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Lone Land 
1 Hist. the immense, sparsely populated prairies prior to 1900.
- 1872 (1883) . . . it needs but little cause to recall again to the wanderer the image of the immense meadows where, far away at the portals of the setting sun, lies the Great Lone Land.
- 1878 The westerly end of the Pacific Telegraph flashes a kindly greeting to the Capital of the Lone Land, and to the inhabitants wishes a Merry Christmas and many returns, which will doubtless be fulfilled if the murderous scalping knife can be educated to operate on plum duff instead of human skulls.
- 1963 Thus [in 1873] opened the modern history of the lone land, the southern portion of the territory which was to become Saskatchewan and Alberta 32 years later.
2 (in more recent use) the Northland of bush and barrens.
- 1900 "Although what they consider good eating and drinking is their chief god," says that wanderer in the Lone Land, "yet, when necessity compels them to it, they submit to great privation and hardship, not only without complaining, but even with cheerfulness and gaiety."
- 1934 The Fur Lords no longer rule the Red Men; the erstwhile silence of the Lone Land is now broken by the sirens of ocean freighters carrying grain from Churchill to Europe, and the rumble and shrieks of freight and passenger trains as they speed swiftly across the Barren Lands.
- 1872 (1883) . . . it needs but little cause to recall again to the wanderer the image of the immense meadows where, far away at the portals of the setting sun, lies the Great Lone Land.