DCHP-3

ribbon farm

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a long, narrow holding of land fronting on a river, such as the farms of old Quebec along the St. Lawrence River and those in the Red River Settlement.

See: river lot(def. 2),strip farm

Quotations

1962
The Kildonan settlers were given ribbon farms on the west bank of the Red River, north of the earlier arrivals. Each farm had a narrow frontage on the river and ran back two miles, with a two-mile-wide strip of pasture and hay land behind for the use of all.