DCHP-3

le Grand Pays

Cdn French, North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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originally among fur traders and now generally in the North, the settled, civilized parts of Canada; civilization.

See: outside ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1892
The old man was keen to hear about the doings of the white man in the Grand Pays, as the half-breeds indefinitely term the whole of the outside world.
1909
The land we have come from is known as "Outside" or "Le Grand Pays."