DCHP-3

colonist

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a railway coach having wooden seats and rough berths for sleeping, sometimes also having cooking facilities

Quotations

1911
"He sho' raised de debbil in de Colonist last night when he seed a sharper doin' up a fellah. . . ."
2n. — Now rare

one of the persons making up a colony.

See: colony

Quotations

1879
The colonists bring with them farm implements, machinery, horses, cattle, and all the mechanical tools required for manufacturing industries.
1909
. . . there is the tale of a hard fight for this mine between two Englishmen, one of whom championed the cause of an oppressed colonist
3n.

a farmer in a remote area recently opened for settlement.

See: settler(def. 3)
The Cdn French colon in this sense is undoubtedly the source of this meaning.

Quotations

1963
These were the men they once called colonists but whom the almost-exclusively French-Canadian population of several villages now refer to as les fermiers (the farmers). Some came from the Lake St. John area of Quebec 30 years ago and some of the older men are sons of fathers who moved in soon after the railroad.