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Pays d'en Haut Cdn French, Hist.

• the vast region north and west of Lake Superior, as known by the fur traders and explorers.

  See also: Northwest (def. 1a)  up-country  Upper Country  

  • 1912  These were the great Nakonkirhirinons from that limitless region of the Pays d'en Haut.
  • 1931  One of the conditions of acceptance for membership [in the Beaver Club] was that the applicant or invited member must have passed a winter in the Pays d'en Haut. . . .
  • 1963  Soon indeed they would have to take goods inland as the trade in the pays d'en haut, the up country, became fiercely competitive.