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ranching 
1 n. West See 1958 quote.
- 1888 (1890) Calgary is the centre of the great ranching country, and one of the chief outfitting places for the mining districts.
- 1953 It was good ranching land in the early days on the arrival of the mounties . . . and the pioneer rancher of the Cypress Hills. . . .
- 1958 Ranching. The raising of livestock by grazing the native grasslands on a relatively extensive basis is confined to two large areas of Western Canada: (1) Southern Alberta together with southwestern Saskatchewan and (2) the southern interior plateau of British Columbia.
2 n. the raising of any of various animals for commercial purposes.
See also: ranch ((1)) ((v.)) (def. 3)
- 1959 Tom introduced rat ranching (muskrat, that is) to the North Country, and his workings covered 54,000 acres at Moose Lake, 320,000 acres in Saskatchewan Province.
- 1963 . . . the Canadian government was prompted to purchase, in 1929, a herd of 3,000 reindeer from Alaska to start reindeer ranching in the Canadian Arctic.
- 1965 Looking ahead, we feel the rewards of fur ranching--of all kinds--will increase.
- 1888 (1890) Calgary is the centre of the great ranching country, and one of the chief outfitting places for the mining districts.