back township

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a township or settlement remote from or isolated from centres of population; formerly, one of the back settlements of Upper and Lower Canada.

Quotations

1805

Many of the back townships have been intentionally omitted, as my design was transcribed.

1890

His appearance denoted that he had come in from the back townships to see the Carnival.

1926

Mr. B. a native Canadian told Mrs. Jameson that not one person in seventy, in the back townships, could read or write.

1957

A grandson of Gilles Stone . . . removed from "the front" to "the back townships" . . . .