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1an.
in colonial times, an official of a land company who was responsible for disposing of Crown Lands for settlement.
Quotations
1827
Persons wishing to contract for Clearing and Forming a Road . . . through . . . the Canada Company's . . . Guelph Block, may inspect the plan . . . at the Warden's Office in Galt.
1841
Must the taxes be demanded by suit at law? or is the failure to pay, a forfeiture such as to warrant the Treasurer, or Warden, or A. B. or C. to declare the land lapsed?
1bn. — Hist.
in the Red River Settlement, an official having charge of the keeping of law and order on the plains, as during the buffalo hunts.
See: warden of the plains
Quotations
2n.
in Ontario, the chairman of the county council, himself a township reeve, selected for the chair by his fellow reeves on the council.
Quotations
1841
And be it enacted, that there shall be a district council in each such district as aforesaid, which district council shall consist of a warden and councillors, to be appointed and elected as hereinunder provided.
1861
The head of every county and provisional corporation is designated the warden . . . so the head of every township and village, the reeve.
1945
The elections for all councils are held annually, and each county council appoints after the election one of its number as a presiding officer, who is called the warden.
1966
His uncle . . . was a former warden of the county and in 1887 a great-uncle . . . was also a warden.
3a†n.
a government officer responsible for seeing that game laws are observed; a game warden.
Quotations
1938
The warden heard him give an unearthly scream, but he never saw him again though he searched for hours.
1955
As proof of his fitness to continue as warden he challenged the superintendent to a thirty-mile hike on snowshoes with an eighty-pound pack, guaranteeing to beat him by five miles. b. Maritimes someone employed to keep poachers from fishing in leased waters.
3bn. — Maritimes
someone employed to keep poachers from fishing in leased waters.
Quotations
1954
The lease will be sold subject to the stipulation that the lessees are required to supply sufficient wardens to protect their waters.
4n.
at certain Canadian universities, a faculty member in charge of a students' residence, students' union, etc.
Quotations
1958
Some of the students residing in the new men's residence at Queen's are shown chatting with the warden. . . .