DCHP-3

settler

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

1n.

a person who settles in a new country or in another part of the same country, usually on the frontier.

Quotations

1755
In order to save as many of the Acadian cattle as possible, I have given some of them among such of the English settlers as have the means of feeding them.
1852
Although the upper part hasn't as yet any settlers upon it, a great many clearings are to be found on the lower part.
1960
The settlers called them "dugouts."
2an. — Lab.

See quote.

Quotations

1947
The resident white fishermen of the outer coast are mostly known under the title liveyeres, a West of England word supposed to be a corruption of "live here". On the southern coast a distinction is also made between liveyeres, English-speaking, semi-settled fishermen[,] and habitants, semi-settled fishermen who speak French. The former are also termed "planters" or "settlers."
1964
But since the Labrador settlers . . . have always lived with and worked alongside Eskimos, there was not the antagonism that might have occurred in a white community "outside" if 150 strangers had suddenly moved in with them.
2bn.

See quote 1947.

Quotations

1947
. . . the term "settler" [for livyer] should be eliminated because it may give rise to confusion; in the coastal district north of Makkovik this is the term given to some semi-settled half-breeds of white and Eskimo.
1959
Hopedale--[Labrador, has] about 200 people. Very few, if any, are pure Eskimo, nearly all are "Settlers," mainly Eskimo speaking, but most can speak English.
3n.

a small farmer and part-time logger and trapper in Northern Ontario, especially a French-speaking Canadian.

See: colonist(def. 3)

Quotations

1963
The farmers' hold on the land is so tenuous [because of poverty] that even though some have been here [N.Ont.] thirty years, they are still called "settlers."