Provincial
- Queens (Nova Scotia provincial electoral district), which has existed since 1941
- Queens (New Brunswick provincial electoral district), in use from 1785 to 1974 in the province of New Brunswick
- Queen's (Prince Edward Island provincial electoral district), which returned members to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1903–1966
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Famous quotes containing the word provincial:
“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)