HIST261 Lecture Notes - Block Settlement, Urban Decay, Hutterite
25 Feb 2014
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Laying the foundations for a western wheat economy (1870-1900) Act (1872) set it up so that any man could buy 160acres of land from the government for 10$ if they agreed to some conditions: they must live on the land for. 3 years (to avoid having the same land problem as. Pei): they must build on the property, and clear a certain amount of the land. 56 million acres of land was settled this way. The hbc got 50,000 acres from the transfer around its posts and 1/20th of the fertile belt (6. 6 million acres). The school land reserves were allotted 9 million acres and the cpr got 40 miles of land on each side of the tracks. He was the minister of the interior under sir wilfrid laurier and had the good luck to be in charge when gold was discovered along the fraser river and in the yukon.
