DCHP-3

section line

West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

the survey line setting off a section (def. 2).

See: section

Quotations

1871
In exceptional cases, the rectangular system of survey admits of such subdivisions as to enable him to include all his improvements, whether or not they are on different sides of a section or quarter-section line.
1911
In time, there will be regular Government roads cut through the bush along the section lines every two miles east and west, and every mile north and south
2

a road running along the survey line separating sections.

Quotations

1957
. . . he stays strictly at home, except to go to the polls on election day and to walk up and down the section lines around home.