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prairie province
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1 — Hist.
Manitoba.
Quotations
1876
[Title]
1881
The editor of the Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel-Review, proposes with all the seriousness of a provincial scribe, to get up a huge excursion of marriageable girls in Ontario to proceed early next spring to the prairie province.
1916
The Winnipeg Board of Trade denounced the policy of "crushing and trampling upon one hundred thousand struggling pioneers of the prairie province to secure a purely imaginary financial gain to one soulless corporation."
1965
The Prairie Province. From the title of the book [see 1876 quote] which gave the phrase general circulation; after 1905 it was extended to include Saskatchewan and Alberta in "The Prairie Provinces."
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