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West, the

• 1 n. Hist. the present Western Ontario.

  See also: Western Canada  

  • 1836  Emigrants are now pouring into the "West" in greater numbers than ever.

• 2 n. the western part of Canada, generally that part west of the Great Lakes.

  See also: Western Provinces  

  • 1863  Before leaving Red River, I had heard of the fertile West--the garden of the continent--the Oasis strip, and so on; all applying to the very country we have passed through.
  • 1909  His people in the East, who had thwarted his youth, vexed and cramped him, saw only evil in his widening desires, and threw him over when he came out West--the scallywag, they called him, who had never wronged a man or--or a woman?
  • 1940  It has become obvious that the West was too hastily settled, that its good land, far from being limitless, has already been largely taken up.