Land of the Little Sticks

noun

, Canadian.

1. the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees.

Example Sentences

Eskimos call it "the Land of the Little Sticks" because Arctic winds and bitter cold keep its stunted pines from growing beyond the thickness of a finger.

From Time Magazine Archive

He talked of the great Saskatchewan, of Peace River, and the delta of the Mackenzie, of the winter journeys beyond Great Bear Lake into the Land of the Little Sticks, and the half-mythical lake of Yamba Tooh.

From Project Gutenberg

He talked of the great Saskatchewan, of Peace River, and the delta of the Mackenzie, of the winter journeys beyond Great Bear Lake into the Land of the Little Sticks, and the half-mythical lake of Yamba Tooh.

From Project Gutenberg

Soon he would come to the land of the little sticks. 

From Project Gutenberg

Why do you linger all alone in the splendid emptiness, Scouring the Land of the Little Sticks on the trail of the caribou?

From Project Gutenberg