DCHP-3

rolling prairie†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a stretch of undulating plains, as in parts of the Prairie Provinces.

Quotations

1841
. . . the country behind [Fort Edmonton] consist of rolling prairie.
1880
After leaving the river the road passes for the most part through a beautiful tract of country, rolling prairie alternating with woodland.
1905
Northward from the Thompson for one hundred miles is another region of rolling bench lands . . . in a surprising manner maintaining a dryness far north into the Chilcotin rolling prairie country west of the Fraser. . . .
1936
The rolling prairie, like the South African veldt, offered extensive cover to the defending force. . . .