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1
a concession (def. 2), some distance removed from urban and heavily settled areas, especially one set some distance back from the St. Lawrence River and the Lower Lakes.
Quotations
1791
Such as have applied for Land . . . will not go back into the back concessions to settle while there is so much waste and unoccupied land in front.
1885
The home we now inhabited was altogether different from the one we had left in the back concession. . . .
1958
. . . Mr. Stoliker states that back-concession farmers need to be told and advised what farmers should do and when
2a — (often plural)
any rural region.
Quotations
1929
He had been absent for over a fortnight, plying his trade in the back Concessions.
1963
[Calgary dateline] No one had considered . . . the mood of farmers on back concessions [in Alberta]. . . .
2b — Derog.
in attributive uses connoting lack of sophistication, education, etc.
Quotations
1960
Before I am accused of asking fellow socialists to drop their socialism in favour of a nebulous united front with petty nationalists and back-concession statesmen, let me say emphatically that is not my intention.
1963
"Here's Harkness, the only guy probably who could win a clear majority for the Conservatives in this election, if he was the leader, and he's talking like some back-concession reeve, or something."