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Planter Hist. 
n. a pre-Loyalist immigrant to Nova Scotia from the New England colonies.
See also: New England Planter
- 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.
- 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.