DCHP-3

park belt

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the lightly wooded, grassy belt of rich land lying between the open prairie and the northern forests in the three Prairie Provinces; also, similar but smaller areas of lightly wooded rolling grasslands, as the Peace River country.

See: parkland(s)(def. 1)

Quotations

1947
There are said to be about 20 million acres of satisfactory arable lands in the Park Belt, and it is predominantly a wheat-growing region.
1958
The Red Backed Cutworm is native to the Park Belt and to some extent horticultural crops a little further south.