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mile-belt
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
on the Prairies, the first tier of sections on each side of the Canadian Pacific Railway line within the railway belt, so called because each section was a mile deep and those closest to the line were first opened to settlement.
See: railway belt
Quotations
1883
The mile belt--that is the even numbered sections along and on both sides of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
1883
It is mysteriously hinted that the rights of squatters on the mile-belt will be finally conceded, if they but hold fast to their lands and improvements.