| 单词 | rural municipality |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrural municipality rural municipality n. (also with capital initials) Canadian (a) (in the prairies and Quebec) a usually sparsely populated municipality administered by an elected council or the provincial government; cf. urban municipality n. at urban adj. and n. Compounds; (b) (in Nova Scotia) any of 24 districts that contain incorporated cities and towns. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Canada riding1792 rural municipality1861 1861 Nor' Wester (Red River Settlement, Canada) 15 Aug. 1/4 Such was the state of things in Canada until 1847, when the Canadian Legislature passed an act (4 & 3 Vic. cap 10) to extend the municipal system to districts (now counties) and other rural municipalities. 1870 Statutes Province of Quebec 359 The by-laws made by the council of a rural municipality..are not subject to appeal to the county council. 1907 Univ. Toronto Stud. Hist. & Econ. 2 223 Nova Scotia has two cities, thirty-two incorporated towns and twenty rural municipalities. 1995 Canad. Geographic Mar. 38/2 St. Laurent is a rural municipality encompassing roughly 775 square kilometres of scrubby woodland, marshes and pastures. 2000 L. A. Sandberg & P. Clancy Against Grain i. 33 In Nova Scotia, the forest ranger system began in 1904, with the appointment of a Chief Ranger in each rural municipality. < as lemmas |
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