DCHP-3

scrip millionaire

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who speculated in land-scrip (def. 2), buying at a very low price from the halfbreeds and selling at a handsome profit to settlers.

See: land-scrip(def. 2)

Quotations

1947
But the scrip soon found its way into the pockets of the "scrip millionaires". . . .
1963
. . . some, in what are now Alberta and Saskatchewan, owned mostly by "scrip millionaires" who feared such a plan . . . would prevent them amassing more riches. . . .