DCHP-3

outsider

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person of or from the settled part of Canada; a non-resident of the North.

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

Quotations

1923
Lo! the poor Outsider, what he loses, what he misses!
1958
Few "Outsiders" have any idea of the tremendous amount of administrative work done in the Northwest Territories and Yukon, by the R.C.M.P.
1961
At the port were five white persons--the Anglican missionary, his wife and three at the Hudson's Bay Company post; they had not seen outsiders since the annual summer visit of the ship. . . .