"CONTENTdm"@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway"@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway Company"@en . "Agriculture"@en . "Colonists"@en . "Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection"@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway Company"@en . "Norman, Henry"@en . "2017-10-10"@en . "[1889?]"@en . "Pamphlet describing people, agriculture and climate of Manitoba."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chungtext/items/1.0356794/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " T\Vt ?RMR\ES\n^Y\0 \i\VE OH THEN\nA Sketch of the Province, its People, Agricultural Capabilities\nand Climate.\nBy HENRY NORMAN\nSpecial Correspondent of the Pa.ll Mall Gazette, London, and Montreal Star\n\u00C2\u00BB :\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . , ./'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0v\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 [ \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ; ; ; '\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 - Tl)c ftaims of ilMpifcoba a\nHi)d wl)o liw ot) 5l)ett).\nDeloraine\u00E2\u0080\u0094Journeying Across a Prairie\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Servant Difficulty\u00E2\u0080\u00941\nA Few Specimens of Successful Emigrants. '\nFrom the Montreal Star Special Correspondent.\nT is difficult to explain to you the extreme interest taken by everybody here\nin the journey upon which you have sent me, but I must attempt to do so\nin order to exhibit the reason for the break in the continuity o\u00C2\u00A3 my letters.\nThe fact of an English correspondent being here who does not simply rush across by\nrail and then send home an account chiefly imaginative, but is prepared to take all the\ntime and trouble necessary to see everything of importance, is so striking and so\nwelcome to Canadians, especially to those who are in any sense of the word still\npioneers, that they second his efforts so cordially and completely as to embarrass him\nnot a little. My experience throughout has been that no sooner have I set foot in a\nnew town than a dozen people turn up at the hotel, each intent on carrying me off then\nand there to investigate the aspect of the country in which he is most interested; the mayor or some other public official sends a polite invitation to drive with him\nthrough the neighborhood ; the railway places every facility at my disposal, and as a\nresult of all this, it becomes the most difficult of tasks to hide one's self for a sufficient\nperiod to write a letter. No sooner had I returned to Winnipeg to conclude this series,\nthan I found it necessary to leave immediately, in order to have the advantage of the\ncompany of several particularly well informed persons and officials over the next part\nof my trip. Consequently, it is useless to date this letter from anywhere, because I\nhave no means of knowing when or where it may be finished.\n77 tj T^/>1i^t1^1 f\/> the terminus of the southern branch of the Canadian Pacific\nJ IV (^Vlv.I-vlllyv) Railway in Manitoba, my experience of the genuine prairie\nbegan. Until one has visited the Canadian and American West, Nature has only two\ngreat impressive aspects\u00E2\u0080\u0094when she takes the form of sea or mountains. After a\njourney like this, however, the prairie has to be added to these, and one's first sight of it\nis in every respect as memorable as one's first glimpse of the ocean or the Alps. It is\na sensation, however, difficult if not impossible to describe. One feels one's self to be\nthe centre or focus of a kind of indescribable vastness or emptiness. One's house, or\none's sleigh, or one's own person projects from the surface of the earth in complete\nsolitude. There is simply nothing else but surface. Life on the prairie must be a\nrealization of the mathematician's illustration of existence in two dimensions of space.\nIf the day is dull and the sun happens to be obscured, one may travel for hours without\n2\n- - noticing the least difference in what must be called, for want of a better term, the\nlandscape, in any direction. The trail, whether it is wheel-marks on the grass or\nsleigh-marks in the snow, is lost sight of 20 yards ahead, and one passes on and on\nuntil the journey becomes almost dream-like, and the jingle of the bells in front grows\nas weird as the imagination of the Polish Jew. By-and-by one ceases to talk to one's\ncompanion, and, as the powerful little \"Montana Cross\" horses are trained to trot for\nfifteen or twenty miles without stopping, there is nothing except the occasional\nappearance of a wolf or prairie chicken to break the extraordinary monotony.\nI shot a good number of these prairie chickens, and in queer places sometimes.