leave the North, the bush, to return "outside," i.e., to civilization.
- 1929  . . . where he remained for ten years . . . before coming out.
- 1938  Strange old men appear there [in Bachelors' Hall]--old servants of the Company who, after a lifetime in the interior, finally "come out" on their way home across the seas.
- 1951  Afterwards, when we had "come out" and were in Toronto. . . .