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prairie province 
1 Hist. Manitoba.
See also: postage stamp province
- 1876 [Title]
- 1881 The editor of the Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel-Review, proposes with all the seriousness of a provincial scribe, to get up a huge excursion of marriageable girls in Ontario to proceed early next spring to the prairie province.
- 1916 The Winnipeg Board of Trade denounced the policy of "crushing and trampling upon one hundred thousand struggling pioneers of the prairie province to secure a purely imaginary financial gain to one soulless corporation."
- 1965 The Prairie Province. From the title of the book [see 1876 quote] which gave the phrase general circulation; after 1905 it was extended to include Saskatchewan and Alberta in "The Prairie Provinces."
2 one of the Prairie Provinces.
See also: Prairie Provinces, the
- 1876 [Title]