Produced by Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) CANADA WEST 160 ACRE FARMS in WESTERN CANADA FREE ISSUED BY DIRECTION OF HON. W. J. ROCHE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, OTTAWA, CANADA. 1914 [Illustration] LAND REGULATIONS IN CANADA All public lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are controlled and administered by the Dominion Government through the Department of the Interior. The lands disposed of as free homesteads (Government grants) under certain conditions involving residence and improvements, are surveyed into square blocks, six miles long by six miles wide, called townships. When these improvements are completed and duties performed, a patent or crown deed is issued. THE FOLLOWING IS A PLAN OF A TOWNSHIP N SIX MILES SQUARE +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ W | | | | | | | | | | | | | E +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------+ S [Illustration: Showing how the land is divided into square sections and square quarter-sections. Also showing how the sections in a township are numbered.] Each township is subdivided into 36 square blocks or sections one mile square and containing 640 acres and numbered from one to thirty-six. Each section is divided into four quarter-sections of 160 acres each. The four quarters of the section are described, as the northeast, the northwest, the southeast and the southwest quarter.