\nMr. Whyte told me that a day or two before my trip with him he was dictating to his\nsecretary in his private car on a siding, when he looked up and saw a chicken on the\ntrack twenty yards away, \"Fred,\" he said, \"get your gun, and we will have it for\ndinner.\" The gun was fetched, the door cautiously opened, the chicken shot, handed\nto the cook, and two hours afterwards was on the table. Naturally it is very difficult\nto find one's way on the prairie in the absence of a regular well beaten trail, but few\npeople would imagine the extraordinary performances of a \"tenderfoot\" trying to get\nfrom one place to another. If he attempts to strike a bee line for himself, he probably\nends the day a few miles behind the point from which he started; if he is more wary,\nand guides himself by the sun, he invariably walks round and round in increasing\ncircles. How the man experienced in prairie craft, which is wholly different from\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 3 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nwood craft, gets along, he is quite unable to tell, but without compass or map, or\nanything beyond a pigeon-like instinct, he goes straight from point to point, perhaps\nhundreds of miles apart. There are the farms to guide the stranger, it may be said,\nbut a farm on the prairie consists to the eye in winter of nothing but a little log house.\nIn most cases there is no attempt whatever to fence the land, and when the snow\ncovers the stubble there is not a trace of husbandry beyond occasional hay-stacks,\nwhich at a few miles off look like sparrows or crows. Curiously enough the contrary\nis true, for small objects close by appear to be large ones a long way off, and it is the\ncommonest experience to start out for what you take to be a farm house and find it a\nbit of rail fence, or to drive towards what looks like a barn and see it fly away as you\napproach. Hospitality is a right, not a virtue, in these far off climes. When you\nhave driven perhaps 30 miles, and mid-day with its corresponding hunger has come,\nyou simply make for the first house you see, unhitch your horses and make them\ncomfortable in the stable, and then walk into the kitchen and ask for dinner without\n| so much as \"By your leave.\" Whatever the house affords is spread out before you,\nand if you are a stranger you offer to pay, and the offer is generally accepted, especially\nif the house is on a frequented trail and half way between two towns. At our mid-day\nrest we found only the young wife of the settler, a woman of perhaps 25 years, and as\nshe had cooked for a dozen men at breakfast time (they had come over from other\nfarms to help her husband do his threshing), and as she would have to cook for them\nagain at supper time, she had nothing whatever prepared, and we were reduced to\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 4 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 make a substantial, though indigestible meal upon large quantities of bread and\nmuch-boiled tea. The horses fared better, and in half an hour we were jogging along\nagain, and did not stop till nightfall found us at the little town of Souris, or, more\nprettily, Plum Creek, half way between Deloraine and Brandon.\nTJ (T^^llAIt^h^) TT^tVSlIlT ^ ^en(^ *n Toronto had given me a letter of\nM M/aljliUJJa l^alljlly. introduction to Mr. and Mrs. Kirchoffer, the\nmember for the district in the Provincial Legislature, assuring me that a visit would\nbe a remarkable experience and that I should find myself the guest of \"the most\ndelightful and wittiest of women.\" The superlative, as Emerson used to say, is the\nweakest form of speech, but my visit to Plum Creek was an oasis of charming home\nlife and literary talk in the desert of continuous travel and politics. If I could only\nrepeat half the things Mrs. Kirchoffer told me about life on the prairie, they would\nmake a capital book. I hope she will do it herself some day. I must try and remember\nsome of them higgeldy-piggeldy. One day, several of her husband's political friends,\nincluding the Minister ot: the Interior, were sitting with them, and half in earnest\nand half to tease him she pretended to find life on the prairie quite unbearable^\nand pictured its discomforts and its privations for an educated woman fond of good\ncompany, in a distressing manner. \" My dear,\" said her husband, chidingly, and\nwishing to give the conversation a more cheerful tendency, \"you will admit at least\nthat there may be worse places than Manitoba.\" \" Richard,\" she replied, \" I hope you\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 5 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 L\ndon't think I am an infidel.