DCHP-3

high country ((1))

[trans. of Cdn F haut pays]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the hinterland; the forests of the North and Northwest; the fur country.

Quotations

1903
The second day, however, we came to a surveyor's base-line cut through the woods. Then we followed that as a matter of convenience. The base-line, cut the fall before was the only evidence of man we saw in the high country.
1942
"Eh, bien. Well, some time again we winter in the high country, maybe. . . ."