DCHP-3

land company†

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a company holding extensive blocks of land for sale to settlers.

Quotations

1841
The vacant land in the vicinity of this river, belongs to the Land Company; but farms can be obtained without difficulty by persons who are desirous of purchasing either cleared or unimproved.
1916
Optimistic promoters of mining companies, land companies, gas and power companies never got much encouragement from Macdonald.
1952
Other railway systems also received large grants of land which they offered for sale or disposed of to land companies which sold them to settlers.