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Lower Provinces Hist. 
1 the Atlantic provinces, especially Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as opposed to the Canadas.
See also: Lower Colonies
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.