DCHP-1 Online
le Grand Pays Cdn French, North 
originally among fur traders and now generally in the North, the settled, civilized parts of Canada; civilization.
See also: outside ((n.)) (def. 1a)
- 1892 The old man was keen to hear about the doings of the white man in the Grand Pays, as the half-breeds indefinitely term the whole of the outside world.
- 1909 The land we have come from is known as "Outside" or "Le Grand Pays."
- 1892 The old man was keen to hear about the doings of the white man in the Grand Pays, as the half-breeds indefinitely term the whole of the outside world.