DCHP-3

colonization company

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a company acting as an agent in bringing colonists to their destination in Canada.

Quotations

1880
Colonization Companies may serve for the North-West the same purpose, as immigration agents, that has been served by the Railway Companies in the Western States.
1909
Large grants of land to colonization companies and others have been a feature of the settlement of some counties in this Province.
1935
Colonization companies were given grants [in Saskatchewan in the early 1880's].