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Hist. in Upper Canada
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a parcel of land remaining after a region had been surveyed into townships, concessions, and lots of uniform size, such parcels being usually unassigned and frequently a bone of contention.
Quotations
1791
Such a direction if extended . . . throughout the Settlement will cast the whole country into Confusion, by cutting the farms . . . into small gores, or Angles, besides not agreeing to the general course of the Lake for any distance.
1821
Four hundred and twenty-five acres of Land, for sale, in a Gore between the Townships of Kingston and Earnestown, bounded on the East by the Township road, and on the north by a small lake.
1896
North Gower is one of the three gores in the County of Carleton containing about 33,000 acres.
2n.
often Gore, a specific tract of such land.
Quotations
1833
For Sale. The North West Half of Lot No. 97, in the 10th Concession, Gore of Toronto, containing 100 acres.
1853
The expression of the public is evidently in having the Gore unencumbered by buildings of any kind and that it be converted into a park, or promenade.
1909
In the old days this street was the scene of a hot contest between citizens and soldiers, when the latter extended their pine stump fence across the street and enclosed the gore in their barrack grounds.