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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Nfld
to, or northward along, the Labrador coast.
Quotations
1905
When, at last, word comes south that the ice is clearing from the coast, the vessels spread their little wings to the first favouring winds; and in a week--two weeks or three--the last of the Labradormen have gone "down north."
1920
Neither do you go north if you know what you are about; you go "down North"; and your friend is not bound for Labrador. She is going to "the Labradore."
2
in, or to, the north country (used by northerners, where most "outsiders" would say "up north"); in the regions where the rivers flow "down" to the Arctic Ocean.
Quotations
1776
[. . . for even now it is full early for Paddling in the Lakes down to the Northward.]
1887
[. . . if the post was situated down in the north, the servant received so much moose meat. . . .]
1943
[Caption] These great machines are of inestimable value in levelling the landing strips which make possible year-round flying down north.
1954
"We learned in Edmonton to say 'down north,' but it was hard to get accustomed to."
1965
The land slopes gradually "down north" from a height of land roughly coinciding with the northern limit of the settlement.