DCHP-3

mill-grant land

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.

Quotations

1958
By 1873 . . . [they] were squatting on mill-grant lands along False Creek.