DCHP-3

ranching

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — West

See 1958 quote.

Quotations

1888
Calgary is the centre of the great ranching country, and one of the chief outfitting places for the mining districts.
1953
It was good ranching land in the early days on the arrival of the mounties [...] and the pioneer rancher of the Cypress Hills [...].
1958
Ranching. The raising of livestock by grazing the native grasslands on a relatively extensive basis is confined to two large areas of Western Canada: (1) Southern Alberta together with southwestern Saskatchewan and (2) the southern interior plateau of British Columbia.
2n.

the raising of any of various animals for commercial purposes.

See: ranch ((1)) ((v.))(def. 3)

Quotations

1959
Tom introduced rat ranching (muskrat, that is) to the North Country, and his workings covered 54,000 acres at Moose Lake, 320,000 acres in Saskatchewan Province.
1963
. . . the Canadian government was prompted to purchase, in 1929, a herd of 3,000 reindeer from Alaska to start reindeer ranching in the Canadian Arctic.
1965
Looking ahead, we feel the rewards of fur ranching--of all kinds--will increase.