back East

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — West

Ontario, especially Southern Ontario; sometimes, also Quebec and the Maritimes.

Quotations

1903

. . . I wouldn't live back East again and work for other people.

1954

Back east . . . Merv Hardie has been gaining a well-deserved reputation for plain speaking.

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1963

It [B.C.] is the Real West -- so far west that Calgary is "back East."