trunk road

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an access road (def. 1), so called because smaller forest trails branch from it.

Quotations

1952

[We favour] Government extension of and responsibility for trunk roads in the Territories.

1961

In the afternoon the cavalcade travelled the forestry trunk road known as The Loop. . . .

1965

A trunk road curves 50 miles through Highwood Valley . . . to the prairies.