emigrant depot

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a building equipped to shelter immigrants newly arrived in the country.

Quotations

1821

An Emigrant House . . . has been provided at Cobourg for the accomodation of settlers--and will no doubt be found very useful.

1871

l hope the Dominion Government has made the unused barracks at London and elsewhere, habitable as emigrant depots.

1876

The former boat had some 800 hungry Mennonites, who immediately took possession of the N.P. emigrant house. . . .