\" Mrs. Kirchoffer keeps no servant for the simple reason\nthat there are none to be had. They come out from home knowing absolutely nothing,\nreceiving wages of $15 and $20 a month, saving this for two or three months, because\nthere is nowhere to spend it, and then get married just as certain as Christmas or\nMidsummer comes. The last servant she had, came to Mr. Kirchoffer one day with\na pod of peas in her hand and the question \"Sure, sor, and how will I get them out of\nthat?\" on her lips. In six months she had become an excellent servant, when she\nmarried a newly-arrived farm hand, who had just saved enough to take up a quarter\nsection for himself. A little while afterwards Mrs. Kirchoffer met the husband and\nasked him why he had not brought Elly to call upon her as she had promised to do.\n\"Sure, ma'am,\" he said, \"I have only got a buckboard, and she says she won't make\ncalls till I can take her in a spring wagon.\" So Mrs. Kirchoffer had to make the first\ncall, and discovered her former servant with a beautiful little house, dressed like a\nlady, \"and she gave us a gorgeous tea, and everything that heart could wish for, and I\nsaid to her husband, \ Bad cess to you, Paddy, I wish that you had never set eyes on\nher.\" A little while afterwards there was a fancy ball at Plum Creek, and Elly\ncame to Mrs. Kirchoffer (in the spring wagon) to consult her as to whether her\ncomplexion and figure would show to better advantage as \" Mary, Queen of Scots,\" or\nas \"Night and Morning.\" Mrs. Kirchoffer's washerwoman, again, is a lady named\nConnolly. One day she sent for a carpenter to do some repairs in the house, but he\ncould not come for several days and explained that he had been occupied in providing\n-6 \u00E2\u0080\u0094\n* \"Mrs. Connolly, late of Cork,\" with a south bay window in her bouse for the flowers.\nA few years ago Mrs. Connolly lived at home in a hovel with the pig. I asked this\ncarpenter, a very intelligent Irishman, why on earth more of his countrymen and\nwomen did not come out here, and why he and others who had done so well did not\nwrite home and tell them of\n% Dew \u00C2\u00A7JofW agd its Cfca^s. ^9ffl|*g\nThey do not believe us entirely,\" and I found out afterwards that there is a great deal\nof truth in the assertion. The imagination of poor people at home is inadequate to\nbelieve the stories of the prosperity of their friends here. I may add, as one of the\npleasant chances of round the world travel, that at Mrs. Kirchoffer's request I have\nwritten to Father Murphy, of Bodyke, asking him to arrange for Annie Hamilton to\ncome out in Mrs. Kirchoffer's service. Hamilton carried my camera for me during the\neventful weeks of the Bodyke evictions, and when I left refused any payment, only\nasking that if ever I had the opportunity I would do something for his daughter.\nShe will have a very happy home here as long as she wishes, and if she does not marry\nwell and have a happy home of her own bye and bye, she will be literally the one\nexception to the scores of examples of her class that I have met with here and heard\nof. If she could persuade a dozen of her friends to come with her, so much the better\nfor them all. Winter on the prairie Mrs. Kirchoffer bewails, but in summer it is\nglorious, when covered with millions of flowers, and the birds sing to each other\n-7- .1:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 i >\nthrough; the grass, and everything is green in the beautiful sunshine. Then to hang\nout. the; clothes, she says, is a real privilege,\n;\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB\" :al I have rambled on just as one's horses jog over the prairie, till there is no\nspace left for the serious matters of\nIn the 70 miles drive from Deloraine to\nEwtt)ii)g afd \u00C2\u00A3ti)igpaMoi).\nBrandon, and during the two days I\nspent with Mr. Kirchoffer, going from farm to farm, and picking off chickens by the\nway, I did not come across a single man who admitted that he was doing badly. No\ndoubt there are plenty of settlers thereabouts who have failed to realize even the more\nmoderate of their hopes of success in the new world, but 1 did not meet them. On the\nother hand, I did meet and talk with scores of men thoroughly prosperous in every\nway.; They all tell much the same tale, and I cannot add anything to the mere notes\nof their names and circumstances and achievements, which I took on the spot. Here\nare half a dozen, and I have no hesitation in declaring them to be typical of hundreds,\nif not thousands of others:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWm. Wenman, from Kent, farmer, Plum Creek ; came 1881 ; capital, about\n$1000 ; took up homestead and pre-emption for self and two sons, 960 acres in all; has\nover 8,000 bushels wheat this year; three teams of horses worth $1200; eight colts,\nworth $1000; cattle, worth $500; implements, etc., $1000. His real estate at present is\nm% at teast $8000.