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provincial ((n.)) Now Rare

• 1 n. a native of one of the provinces of Canada.

  See also: provincialist (def. 1)  

  • 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.

• 2 n. a member of the provincial police.

  See also: provincial police  provincial policeman  

  • 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.