prairie provincen.
/ˈprɛːrɪ ˌprɒvɪns/, U.S. /ˈprɛri ˌprɑv(ə)ns/, Canadian English /ˈpreri ˌprɒv(ə)ns/ Canadian.
1. With the. The province of Manitoba. Now historical.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of
north-west1682
down east1817
Atlantic provinces1855
prairie province1873
prairie provinces1878
mainland1901
maritimes1926
Palliser triangle1934
Newfie1942
sand-hill1949
Near North1952
1873 Sessional Papers Canada (2nd Parl., 1st Sess.) III. No. 7. 21 With the opening of railway communication with Manitoba, it is safe to say that a splendid future, awaits the Prairie Province.
1881 Progress (Rat Portage, Ont.) 12 Nov. 4/1 The editor..proposes..to get up a huge excursion of marriageable girls in Ontario to proceed early next spring to the prairie province.
1916 O. D. Skelton Day of Sir W. Laurier 97 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’.
1957 W. L. Morton Manitoba ix. 206 Manitoba was the ‘Prairie Province’ where the pioneer had only to sink his share in the sod and run his furrow as he pleased.
2. In plural. The provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Also in singular: any one of these provinces.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of
north-west1682
down east1817
Atlantic provinces1855
prairie province1873
prairie provinces1878
mainland1901
maritimes1926
Palliser triangle1934
Newfie1942
sand-hill1949
Near North1952
1878 Sask. Herald (Battleford) 23 Sept. 2/4 In our Prairie Province the nomination day is fixed for the 19th, and the elections for the 26th of the same month.
1907 Manitoba Morning Free Press 14 Jan. (heading) Population of the Prairie Provinces.
1908 M. A. Brown My Lady of Snows 221 The majority ruled, but the minority clamored from the prairie provinces.
1926 B. M. Stewart Canad. Labor Laws & Treaty iii. 95 The well-known Industrial Disputes Investigation Act was passed in 1907, after a coal strike that caused a midwinter fuel famine in the Prairie Provinces.
1994 Toronto Star (Nexis) 14 May j18 The other two accidents..happened in Ontario and a Prairie Province.
2005 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 13 Oct. a10 There are no aboriginals sitting on high courts in the three Prairie provinces.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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