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00948-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0- H. Selby, from Leicester, office clerk, 23 years old, came 1883, took up\nhomestead and pre-emption ; capital nil; has this year 1200 bushels wheat, some oats\nand barley; yoke cattle and implements worth $400 ; real estate worth $1200. (This\nis a worker.)\nMichael Creedan, carpenter, from Cork, came 1882 with wife and six children,\narrived at Plum Creek in d-^bt $400; has now good plastered house and two lots in\nSouris town ; 160 acres good land ; four cows in calf, three heifers, pigs and fowls ; no\ndebts; real estate worth $800 ; cattle worth $300.\nDan Connolly, plasterer, from Cork, came 1883 ; brought out wife and seven\nchildren; has now good plastered house in Souris town worth $600; cash at least\n$500; no debts.\nJames Cowan, Irish, arrived in Manitoba 1882 without a dollar; hired out\nuntil he could earn enough to buy a yoke of oxen; owns now 320 acres, of which 200\nare under cultivation, comfortable frame house, two teams of horses, eight cows, and\neverything necessary for carrying on a large farm; also a wife and two children; has\n9000 bushels of grain this year.\n-9 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 .\nStephen Brown came out in 1882; was hired out till 1885; saved enough to\nbuy a team of horses and make payments on land;\n13ncsko Tiand iw 1XX ^ and had his first crop in 1886; got his brother\n431 viVv JLLvlIyvl 11/ lOO^J to come out, who also had a team and bought\nland alongside, so that they worked together ; have each 160 acres and good house and\nstock; raised the second year 7,000 bushels of grain.\nMorgan and Thomas Powell, Welsh miners, came in 1882, $400 capital; last\nyear brought out their wives and families, whom they had left behind; have each 320\nacres, good houses, horses and cattle ; have each about 4000 bushels this year.\nPhillips Brant, a Guernsey carpenter, $1000 capital, has 320 acres, 60 head\nof cattle; and three grown-up sons settled within four miles, all on their own farms of\n320 acres and raising large crops.\nDonald Sutherland and Thomas Stewart came from Scotland in 1882;\nbought each a yoke of oxen and went to work breaking their land, their wives\nmeanwhile erecting sod houses, in which the families lived for two years. They are\nnow independent; good frame houses, a quantity of stock and large crops.\nWe cannot do better than close this pamphlet with a few of the many letters\njust received from actual settlers. Is there any other known country where such\nresults can be obtained?\n10 -\n-, Kemnay, January 16th.\n\" I take great pleasure in giving a correct statement of the crop I had on my farm,\nwhich is situated on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, seven miles west of the\ncity of Brandon. I had 155 acres of wheat, from which the total yield the past season was\n6,840 bushels. One piece of 45 acres of summer fallow gave 2,340 bushels, being an average\nof 52 bushels per acre, and 100 acres averaged 45 bushels per acre. I had also 45 acres of oat\nwhich yielded 3,150 bushels, an average of 70 bushels per acre. Off 6 acres of barley I had\n387 bushels. I planted about f of an acre potatoes and had 225 bushels good dry mealy\npotatoes. The yield of roots and garden vegetables was large and of good quality. In\nconclusion I would say that previous to coming to Ontario, Canada, I farmed in one of the\nbest agricultural districts of Germany, and after coming to Canada I farmed twelve years in the\ncounty of Waterloo, Ont. I removed to Manitoba in March, 1884; that summer I broke 190\nacres, off which I reaped in 1885 a fine crop of wheat fully as good as this year. My two sons\nhave farms joining mine and their crops yielded equally as large as mine.\n\" I must say that farming has paid me better in this province than in Ontario or\nthe Fatherland. (Signed,) Christan Senkbeil.\"\nFrom J. R. Neff, Moosomin District, N. W. T.\n\" Range 30 and 31, township 14, 4 miles from station. Came to country, 1883,\nand settled in present location. Amount of capital $12,000. Acreage now owned, 4,000.\nUnder crop in 1887, 600 acres, present capital $40,000. Yield per acre 1887, 30 bushels\naverage. Livestock, 14 horses.\n- ii \"1 am pleased to give my experience since I came to this country; my success has\nbeen far beyond my expectations. I am fully convinced for extensive farming, wholly grain, or\nmixed farming, it cannot be surpassed.\n\"1 think Moosomin district is equalled by few and surpassed by no other point in\nManitoba or the North West Territories.\n\" Moosomin is a first class grain market and is growing rapidly in importance.\"\nPatrick Buckley came out in 1882; has worked on a farm, hired, ever since;\nhas $1500 in the bank.\n\" W. Govenlock\u00E2\u0080\u0094S. 27, T. 11, R. 23, near Griswold. Had 60 bushels of wheat\nper acre on 5 acres, and 37 bushels per acre on 250 acres.