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1n.
a subdision of a school district.
Quotations
1849
The practice is less prevalent than formerly, of forming selfish and unwarrantable designs upon the teacher on his entrance into a Section.
1871
Now it is to be hoped that the examining Boards appointed by the Sections, will inaugurate something different from this effete way of doing things.
1902
The two years of Archibald Munro's régime were the golden age of the school, and for a whole generation "The Section" regarded that period as the standard for comparison in the following years.
2†n. — Esp. West
one square mile of land (640 acres).
Quotations
1842
Many years ago the whole province was laid out in sections, and quarter sections, dividing the whole country like a "damboard."
1873, 1877
. . . the whole of the Province has been surveyed, divided off into townships, sections and sub-sections. . . .
1957
Paul owned two sections on the shores of an immense slough known as Middle Lake that lies well to the east of Saskatoon.
1963
. . . there are 36 sections to a township, so you will understand why the homesteader who cuts hay or timber in violation of certain regulations commonly boasts that the hay, or whatever it was, came off "section 37."