DCHP-2

cottage country DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — chiefly Ontario, Manitoba, Geography

  several areas, mostly in central Canada, that are popular for summer vacations.

  Type: 5. Frequency — While cottage country is found in a number of countries (see Chart 1), the term is more than five times as frequent in Canada than elsewhere. As shown in Chart 2, the term is not limited to Ontario, but is most frequent in Manitoba, followed by Ontario and Quebec. The term is virtually unknown in British Columbia and Newfoundland. In Ontario, cottage country refers to the Haliburton, Muskoka and Kawartha regions if one is from Toronto, and the Rideau lakes area if one is from Ottawa.
  Boberg (2005: 42) shows data on the names for vacation homes, according to which the terms vary between cottage (Ontario, Quebec, Maritimes - roughly corroborated by Chart 2), camp (NW Ontario and New Brunswick), chalet (Quebec), cabin (Western Canada) or simply the lake (Manitoba).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "cottage country", which is marked "Cdn".

  See also: cottage  chalet (meaning 2)  Muskoka chair