Canadian
adjective
of Canada or its people.
trans-Canadian
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a word derived from
Canadian.
Example Sentences
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Janis Joplin on the Festival Express tour The film-makers found reels of footage from the Monterey and Woodstock festivals, as well as the trans-Canadian Festival Express tour with the Grateful Dead and the Band.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2015
Seventy-seven-year-old Jim Walpole of Defiance fell Thursday in Toronto while on a trans-Canadian trip.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2013
It was 1881 when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a crisply argued paper in Science in 1964, Haynes drew attention to the correlation between the birth of “an ice-free, trans-Canadian corridor” and the “abrupt appearance of Clovis artifacts some 700 years later.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
A great trans-Canadian railway has joined the ambitious province of the Pacific slope to the provinces of old Canada with stitches of steel across the Plains.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
