crown land
Noun
Meaning
land that belongs to the Crown
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About 20 to 30 people will occupy these houses which are being built on Crown land at Bay Street and on Reginald Stevens Street on the outskirts of St John’s City.
A consultant has been hired to prepare a marketing strategy for the Crown Land program, which includes 56 km. of roads on Crown land as well as the campsites.
The community forest, located on Cortes Island off the east coast of Vancouver Island, was established in 2013 and encompasses approximately 3,869 hectares of Crown land.
Land grants of crown land were made by Governors, and settlement schemes such as those of Edward Gibbon Wakefield carried some weight in encouraging migrants to make the long voyage to Australia, as opposed to the United States or Canada.
In 1721, when the Great Northern War ended, the dukes of Gottorf lost their power and their land became Danish crown land.
Liberal Leader David Swann is calling on the Stelmach government to immediately halt the sale of 16,000 acres of crown land near Bow Island.