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n.
the extensive, largely inhospitable regions of northern Canada, especially the Far North.
Quotations
1793
This is called les Rochers du Grand Callumet, and here I saw for the first time, tripe de Roche, (rock weed)--which the men tell me is the last resource men have to subsist on in the inhospitable regions of the dreary north, and it has been Know[n] to keep men alive for months, boiled in water. . . .
1937
. . . the North is always there like a presence; it is the background of the picture without which Canada would not be Canada.
1954
The clergymen on board made a fairly good cross section of the church in the North, as I was to see it in the years that followed.