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Originally Posted by valo403
Right, because there were no subsidies granted to farmers at the turn of the century in an effort to settle the west  |
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HOMESTEADS:
Dominion Land Grant Information
Dominion Lands Policy for settlement
*---Homesteads granted to settlers were 160 acres of land, and required a $10.00 fee for the Letters Patent. Males 18 years or older could apply or a male or female head of the family. Before receiving title to the land, they had to file evidence that they were British subjects by birth or naturalization.
Proving the land
*---Settlers had to live on their homesteads for a three year period, clearing and farming some of the land and making improvements. They had an option to purchase the quarter section next to theirs as a pre-emption, by paying the market price of the time which was about $2.00 acre. Even numbered sections were reserved for homesteads and pre-emptions, while odd-numbered sections were sold.
*--Upon recieving the Dominion Land Grant patent for a quarter section, the homesteader could apply for a pre-emption. This entitled him to purchase an additional 80 acres adjacent to the homestead at the rate of one dollar per acre. [later the rate changed to three dollars per acre]
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Trust me... nothing was free. My grandparents worked their @sses off "proving the land".
Lived in a sod shack. Endured bitter winters burning dung for fuel. Plowed the land by hand.. in many cases they didn't even have a ox or a horse to pull the plow.. The man pulled it and the wife steered the plow. Many a nite they went to bed hungry.
Today's immigrant is living a life of luxury... don't even dare to compare the two.