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Reserve(s) Hist. 
n. 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: Clergy Reserves
- 1836 He believed the Church of Scotland had ever as good a right to the Reserves as the Church of England.
- 1836 He believed the Church of Scotland had ever as good a right to the Reserves as the Church of England.