DCHP-1 Online
colonization highway 
a road built into an unsettled area to make it accessible for settlement.
See also: colonization road
- 1933 It is related that the British Columbia delegates, during negotiations with the Dominion Government, urged Cartier to the effect that a railway be built across the prairies to the foot of the mountains, and that a colonization highway be laid out thence to the Pacific Coast.
- 1933 It is related that the British Columbia delegates, during negotiations with the Dominion Government, urged Cartier to the effect that a railway be built across the prairies to the foot of the mountains, and that a colonization highway be laid out thence to the Pacific Coast.