n. a milk-producing region, the produce from which comes to a specific market.
- 1950  . . . every inch of fertile alluvial soil is under cultivation . . . and thickly inhabited by dairy cattle . . . The estuary . . . supports the milkshed of Vancouver.
- 1958  The Winnipeg District Milk Producers Co-operative Association does not figure in the report since it is essentially a service type organization and does the bargaining for approximately a thousand in the Winnipeg milk shed.