DCHP-3

Prairie Bubble

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Quotations

1900
The bursting of the prairie Bubble of 1881-82, the issue of transferable scrip to the half-breeds, the payment of huge Government subsidies to railway companies in land instead of cash?for all these blunders a penalty has been imposed.
1952
The Prairie Bubble. A term used to describe the inflation of western land values, followed by collapse in 1882.