Crown Land

noun, (in Canada and other Commonwealth nations) land owned by federal or provincial or state governments (COD); also ‘Crown reserves’

“Most farms then were like 50 acres or a 100 acres when people come to the Island to farm. Or a piece of land, most of it then probably was Crown Land back then. There isn’t very much Crown Land left today, I don’t think.”

“I remember in the forties my dad bought the extra fifty acres that takes us back to the canal from here, and it was Crown Land, and he bought it. I think that was like in the late forties he bought fifty acres for a thousand dollars.”