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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a secondary road, often unpaved, leading to a main highway.

Quotations

1854

The municipalities have taxed themselves too heavily for the main road . . . to be able to build also the side roads.

1931

Uncle Pippin . . . drove away beside his meek white horse down the narrow, leisurely red side-road. . . .

1959

Now we go round by Tinchers', take the side road and go east two miles, then back to the correction line where it hits the Candy place.

2n.

in Ontario, a road built along the side boundaries of a concession (def. 2) at right angles to a concession road.

See: concession(def. 2),concession road,sideline(def. 2)

Quotations

1873

To Joseph Whaley for pine timber for culvert on first side road, $1.00.

1947

. . . I carried the big shelf a long mile from the ploughed side-road, down the drifted concession line to Moonstone creek.

1966

. . . the best catches [were] at Claremont ... Bruce's Mill (between Highway 7, and Gormley sideroad in Markham Township) and the Heart Lake area near Brampton.