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	Homestead Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The intent of the Homestead Act was to grant land for agriculture.
		A common scheme was for an individual acting as a front for a large cattle operation to file for a homestead surrounding a water source under the pretense that the land was being used as a farm.
		The act was later copied with some modifications by Canada in the form of the Dominion Lands Act, and similar acts, usually termed the Selection Acts were passed in the various Australian colonies in the 1860s, beginning in 1861 in New South Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homestead_Act (660 words)

	Dominion Lands Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dominion Lands Act was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the settlement of Canada's prairie provinces.
		The act also launched the Dominion Lands Survey, which laid the framework for layout of the prairie provinces that persists to this day.
		Also, the first version of the act limited the free land to areas more than 20 miles (32 km) from a railway, much of the land closer generally having been granted to the railways at the time of construction to assist financing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dominion_Lands_Act (494 words)

	Canada - Public Lands
		Dominion Lands are situated in Western Canada and what is known as the Railway Belt in British Columbia, and are dealt with under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act.
		Application may be either at the land agency for the district in which the land is situate, or at the office of a sub-agent authorised to transact business in the district, and must be made by the applicant in person, although in certain cases application by proxy is permitted.
		These lands are administered by the Department of the Interior and are disposed of by sale at public auction, the sum realised being invested and the interest paid to the government of the province within which the lands are situated, towards the support of the schools.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/canada-45.shtml (2066 words)

	Dominion Lands Act - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It was closely based on the American Homestead Act.
		The act sold 65 hectares (160 acres) for the extremely low prices of $10 to any farmer who agreed to cultivate at least 12 hectares (30 acres) and build a permanent dwelling within three years.
		Overall about 478 000 square kilometres of land were virtually given away by the government under the Dominion Lands Act.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Dominion_Lands_Act (435 words)

	Dominion Lands Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Dominion Lands Act was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the of Canada's prairie provinces.
		The act also launched the Dominion Lands Survey which laid the framework for layout the prairie province that persists to this
		The act went through many changes and and was finally done away with in 1918 when a new system was set designed to help World War I veterans settle more easily.
	www.freeglossary.com /Dominion_Lands_Act (596 words)

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		However, under sections 31 and 32 of the Act, the Canadian government was obligated to confirm possession and titles of land the Metis held upon the transfer of the province to Canada, and to grant an additional 1.4 million acres of land to the children of the old Metis settlers.
		The terms of the Dominion Lands Act may be read as reflecting a Parliamentary understanding that Metis title outside the original province of Manitoba had not been extinguished, and therefore required a specific extinguishing section for the remainder of the North-West Territories in the Dominion Lands Act.
		31 and 32 of the Manitoba Act are not self-executing.
	www.constitutional-law.net /metis.html (18721 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dominion Lands Act
		An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U.S. customary units.
		The Dominion Land Survey is the method used to divide most of western Canada into one-square-mile sections for agricultural and other purposes.
		Also the first act limited the free land to areas more than 20 miles (32 km) from a railway.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dominion-Lands-Act (749 words)

	REGINA v. ST. CATHARINES MILLING AND LUMBER COMPANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Lands ungranted upon which Indians are living at large in their primitive state within any Province form part of the Public Lands, and are held as before Confederation by that Province under various sections of the British North America Act.
		The comprehensiveness of this Act is manifested by 12 Vic.
		Indians and the trusteeship and management of the lands reserved for their use and benefit, shall be assumed by the Dominion Government, and a policy as liberal as that hitherto pursued by the British Columbia Government shall be continued by the Dominion Government after the union.
	library.usask.ca /native/cnlc/vol02/374.html (8043 words)

	WRIGHT v. BATTLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Plaintiffs claimed that in Decem- ber, 1903, at the Dominion Land Agent's office at Wapella, the defendants took out of the plaintiffs' possesion two scrips relating to 160 and 80 acres of land, to which plain- tiffs were entitled, and they asked that same might be re- turned.
		Assuming that the Dominion Parliament could restrict the assignability of a scrip, the statute and the Orders in Council only prohibit the recognition by the Commissioner of assignments and regulate the procedure to be adopted by him.
		In favour of that contention it is argued that the issue of the scrip by the Dominion Govemment was in the nature of a bounty to the half-breed personally, and that he had no power to assign or transfer the same.
	library.usask.ca /native/cnlc/vol03/659.html (1444 words)

