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From: Leah Raney <>
Subject: HOMESTEAD SECTIONS EVEN?
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:58:37 -0600


Under Dominion Land Grants I found 22 grants where my grandmother's family
homesteaded... Of those 22, 8 sections were odd numbers. Could there have
been a later law? This was about 1905 or just before in Saskatchewan. - Leah
in Texas

Linda Neely wrote:

> How certain are you of the homestead location? Under the Homestead Act
> only even-numbered sections were made available for homesteading. Odd
> numbered sections (with some exceptions) were granted to the CPR. So
> for your family to have section #15 they possibly bought it from the
> CPR rather than homesteaded. The CPR did not have much use for the
> grants of land they received that were as far north as this one is and
> so sold or traded for land along the right-of-way in the south of the
> province.
> There are lots of Reimer descendants in Sask. most came here by way of
> Manitoba. Here is a site that might be of interest to you:
> http://www.mmhs.org/index.htm
>
> Linda
> Regina
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> >

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