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parkland(s)

• 1 n. the lightly wooded, grassy belt of rich land lying between the open prairie and the northern forests in the three Prairie Provinces; also, similar but smaller areas of lightly wooded rolling grasslands, as the Peace River country.

  See also: park (def. 3)  park belt  parkland belt  fertile belt  

  • 1907  Very soon the park lands of the north were all behind us, and the rolling, dry, illimitable plain stretched out to the horizon in front.
  • 1913  As we went on the poplar groves became more sparsely scattered over "the parklands". . . .
  • 1960  Hundreds of families abandoned their farms and . . . crowded the roads in their desperation to reach the parklands or forest belt to the north. . .

• 2 n. lands set aside for public parks, national parks, etc.

  • 1957  Every major Canadian city knows it should be providing 10 acres of parkland for every 1,000 people.
  • 1958  We do, of course, sometimes set aside tracts of country for recreation and so forth--and we say these are in perpetuity; but this phrase only seems to mean until the parkland is needed for logging, or mining, or to take the waters backed up from some great dam.
  • 1966  The excellent camping facilities in Ontario's many parklands need more selling--and at a higher price.