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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
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.
Quotations
1907
Very soon the park lands of the north were all behind us, and the rolling, dry, illimitable plain stretched out to the horizon in front.
1913
As we went on the poplar groves became more sparsely scattered over "the parklands". . . .
1960
Hundreds of families abandoned their farms and . . . crowded the roads in their desperation to reach the parklands or forest belt to the north. . .
2n.
lands set aside for public parks, national parks, etc.
Quotations
1957
Every major Canadian city knows it should be providing 10 acres of parkland for every 1,000 people.
1958
We do, of course, sometimes set aside tracts of country for recreation and so forth--and we say these are in perpetuity; but this phrase only seems to mean until the parkland is needed for logging, or mining, or to take the waters backed up from some great dam.
1966
The excellent camping facilities in Ontario's many parklands need more selling--and at a higher price.