company town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a settlement or town built by and maintained by a company for its employees, sometimes in a remote part of the bush.

Quotations

1929

. . . never losing sight of land until we reached Ocean Falls, a regular company town.

1962

Even today the Gaspe company town of Murdochville . . . is a scabrous word to Quebec labor unions.