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colonization highway
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a road built into an unsettled area to make it accessible for settlement.
See: colonization road
Quotations
1933
It is related that the British Columbia delegates, during negotiations with the Dominion Government, urged Cartier to the effect that a railway be built across the prairies to the foot of the mountains, and that a colonization highway be laid out thence to the Pacific Coast.