provisional county

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a municipal unit in Upper Canada which was not qualified as a county proper but which was expected soon so to qualify.

Quotations

1958

Renfrew remained united with Lanark until 1861, when it became a provisional county, with its seat at Pembroke.

1961

In 1861 . . . the Governor General made Renfrew a "Provisional County." T. P. French . . . became provisional warden.