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clay belt 
a large tract of land in Northern Ontario and Quebec lying south of James Bay and north of the Laurentian Plateau.
- 1916 This railway, striking up from North Bay into the mineral region and clay belt beyond the height-of-land, was begun by the Ontario government in 1902 as a colonization road.
- 1961 B. J. Mulligan . . . was impressed by the fertility of the clay belt . . . near the present-day town of Haileybury.
- 1916 This railway, striking up from North Bay into the mineral region and clay belt beyond the height-of-land, was begun by the Ontario government in 1902 as a colonization road.