\n\" Samuel Hanna\u00E2\u0080\u0094S. 7, T. 10, R. 22, near Griswold. Had an average of 40\nbushels of wheat per acre on 250 acres.\n\"John Young\u00E2\u0080\u0094S. 1, T. 10, R. 23. Had 65 bushels of wheat from one acre.\n\" Alex Johnson\u00E2\u0080\u0094Near Elkhorn. Had an average of 14 bushels wheat per acre on 14\nacres.\n\"Geo. Freeman\u00E2\u0080\u0094Near Elkhorn. Had an average of 371 bushels of wheat per\nacre on 50 acres.\n\"Thos. Wood\u00E2\u0080\u009410 miles north of Virden. Had an average of 63 bushels of\nwheat on 5 acres. (315 bushels of wheat from 5 acres.)\n\" Rich. Tapp\u00E2\u0080\u0094South of Virden. Had an average of 51 bushels of wheat per acre\non 20 acres.\n\"Thos. Bobier\u00E2\u0080\u0094Half mile north of Moosomin. Had 40 acres of wheat, averaging\n38 bushels to an acre.\n\" J. R. Neff\u00E2\u0080\u0094Three miles north of Moosomin. Had 115 acres of wheat, averaging\n37 bushels per acre.\n\" G. T. Cheasley\u00E2\u0080\u0094Four miles north-east from Alexander. Had an average of 45\nbushels per acre on 100 acres of wheat.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 12 \u00E2\u0080\u0094\n, \"A. Nichol\u00E2\u0080\u0094Four miles north-east of Alexander. Had 150 acres wheat,\naveraging 40 bushels per acre.\n\"H. Touchbourne\u00E2\u0080\u0094Four miles north-west of Alexander. Had an average of 40\nbushels per acre on 100 acres of wheat.\n\" W. Watt\u00E2\u0080\u0094South-west of Alexander. Had 80 acres wheat with an average of 40\nbushels per acre.\n\"Robt. Rogers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Near Elkhorn. Had 10 acres of wheat averaging 45 bushels peracre/\nDear Sir, Alexander, Manitoba, November 19th, 1889.\nHaving been asked by you to give an account of how I like this country,\nI must say that I am well pleased that I came here. I came from the county Wellington, near Drayton; on the 9th day of November, 1880, I arrived in Winnipeg. I am\nnow over 9 years in the country and I am satisfied if I had stopped in Ontario for\n30 years I could not have been as well off as I am to day, as I had very little to start\nwith\u00E2\u0080\u0094$800. I have sown now eight crops and have only had frost slightly in 1885\nand 1888. 1 will give you the yield of my crops in the different years. I had eight\nacres of wheat in 1882 that yeilded 300 bushels, average of 371 bushels per acre ; in\n1883 had an average of 32 bushels off34 acres; in 1884 had 30 bushels off65 acres;\nin 1885 had 32 bushels per acre off 80 acres ; in 1886, a very dry season, an average\nof 18 bushels per acre; in 1887 I had 4,500 bushels of wheat off 100 acres sown, an\naverage of 45 bushels to the acre; in 1888 had an average of 28 bushels to the acre;\nthis year, 1889, off 140 acres sown, I had 2,300 bushels, an average of about 16 bushels\nper acre. My oats, in the different years, have yielded from 40 to 60 bushels per acre.\nI have always had good potatoes ; this year my root crop was not very good\non account of the dry weather. I usually grow turnips to feed my cattle through the\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 13 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ,\nwinter. I keep an average of 10 to 15 head of cattle, and make a rule to sell 3 or\n4 each year.\nI now have 11 head of cattle and 10 horses and colts; my stock is worth at least\n$1,500 ; implements worth $800; my buildings cost me $1,500 or more. I own 712\nacres of land, have 275 broke or under cultivation, and to make a long story short, as\nI said, I am well pleased with the country and am out of debt.\nYours very truly. GEORGE CHEASLEY.\nDear Sir, Oak Lake, May 27th, 1889.\nI have been here eleven years and have never had a bushel of frozen wheat,\nnor any other kind of grain, and as for all other kinds of vegetables, they can be\nproduced to perfection. Two years ago I exhibited at Oak Lake cabbages weighing\n36 lbs. each ; onions weighing 1 lb. each; potatoes from 2\u00C2\u00A7 to 4 lbs.; beets from 9 to\n14 lbs. and turnips 22 lbs. I should think that immigrants would not delay a moment\nin coming to a country that can produce vegetables of that enormous size, without the\nuse of manure of any kind. At any rate they should come and see it. The C. P. R.\ngives you a good chance to go over it. This is the time for you. Come ! Do not wait\nany longer, for in a few years all the land will be taken up for a hundred miles west.\nI came to Oak Lake in preference to Dakota and Montana, because this country is\nfar ahead of anything I ever saw across the line, and I am to-day still more convinced\nthat Manitoba and the Northwest will surpass anything ever seen for mixed farming,\nand I know that if you will only take my advice you will never be sorry.\nIf you want further particulars, write to me personally, and I will make it\nmy duty to answer you immediately. AMABLE MARION.