Up to 1849, you Lower Canadians had the meanest, shabbiest, most deceitful executive administration of any I know.
- 1963  . . . but Lower Canadians also, following their own political genius, had advanced from the position of 1809.