Prairie Bubble Hist.
See 1952 quote.
- 1900  The bursting of the prairie Bubble of 1881-82, the issue of transferable scrip to the half-breeds, the payment of huge Government subsidies to railway companies in land instead of cash?for all these blunders a penalty has been imposed.
- 1952  (1965)  The Prairie Bubble. A term used to describe the inflation of western land values, followed by collapse in 1882.