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 u \u00E2\u0080\u0094 REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF LANDS\nOP THE\nCANADIAN - PACIFIC - RAILWAY - COMPANY\nThe Canadian Pacific Railway Company offer for sale some of the finest Agricultural Lands in\nManitoba and the Northwest. The lands belonging to the Company in each\ntownship within the Railway belt, which extends twenty-four\nmiles from each side of the main line, will be\ndisposed of at prices ranging\nJPJROiVf 02.SO PER ACRE UjPWAJROS.\n(These regulations are substituted for and cancel those hitherto in force.)\nODJBJieUkKS OF JE^AYJ^B^IVOT\nIf paid for in full at time of purchase, a Deed of Conveyance of the land will be given ;\nbut the purchaser may pay one-tenth in cash, and the balance in payments spread over nine\nyears, with interest at six per cent, per annum, payable at the end of the year with each\ninstalment. Payments may be made in Land Grant Bonds, which will be accepted at ten per\ncent, premium on their par value, with accrued interest. These bonds can be obtained on\n.application at the Bank of Montreal, or at any of its agencies in Canada or the United States.\nAll sales are subject to the following general conditions :\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n1. All improvements placed upon land purchased to be maintained thereon until final\npayment has been made.\n2. All taxes and assessments lawfully imposed upon the land or improvements to be\npaid by the purchaser.\n3. The Company reserve from sale under these regulations, all mineral and coal lands ;\nand lands containing timber in quantities, stone, slate and marble quarries, lands with water-\npower thereon, and tracts for town sites and railway purposes.\n4. Mineral, coal and timber lands and quarries, and lands controlling water-power, will\nbe disposed of on very moderate terms to persons giving satisfactory evidence of their intention\nand ability to utilize the same.\nLiberal rates for settlers and their effects will be granted by the Company over its Railway.\nDetailed Prices of Lands and all information relating thereto can be obtained on application to the Land Commissioner,\nCanadian Pacific Ry.t Winnipeg. I\nL\nAll even numbered sections excepting 8 and 26 are open for homestead entry.\n* e^jv:t:ry\nEntry may be made personally at the local land office in which the land to be taken is\nsituate or if the homesteader desires he may, on application to the Minister of the Interior,\nOttawa, or the Commissioners of Dominion Lands, Winnipeg, receive authority for some one\nnear the local office to make the entry for him.\n* DUTIES *\nUnder the present law, homestead duties may be performed in three ways:\n1. Three years' cultivation and residence, during which period the settler may not be\nabsent for more than six months in any one year without forfeiting the entry.\n2. Residence for three years within two miles of the homestead quarter section and\nafterwards next prior to application for patent residing for three months in a habitable house\nerected upon it. Ten acres must be broken the first year after entry, 15 acres additional in the\nsecond, and 15 in the third year ; 10 acres to be in crop the second year, and 25 acres the third year.\n3. A settler may reside anywhere for the first two years, in the first year breaking 5, in\nthe second cropping said 5 and breaking additional 10, also building a habitable house. The\nentry is forfeited if residence is not commenced at the expiration of 2 years from date of entry.\nThereafter the settler must reside upon and cultivate his homestead for at least six months in\neach year for three years.\nmay be made before the local agent, any homestead inspector, or the intelligence officer at\nMoosomin or Qu'Appelle station.\nSix Months' Notice Must be given in Writing to the Commissioner of Dominion Lands by a Settler of his Intention Prior\nto Making Application for Patent.\nINTELLIGENCE OFFICES are situate at Winnipeg, and Qu'Appelle Station. Newly\narrived immigrants will receive at any of these offices information as to the lands that\nare open for entry, and from the officers in charge, free of expense, advice and assistance in\nsecuring lands to suit them.\nAll communications having reference to lands under control of the Dominion\nGovernment, lying between the eastern boundary of Manitoba and the Pacific Coast should be\naddressed to\nHE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Ottawa, oi THE COMMISSIONER OF DOMINION LANDS, Winnipeg, Man\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 "@en . "Advertisements"@en . "Pamphlets"@en . "CC_TX_194_012"@en . "10.14288/1.0356794"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Box 194"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. 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