DCHP-3

clay belt

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large tract of land in Northern Ontario and Quebec lying south of James Bay and north of the Laurentian Plateau.

Quotations

1916
This railway, striking up from North Bay into the mineral region and clay belt beyond the height-of-land, was begun by the Ontario government in 1902 as a colonization road.
1961
B. J. Mulligan . . . was impressed by the fertility of the clay belt . . . near the present-day town of Haileybury.