	Canada Lands Surveys Act
		Where commission deemed to be held (2) Every person who holds a valid and subsisting certificate as a Dominion topographical surveyor or a valid and subsisting commission as a Dominion land surveyor is deemed to hold a commission granted under this Act.
		The Minister shall cause surveys to be made of Canada Lands on the request of a minister of any department of the Government of Canada or a Commissioner administering the Lands and may do so in any other case in which he deems it to be expedient.
		Effect of new plan (7) The new plan referred to in subsection (6) shall, after confirmation thereof by the Surveyor General, be deemed to be the official plan under this Act of the lands thereby affected and shall be substituted for all, or corresponding portions of all, former official plans of the lands thereby affected.
	www.nrcan.gc.ca /dmo/spcb/acts/canlnd_e.html (2780 words)

	ST. CATHARINES MILLING AND LUMBER COMPANY v. THE QUEEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Indians had a right to occupy the land, to cut the timber and to claim the mines and minerals found on the land, and the land descended to their children; the only restric- tion upon their title was as to alienation; that might be called a limited or base fee.
		The objection that the interests of the public would be prejudiced by attributing the ultimate crown title in Indian lands to the Dominion instead of to the province, seems to imply that this dispute is to be considered as a continuance of the contest respecting the provincial boundaries of Ontario and Manitoba.
		The Dominion Government, asserting that it was a portion of the territory of Manitoba over which they had jurisdiction (for, by arrangement, all the crown lands and timber in Manitoba were reserved to the Dominion), entered into negotiations with the Indians for the extinguishment of their title.
	library.usask.ca /native/cnlc/vol02/441.html (11498 words)

	Authority to Settle Metis Claims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The importance of this piece of legislation in the history of Metis and Western settlement cannot be underestimated.
		Indeed, the Dominion Lands Act established the framework for immigration and settlement in Manitoba and the Northwest; its regulations shaped Western settlement and determined the look of the land (Lehr 1996).
		Moreover, the statutory recognition of Metis Aboriginal title first expressed in the Manitoba Act was extended to the Metis of the Northwest through enabling provisions of the Dominion Lands Act (SC, 42 Vict.
	www.ualberta.ca /NATIVESTUDIES/scrip.3/flowcharts/DLA.html (208 words)

	Canada Lands Surveys Act
		(7) The new plan referred to in subsection (6) shall, after confirmation thereof by the Surveyor General, be deemed to be the official plan under this Act of the lands thereby affected and shall be substituted for all, or corresponding portions of all, former official plans of the lands thereby affected.
		(b) persons whose interests in land affected by the special survey and plan are, in the opinion of the Minister or the Commissioner, affected by his decision under this section to an extent that differs in any way from the extent to which they were affected by the declaration referred to in paragraph 38(3)(b).
		Where an appeal is taken from the decision of the Minister or the Commissioner, the court hearing the appeal may confirm, amend, alter or vary the decision of the Minister or the Commissioner and the Surveyor General shall accordingly confirm, amend, alter or vary the plan.
	laws.justice.gc.ca /en/L-6/text.html (2728 words)

	Canada Lands Surveyors Act
		The Council shall appoint a Registrar for the purposes of this Act.
		Wherever under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any contract, lease, licence or other document, a power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by the former Association, the power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by the new Association.
		Nothing in this Act affects the status of any person who, immediately before the day on which this section comes into force, was an officer or employee of the former Association except that, as of that day, the person is an officer or employee, as the case may be, of the new Association.
	lois.justice.gc.ca /en/L-5.8/text.html (4982 words)

	Dominion Land Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The DLS is the dominant survey method in the Prairie provinces, but it is also used in British Columbia along the Railway Belt (near the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway), and in the Peace River Block in the northeast of the province.
		As part of the deal that transferred Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, the Bay retained five per cent of the "fertile belt" (south of the North Saskatchewan and Winnipeg rivers).
		The remaining quarter sections were available as homesteads under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act, the federal government's plan for settling the North-West.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Dominion_Lands_Survey (1376 words)

	Sask 2005 New Home Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Dominion Lands Act of 1872, combined with legislation to stimulate immigration, strongly encouraged homesteaders in Saskatchewan.
		In the 1880s, the newly constructed Canadian Pacific Railway brought settlers to farm the rich land.
		The earliest regulations under which settlers could obtain free lands were passed by Order-in-Council in 1871 and the first Dominion Lands Act was passed in 1872.
	sask2005.ca /facts/skfactsresults.asp?ID=647 (84 words)

	Map of southern Alberta showing the disposition of homestead lands, 1913 - The Canadian West - Exhibitions - Library ...
		Before the introduction of the Dominion Lands Act, western lands were held in common by First Nations.
		In 1872, the Dominion Lands Act introduced the concept of private land ownership and established procedures by which land could be bought and sold like any other commodity.
		It also shows the extent to which the new Euro-Canadian ideology had completely changed the nature of the western landscape in only four decades.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /canadian-west/052920/05292062_e.html (117 words)

	Dominion Lands Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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