land board

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Upper Canada, a body of officials appointed in each district to receive and report upon applications for land.

Quotations

1789

There being then no land Board instituted those tickets were merely to give the Settlers the satisfaction of knowing the number of their lots.

1833

It was proposed to establish a land board in each District, for the accommodation of persons having claims for grants of Lands in this province.

1904

The courts for the western district . . . were held at Detroit, where the land board also sat . . . .