DCHP-3

pioneer fringe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the frontier of settlement in the North and Northwest.

Quotations

1952
To the north there is a broad pioneer fringe but the transition from wilderness to agricultural landscape is quite abrupt on both eastern and western boundaries.
1952
In Saskatchewan, the agricultural settlement of the "Pioneer Fringe" has penetrated about halfway through the commercial forest belt.