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a road built into an unsettled area to make it accessible for settlement.
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1855
According to a memorandum with the title "Colonization Roads in Upper Canada," signed by Andrew Russel, dated Quebec, 20 February, 1855, Gibson had been placed in charge of the roads to be constructed. . . .
1920
Already there are thousands of miles of colonization roads and steam railways spreading like a spider's web over a huge part of that immense forest-robed territory.
1961
To accomplish this, the immigration department built the famous "colonization roads."