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Barr Colony
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an ill-starred colonizing venture conceived by the Rev. I. M. Barr, an Anglican clergyman who recruited some 2,000 persons in the south of England to establish a settlement in 1903 in the vicinity of the present Lloydminster, Sask.
Quotations
1916
They with the Doukhobors . . . and the celebrated "Barr Colony," were the Western problem . . . in Canada.