FREE LAND! - 160 Acres for $10 Until 1900 the CANADIAN WEST remained vastly underpopulated and under utilized and so the federal government began an intensive settlement program and marketing campaign offering cheap land and social and religious freedom. The homesteading of Canada was an organized and decisive movement which populated Canada and then managed the immigrants so they settled the areas where production of goods(mainly wheat, and other grains) was needed to fuel the burgeoning industrialization of central Canada and populate the western area of Canada in order to quell the United States claims at the time to the area. The HOMESTEAD System was developed for the three Prairie provinces in Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. It covers 200 million acres and is the Worlds Largest Serving grid laid down in a single integrated system and led to the creation of 1.25 million homesteads. And decisively to the creation of Canada a...
The race to populate Canada began in the 1600s. It reached its height in the late 1800s and early 1900s, then was abruptly stifled with the onset of WWII. These are the stories of those people. The story of the brave adventurous individuals that boarded ships looking for the promise of free land & untold wealth. These are Canada's stories....