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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.pl.

back country (def. 1); wild, unsettled or sparsely settled areas.

See: back country(def. 1)

Quotations

1830

The nearest approach that I have observed among this race [negroes] is in a few families who occupy the back-lands of Great Tracadie, an Acadian township near the Gut of Canso.

1960

In the early 1800's people said that these backlands would produce rich lumber fortunes.