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road allowance

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road allowance
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Canadian land reserved by the government to be used for public roads
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She explores whether there exists an identifiable indigenous film practice and the extent to which indigenous filmmakers dissociate from or adapt to standard film forms while discussing the following films: Maria Campbell's The Road Allowance People; Victor Masayesva's Itam Hakim, Hopiit; Lloyd Martell's Talker; Chris Eyre's Tenacity and Smoke Signals; Shelly Niro's Overweight with Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin; Gil Cardinal's Big Bear; and Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Decolonizing the lens of power; indigenous films in North America by Reference & Research Book News
So unsatisfactory are the replies that the next time word gets around that a stranger is riding down the road allowances or the ditches, sunburned, shabby, with a remote look in his eye, the same people rush out again to ask the same questions, always with the same result, encounter after encounter tending only to underline the difference between the fully settled, and the perpetually road-hungry--modern versions of the age-old pilgrim.
A Canadian Pilgrimage: a 20-year-old woman crosses Canada alone on ... by Butala, Sharon / Literary Review of Canada
Apparently he wanted to draw the road allowance exactly to the compass.
Amos Ansley UE by Powers, Sylvia / The Loyalist Gazette
 
 
 
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