DCHP-3

Great Lone Land

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Canadian Northwest.

Quotations

1872
[Book title].
1875
"Great Lone Land" as applied to the Nor'-West is a misnomer, in that it conveys the idea of an empire of nothingness through whose amazing vastness the bewildered traveller might wander with the loneliness of a deserted Siberian miner.
1915
It was from this source that the first clarion sounded for the right of Canada to hold undisputed sway over the Great Lone Land of the west.
1955
"This has truly been called the Great Lone Land," he would say.