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outside ((n.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an.
originally among fur traders and now generally in the North, the settled, civilized parts of Canada; civilization.
Quotations
1827
He was to bring in the last letters from outside which we could expect until next spring.
1898
Many of these are men who have just arrived from the outside, sold their outfits at good profits and are going out, disgusted with the country.
1941
Only the Arctic existed for them; and everything that lay below the Mackenzie River, was to them the remote, the virtually non-existent "Outside."
1964
These people--the shopowners, clerks, trappers and prospectors of the far-north community--see him as their representative "outside."
1bn.
on the outside, in the civilized parts of Canada; in those parts other than the North.
See: outside ((adv.))
Quotations
1898
On the outside last winter when the item that flour sold in Dawson for $ 125 a sack appeared in the papers the public gave a greater squirm of surprise and astonishment than it did when hearing of some fabulous strike on Eldorado.
1964
We don't look down on people for the slight mistakes they make the way they do on the outside.
2n.
that part of Canada away from the isolated interior valleys of the western mountains.
Quotations
1919
"When I'd just got enough sowbelly to see me to the outside I pulled my freight."
1965
The only communication with the "outside" was the CPR telegraph at Carmi.