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Dry Belt Alkali Dry Belt 
1 on the Prairies, an extensive region of low precipitation, roughly bounded by Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and Medicine Hat, Alberta.
See also: dry-land
- 1902 (1957) We sped on towards Moose Jaw, traversing a district recently settled by homesteaders who seem to have much faith in the future of this gumbo region at the outskirts of the dry belt.
- 1952 The Dry Belt has no population nucleus or regional centre, although Swift Current and Medicine Hat might be considered as rivals for this function.
2 in British Columbia, a long tract of arid broken country stretching from the United States border to Prince George and lying between the Monashee Range (east of the Okanagan Valley) and the Coast Range.
- 1887 . . . we had now passed out of the up-country Wet Belt, and were in the Dry Belt, where the rain did not fall all the year round.
- 1957 Now the last black skeletons of Wallachin's orchards confirm the decisive fact of vegetable life in the Dry Belt--its absolute dependence on a trickle of moisture.
- 1902 (1957) We sped on towards Moose Jaw, traversing a district recently settled by homesteaders who seem to have much faith in the future of this gumbo region at the outskirts of the dry belt.