DCHP-3

postage stamp province

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See: prairie province(def. 1)

Quotations

1935
A province named Manitoba [was] erected [containing 13,928 squaremiles]. [Footnote] This was to form what was long known as the postage stamp province.
1953
[The province of Manitoba had been set up, a small square patch in the midst of the Northwest Territories, like a postage stamp on the map of North America.]