Quick links

wild land(s) †

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

land that has not been settled on or developed in any way.

Quotations

1791

Others of them . . . were under the necessity of purchasing land of . . . those persons claiming large Tracts under Indian Titles at the enormous price of £100 for 100 acres of wild land.

1851

The undersigned also offers . . . Wild Lands in Collingwood, Enniskillen, &c., too numerous to mention.

1918

Under stress of breaking land, erecting buildings and fences, digging wells and carrying out the endless tasks incidental to converting a piece of "wild" land into a home and a farm, the farmer was forced to forgo many of the activities that more leisure time would permit.

1967

[He] asked the government agent how much capital would be needed [in 1856] for a family to settle down on wild land in that part of the country [Renfrew, Ont.].