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colonization road Hist. 
a road built into an unsettled area to make it accessible for settlement.
See also: colonization highway settlement road
- 1855 (1957) According to a memorandum with the title "Colonization Roads in Upper Canada," signed by Andrew Russel, dated Quebec, 20 February, 1855, Gibson had been placed in charge of the roads to be constructed. . . .
- 1920 Already there are thousands of miles of colonization roads and steam railways spreading like a spider's web over a huge part of that immense forest-robed territory.
- 1961 To accomplish this, the immigration department built the famous "colonization roads."
- 1855 (1957) According to a memorandum with the title "Colonization Roads in Upper Canada," signed by Andrew Russel, dated Quebec, 20 February, 1855, Gibson had been placed in charge of the roads to be constructed. . . .