colonization railway

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway line built to facilitate the colonizing of unsettled areas; also, the company building or operating such a line.

Quotations

1883

A meeting of the share holders of the . . . Colonization Railway was held in Montreal on Wednesday.

1933

The superintendent . . . lent his aid in handling traffic, this being fundamentally a colonization railway.