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back concession 
1 a concession (def. 2), some distance removed from urban and heavily settled areas, especially one set some distance back from the St. Lawrence River and the Lower Lakes.
See also: back range concession (def. 2)
- 1791 (1905) Such as have applied for Land . . . will not go back into the back concessions to settle while there is so much waste and unoccupied land in front.
- 1885 The home we now inhabited was altogether different from the one we had left in the back concession. . . .
- 1958 . . . Mr. Stoliker states that back-concession farmers need to be told and advised what farmers should do and when
2a (often plural) any rural region.
See also: back-block concessions
- 1929 He had been absent for over a fortnight, plying his trade in the back Concessions.
- 1963 [Calgary dateline] No one had considered . . . the mood of farmers on back concessions [in Alberta]. . . .
2b Derog. in attributive uses connoting lack of sophistication, education, etc.
- 1960 Before I am accused of asking fellow socialists to drop their socialism in favour of a nebulous united front with petty nationalists and back-concession statesmen, let me say emphatically that is not my intention.
- 1963 "Here's Harkness, the only guy probably who could win a clear majority for the Conservatives in this election, if he was the leader, and he's talking like some back-concession reeve, or something."
- 1791 (1905) Such as have applied for Land . . . will not go back into the back concessions to settle while there is so much waste and unoccupied land in front.