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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a town not controlled by the company whose employees make up most of the residents.
See: company town
Quotations
1964
The owner, Pine Point Mines Ltd., agreed that this should be an open town, and consequently its layout had to make the best possible use of land for phased industrial, commercial, residential, and public uses around a single-enterprise economy.