Alberta Land and Property Records: Difference between revisions

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==Online Records==

*[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930/Pages/land-grants-western-canada.aspx Search: Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930] Library and Archives Canada

*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9209/ Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930], index and images ($)

*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9210/ Canada, Soldier Homestead Grant Registers, 1918-1931], index and images, at Ancestry.com ($)

*[http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ Hudson's Bay Company Archives]

**[https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/search_hbca.html Resources]

**[https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/name_indexes/index.html Name Indexes]<br>

After the British arrival in Canada, approximately half of the province of Alberta, south of the Athabasca River drainage, became part of Rupert's Land which consisted of all land drained by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay. This area was granted by Charles II of England to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1670, and rival fur trading companies were not allowed to trade in it. In 1870, the newly formed Canadian Government purchased Rupert's Land. Lands were sold by the HBC prior to 1870.<ref>"Alberta", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta, accessed 7 December 2020.</ref>

:[http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ Hudson’s Bay Company Archives]<br>130 - 200 Vaughan Street <br>Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1T5<br>Telephone: 204-945-4949<br>Email: [mailto:archives@gov.mb.ca archives@gov.mb.ca]

These application files provide some of the following information:

*Age

*Place of birth

*Marital status is noted but the spouse is not usually named

*Naturalization record if available (only Canadian citizens could receive title to a homestead)"<ref>"Homestead Records", Provincial Archives of Alberta, https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/explore-paa-research-resources/homestead-records, accessed 7 December 2020.</ref>

*[https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/explore-paa-research-resources/homestead-records Alberta Homestead Records] Instructions for finding record and ordering copies.

*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60865/ Alberta, Canada, Homestead Records, 1870-1930], index and images ($)

*[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930/Pages/land-grants-western-canada.aspx Search: Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930] Library and Archives Canada

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[https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/ '''Provincial Archives of Alberta''']<br>8555 Roper Road <br>Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5W1 <br>Telephone: 780-427-1750 <br>Email: [mailto:paa@gov.ab.ca paa@gov.ab.ca]

===Alberta Genealogical Society===

*[https://www.abgenealogy.ca/ab-homestead-index-page '''Alberta Homestead Index'''] The Alberta Homestead Database was compiled by AGS volunteers transcribing the Applications for Alberta Land Patents, 1885‒1897, Alberta Homestead Records, 1870‒1930 and Alberta Homestead records, post-1930.

===Métis Scrip===

*[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/metis/metis-scrip-records/Pages/essay-foundation-new-beginning.aspx '''Essay: Métis Scrip - "The Foundation for a New Beginning'''], Library and Archives Canada

*[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/metis/metis-scrip-records/Pages/find-scrip.aspx#b '''How to Find Scrip Records''']

"In 1870 under the Manitoba Act, all Métis families were promised grants of land meant to extinguish any aboriginal rights to the landscape that they might hold as an indigenous culture. Basically, the grants allowed and required them to relocate from lands formerly owned by the Métis to a new homestead of their choosing.  

Money and land scrip could only be redeemed at face value in the purchase of homestead lands through a Dominion lands office."<ref>"Essay: Métis Scrip - "The Foundation for a New Beginning", Library and Archives Canada, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/metis/metis-scrip-records/Pages/essay-foundation-new-beginning.aspx, accessed 7 December 2020.</ref>

*[https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/archives-cpr-land-sales/ '''Glenbow Archives CPR Land Sales database'''] Sales of agricultural land by the Canadian Pacific Railway to settlers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1881 to 1927.

*[https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/archives-cpr-land-sales/ '''Glenbow Museum''']<br>130 - 9th Avenue SE <br>Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3<br>Telephone: 403-268-4100 <br>Telephone - Library Reference Desk: 403-268-4197 <br>Library Email: [mailto:library@glenbow.org library@glenbow.org] <br>Telephone - Archives Reference Desk: 403-268-4204<br>Archives Email: [mailto:archives@glenbow.org archives@glenbow.org]

*[https://www.alberta.ca/land-titles.aspx '''Land Titles'''] Find, change, register and learn about land titles in Alberta.

More recent records are held in land title offices.

:'''Edmonton Land Title Office'''<br>John E. Brownlee Building <br>10365 - 97 Street <br>Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3W7 <br>Telephone: 780-427-2742 <br>Email: [mailto:lto@gov.ab.ca lto@gov.ab.ca]<br><br>

==For Further Reading==

For greater detail on how land was divided, identified, obtained, and granted, see:

*[[Alberta Land Records (National Institute)]]

*[[Alberta Research Using Land Records (National Institute)]]

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