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back township

• a township or settlement remote from or isolated from centres of population; formerly, one of the back settlements of Upper and Lower Canada.

  See also: back concession  

  • 1805  Many of the back townships have been intentionally omitted, as my design was transcribed.
  • 1890  His appearance denoted that he had come in from the back townships to see the Carnival.
  • 1926  Mr. B. a native Canadian told Mrs. Jameson that not one person in seventy, in the back townships, could read or write.
  • 1957  A grandson of Gilles Stone . . . removed from "the front" to "the back townships" . . . .