DCHP-3

Pays d'en Haut

Cdn French, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the vast region north and west of Lake Superior, as known by the fur traders and explorers.

Quotations

1912
These were the great Nakonkirhirinons from that limitless region of the Pays d'en Haut.
1931
One of the conditions of acceptance for membership [in the Beaver Club] was that the applicant or invited member must have passed a winter in the Pays d'en Haut. . . .
1963
Soon indeed they would have to take goods inland as the trade in the pays d'en haut, the up country, became fiercely competitive.