DCHP-3

back-block

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a block of land in the back country; hence (usually plural) an isolated rural region.

See: back concession(def. 2a),back country,block(def. 1)

Quotations

1910
True it is that men and women in the back-blocks sometimes break down under the stress of adverse circumstances and go mad.
1947
Members of the Geological Survey in the backblocks of both Ontario and Quebec still travel in canoes. . . .
1956
He looked more like an old-fashioned back-block preacher of the evangelical kind. . . .