DCHP-3

local improvement district

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Prairie Provinces

a district administered by provincial-government officials because it is too thinly populated to merit a municipal government of its own.

Quotations

1899
A settler in the Dunmore district . . . states that the feeling among the few settlers in Township 12 is "very strongly against having this township by itself made into a local improvement district."
1954
In 1908 a Local Improvement District was formed. We notice in the school records that a Local Improvement District election was held in Sarcee Butte School on Jan. 10, 1910.
1958
He was speaking to . . . about 50 representatives of the County of Grande Prairie, municipal districts and local improvement districts.
2

a form of local government having appointed municipal boards of limited powers.

Quotations

1958
There are several special forms of local government, usually with limited powers, though in some cases with full municipal powers, but with appointed rather than elected boards. Such are the New Brunswick local improvement districts, Ontario Police villages and improvement districts, etc.