Saskatchewan Land and Property Records
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Online Records
- Saskatchewan Provincial Records, 1879-1987, Homestead Records, browsable records - at FamilySearch
- Search: Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930
- Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930, index and images ($)
- Glenbow Archives CPR Land Sales database Sales of agricultural land by the Canadian Pacific Railway to settlers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1881 to 1927.
- Canada, Soldier Homestead Grant Registers, 1918-1931, index and images, at Ancestry.com ($)
- The Hudson's Bay company's land tenures : and the occupation of Assiniboia by Lord Selkirk's settlers with a list of grantees under the Earl and the Company
- Saskatchewan Homestead Index This is a file locator database to the homestead files at the Saskatchewan Archives. It is searchable by name, location or by additional remarks. The site also gives directions for obtaining the file information once the appropriate file has been identified.
- Métis Scrip Records
Dominion Lands Act
- In 1869 Canada purchased land from Hudson's Bay Company which included the area that is now Manitoba.
- In 1872 the Dominion Lands Act was created to encourage settlement.
- Any male over the age of 21, or any female head of household, could apply for land.
- There was a $10 fee.
- The settler was granted 160 acres and had three years to clear at least 40 acres and build a permanent dwelling in order to keep the land.[1]
- Search: Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930
- Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930, index and images ($)
- Saskatchewan Provincial Records, 1879-1987, Homestead Records, browsable records - at FamilySearch
- Canada, Soldier Homestead Grant Registers, 1918-1931, index and images, at Ancestry.com ($)
- Saskatchewan Homestead Index This is a file locator database to the homestead files at the Saskatchewan Archives. It is searchable by name, location or by additional remarks. The site also gives directions for obtaining the file information once the appropriate file has been identified.
- Métis Scrip Records
For Further Reading
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