SETTLEMENT IN CANADA
TWO MILLION ACRES IN 3 YEARS Approximately 2,000,000 acres in new agriculture land representing an area almost equal in size to the counties of Devon and Cornwall combined. have been broken in the past three years in those parts of Western Canadc. served by the Canadian National Railways, according to Dr. W. J. Black, the company’s director of colonisation. On a basis of 160 acres to the farm, the figures indicate that at least 12,500 new ranches have been established in the period. Settlement has been particularly rapid this year in the Peace River district of Northern Alberta, in the first three months 1,000 new settlers, with capital aggregating £200.000, took up land in this area. Between January 1 and June 30, 1929, the colonisation department of the Canadian National Railways settled 975 families in the western provinces on farms of their own, representing an area of at least 170,000 acres. This is apart from finding places for thousands of men taking up farm work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 5
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