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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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adj.
of or pertaining to the Northwest Territories (def. 2).
Quotations
1900
"Nine months' winter and three months late in the fall;" even so the writer had heard the North-Western year defined by one of these gentry, who are in the habit.of describing the Dominion as "that little ice-house up there."
1948
The scene was typically North-Western. The men wore beaded belts and moccasins, rainbow-coloured shirts and bright silk scarves and tasselled vests.