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colonization company Hist. 
a company acting as an agent in bringing colonists to their destination in Canada.
- 1880 Colonization Companies may serve for the North-West the same purpose, as immigration agents, that has been served by the Railway Companies in the Western States.
- 1909 Large grants of land to colonization companies and others have been a feature of the settlement of some counties in this Province.
- 1935 Colonization companies were given grants [in Saskatchewan in the early 1880's].
- 1880 Colonization Companies may serve for the North-West the same purpose, as immigration agents, that has been served by the Railway Companies in the Western States.