DCHP-3

down East

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

in or to the Maritimes, especially Nova Scotia (particularly from the point of view of someone in Central Canada).

See: East (the)(def. 1)

Quotations

1834
Now Nab is a real cute girl, and has got so much larnin . . . for her father sent her sicks weeks down east to bordin skool.
1891
An enterprising down East Hustler lately conceived the idea of crowding the "Best Fifty Books" into one volume, and selling the same by subscription.
1962
Nobody forces it [a family], though it's of course too bad if it can no longer make a livelihood Down East
2

in or to central Canada or the Maritimes, usually Ontario (from the point of view of persons in the West and Northwest).

See: back East(def. 1),East (the)(def. 2)

Quotations

1881
The weather we have experienced so far this winter has been as summer compared to that down east.
1912
We gossiped of Captain Taylor's half-bred child, Wee James at school down East. . . .
1962
The traditional style favored down east, the old draw game, had the curlers trying to place their stones "in the house"--somewhere inside a 12-foot circle at the other end of the ice sheet.