CANADIAN LAND SYSTEM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 1 June 1880, Page 2

CANADIAN LAND SYSTEM.

The following sketch of the Oana« dian land system occurs in a letter to the New Zealand Times, by a Mr George Sain: — "I will proceed to show what the laud law of the latest of all British settlements is, merely premising that it is founded upon tbe combined experience of Upper and Lower Canada, Sew Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, British Columbia, and the vast territories {formerly under tho Hudeon Bay Company, collectively known as the Dominion of Canada. By the Dominion Lands Act free grants of land are made to every male or female head of family, on condition that they at once erect a residence on the land and live on it six months in the year, and that year by year they bring an increased area under cultivation. Manitoba' is the J ' last offahoot of that enormous territory, and was admitted into the Confederacy in 1870. By its land la.w

every child of eighteen -veers old nan take up IGO acres on t,hc s;imo conditions. At the oud pf iluoo years, if these conditions have Icon c implied with, a Crown p it out is i-suyd, attd then the settler can deal with . hut-land. as. -ho likes. On rccoiviug h&**«Hrt'the settler may pre-e:ispt a further 160 aens, fur which liv must pay at the end of th co years 4s per acre, and then he may pur chuse for c&ih. 320 acres muiv, or 640 acres in all. More than this lie cunuot buy, as no person in Mani' tobu can own more than 640 aci 6s, or one square mile. In 1872 the Legislature of Manitoba passed i:i its first session a Homostead Hill, which enacts that tho farm of 1(50 acres, the house, stables, fences, furniture, tools, farm implements, one cow, two oxen, ono horse, i'uur sheep, i wo pigs, and forty da^'a provender for the above live stock, are exempt from seizure ior debt. Under such liberal terms the new province is rapidly filling up, upwartis of 20,000 souls ha^iao airivu.l that year.''