a company holding extensive blocks of land for sale to settlers.
- 1841  The vacant land in the vicinity of this river, belongs to the Land Company; but farms can be obtained without difficulty by persons who are desirous of purchasing either cleared or unimproved.
- 1916  Optimistic promoters of mining companies, land companies, gas and power companies never got much encouragement from Macdonald.
- 1952  Other railway systems also received large grants of land which they offered for sale or disposed of to land companies which sold them to settlers.