Title Dominion lands policy / Chester Martin ; edited and with an introduction by Lewis H. Thomas

Published Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, [1973] ©1973

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 259 pages) Series The Carleton library ; no. 69 Carleton library ; no. 69 Contents 1. The Surrender of Rupert's Land -- 2. 'The Purposes of the Dominion" -- 3. Railway Land Grants: The C.P.R. -- 4. Railway Land Grants: Colonization Railways -- 5. Railway Land Grants: Policies And By-Products -- 6. School Lands -- 7. The Free Homestead System: The Background in the United States -- 8. The Free-Homestead System: The British Provinces -- 9. The Free-Homestead System for "Dominion Lands" -- 10. Pre-Emptions and Purchased Homesteads: The Passing of the Free-Homestead System -- 11. Swamp Lands, Grazing, Timber, Mining and Water Rights -- 12. "The Natural Resources Question": The Transfer of 1930 -- 13. Federal Policies and Provincial Problems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-250) and index Subject Land grants -- Canada -- History. Public lands -- Northwest, Canadian -- History. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Thomas, Lewis H. (Lewis Herbert), 1917-1982, editor ISBN 077358319X (electronic bk.) 9780773583191 (electronic bk.)

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