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Dry Belt
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Alkali Dry Belt
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
on the Prairies, an extensive region of low precipitation, roughly bounded by Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and Medicine Hat, Alberta.
See: dry-land
Quotations
1902
We sped on towards Moose Jaw, traversing a district recently settled by homesteaders who seem to have much faith in the future of this gumbo region at the outskirts of the dry belt.
1952
The Dry Belt has no population nucleus or regional centre, although Swift Current and Medicine Hat might be considered as rivals for this function.
2
in British Columbia, a long tract of arid broken country stretching from the United States border to Prince George and lying between the Monashee Range (east of the Okanagan Valley) and the Coast Range.
Quotations
1887
. . . we had now passed out of the up-country Wet Belt, and were in the Dry Belt, where the rain did not fall all the year round.
1957
Now the last black skeletons of Wallachin's orchards confirm the decisive fact of vegetable life in the Dry Belt--its absolute dependence on a trickle of moisture.