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river lot
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a lot fronting on a river.
Quotations
1780
To be Sold by Auction . . . a River lot situate in the Lower-town of Quebec in St. Peter's Street.
1882
It is to be hoped that the government will carry out the same policy here, in the North West, as has been established in Manitoba, with regard to river lots.
2
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: ribbon farm
Quotations
1900
The long "river-lots" [were] newly clad in a silken wind-blown vesture of green. . . .
1963
Peter began the first surveys [on the Red River], dividing the land into narrow river lots, as in the old province of Quebec.