n. an ill-starred colonizing venture conceived by the Rev. I. M. Barr, an Anglican clergyman who recruited some 2,000 persons in the south of England to establish a settlement in 1903 in the vicinity of the present Lloydminster, Sask.
1916  They with the Doukhobors . . . and the celebrated "Barr Colony," were the Western problem . . . in Canada.