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Clergy Reserves Hist. 
those lands, comprising one-seventh of each township in Upper Canada and parts of Lower Canada, reserved by the Crown in the Canada Act of 1791 for the support and maintenance of the clergy of the Church of England.
See also: Church Reserves reserve (def. 1) Reserve(s) school lands
- 1799 The Townships . . . in the Western District of this Province, are to be sold in lots of three thousand Acres each, exclusive of the Crown and Clergy Reserves.
- 1831 We are told that the Clergy Reserves, are intended only to endow the clergy of the Established Church, and that no Presbyterians or other dissenters have anything to do with them. . . .
- 1963 The new ministry [1854] at once carried the secularization of the Clergy Reserves and the abolition of seigniorial tenure, with compensation. . . .
- 1799 The Townships . . . in the Western District of this Province, are to be sold in lots of three thousand Acres each, exclusive of the Crown and Clergy Reserves.