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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:North-West, North-west, northwest, etc.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an.
the vast region north and west of Lake Superior, as known by the fur traders and explorers.
Quotations
1775
I was now [at the Grand Portage] in what is technically called the north-west; that is, the country north-west of Lake Superior.
1871
The men who went out to the North-west as voyageurs and servants in the employment of the rival companies from Canada and from Scotland hardly ever returned to their native lands.
1963
. . . the Canadian government had yet to face the problem of actually establishing order in the great North West.
1bn.
the early administrative districts which later became Saskatchewan and Alberta.
See: Northwest Territories(def. 1b)
Quotations
1860
What true Canadian can witness the tide of immigration now commencing to flow into the vast territories of the North-west without longing to have a share in the first settlement of that great and fertile country.
1908
The year 1857 was an eventful one in the annals of "The North-West," the name by which the Territories were generally known in Canada.
1958
At eighteen Uncle Dan had left his Ontario village for the "North West." This was a vague wilderness near a place called Winnipeg, where you could file on a homestead of 160 acres of bald prairie.
2n.
the general region making up the present Yukon and Northwest Territories (def. 2b) and adjacent areas of the western provinces.
See: Northwest Territories(def. 2b)
Quotations
1914
This is far from being a true picture of life as it is lived in the far North-West.
1952
The Northwest is a vast region occupying about ten per cent of the area of Canada.
1961
Alberta farmers, caught in drought-parched areas, are also increasing the demand for homestead land in the northwest.