DCHP-2
back township DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a township or settlement remote from or isolated from centres of population; formerly, one of the back settlements of Upper and Lower Canada.
See also: back concession
- 1805 Many of the back townships have been intentionally omitted, as my design was transcribed.
- 1890 His appearance denoted that he had come in from the back townships to see the Carnival.
- 1926 Mr. B. a native Canadian told Mrs. Jameson that not one person in seventy, in the back townships, could read or write.
- 1957 A grandson of Gilles Stone . . . removed from "the front" to "the back townships" . . . .
- 1805 Many of the back townships have been intentionally omitted, as my design was transcribed.