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Height of Land
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a region of high ground forming a watershed to the north of the western end of Lake Superior.
See: Hauteur des Terres
Quotations
1800
In the former part of the day, we crossed small lakes and ponds, connected by several portages, and then came over the height of land.
1821
Kamanistiquia River takes its Rise from the Height of Land towards Lake Nipigan.
1922
All over the Lake Superior country, from the height of land north of the lake as far south as Minnesota.
1958
A lot of water has flowed this way and that way off the Height of Land since I last saw Nahdaweh.
2
the elevated plateau forming the western boundary separating Labrador and Quebec.
Quotations
1887
The latter portion of Ungava dist. is an elevated plateau, more or less broken yet nowhere abruptly so, and known throughout the entire country as the "Height of Land."
1905
Trappers who have caught sight of the `height of land' say that it is for the most part a vast table-land, barren, strewn with enormous boulders, scarce in game, swarming with flies, with vegetables surviving only in the hollows and ravines--a sullen, forsaken waste.
1963
The height of land is at Mile 150; there the southbound trains start their long run down to Seven Islands. . . .