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From: "alistair duncan" <>
Subject: Re: Dominion Land Grants
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:18:04 -0700


Debbie,

Can I ask where you got this information. I had relatives that
homesteaded in Sask. about that time.

Thanks,
Marg
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Brick <>
To: <>
Date: October 18, 1999 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Dominion Land Grants


>I have before me a certified copy of the patent for a land grant in
>Saskatchewan from 1908. The document consists of 5 or 6 8.5X13 inch
pages.
>It contains the following information:
>
>Lot/Section number
>Date of issue
>Name of applicant
>Age
>occupation
>post office address
>British subject/Naturalized
>Date of entry to homestead
>When house was built
>When house was occupied
>portion of year resided on
>When absent where you were and what you were doing (eg: other town and job
>in winter)
>other property owned in vicinity
>members of family
>acreage broken yearly
>number and kind of animals you own
>sizes and number of buildings
>minerals or quarries
>other homestead entries
>mortgages
>land registry office filed with
>statements sworn by neighbours to support your application
>
>Hope this helps
>Debbie
>in Ontario
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Beall <>
>To: <>
>Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 10:21 AM
>Subject: Dominion Land Grants
>
>
>>Hello,
>>Does anyone out there have any experience with receiving government info
on
>>Dominion Land Grants?
>>Specifically what is included in the info? All I know of my grandfather's
>>mother HELEN TIBBET(T)S, is that she died when he was quite young and he
>>spent some time living with her parents in the Regina Beach area. I have
>>found 2 Tibbetts who received adjoining land grants in that area, but I
>>don't know when (between 1870 and 1930). Will send for the info, but I'd
>>like to hear of anyone's experience with these documents as to their value
>>for further search information.
>>Thanks, Rheba in Ontario, Canada
>>
>>
>

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