DCHP-3

colonization society

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a society which bought land for settlement by its members.

Quotations

1878
The Hudson's Bay Company has intimated to an Ontario colonization society that it will carry its members as passengers on the river steamboats if they will settle on the Saskatchewan.
1929
The colonization society, which made its appearance about 1850, was a prominent result.