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Dominion Land Act 1872
Building a Home
Colonization Companies
Icelanders
Surveying the Land
100
1872
What is, when was the Dominion Land Act passed?
100
Sod Houses
What is, all around the Prairie land?
100
Large amount of land to individuals or companies
What is, did the government sell?
100
Icelanders
What is, one of the earliest groups of people to take up homesteads in the prairies of Canada
100
36 Sections of 640 Acres
What is, how many sections was each township divided into?
200
The Homestead Act
What is, another name for the Dominion Land Act?
200
A hole, dug deep in hillside and Sod was build around it?
What is, a 'Dugout'?
200
A person or company
What is, who would find and bring the group of settlers?
200
400 Icelanders docked out of the ports of Quebec fleeing volcanoes in their home country of Iceland
What is, what happened in 1874?
200
10 km
What is, the length of each township?
300
Any adult, or head of family could claim quarter section of land.
What is, did the Dominion Land Act state?
300
Insects and Mice
What is, creatures that lived in the Sod Homes, because of the Sod?
300
Spend their time dancing, sports, or boating on Cannington Lake.
What is, how did the Cannington people spend their time?
300
Promises of freedom, citizenship and tracts of land.
What is, The Canadian Government give to the Icelander?
300
1869
What is, when did the government send surveyors to the West?
400
1. Pay the $10 Registration fee 2. Live on land for six months each year 3. Build a house and change the land
What is, the four conditions to have ownership of the house in 3 years?
400
House and Barn
What is, the mark of Prairie Frontier?
400
Horses
What is, did the Cannington people race, after they build the racetrack?
400
Smallpox struck the colony and many died but yet the colony survived.
What is, what happened in 1876?
400
To measure and map the western land
What is, the purpose of the surveyors going to the West?
500
To encourage settlement of Praire Provinces
What is, why was the Dominion Act Land passed?
500
Worked together to build a Sod House and Barn and also, welcomed the new families in the community
What is, a 'Sodding Bee'?
500
Set a colony of well-to-do English Families in southern Saskatchewan
What is, did Captain Pierce want to do?
500
Another early group of homesteaders, they were seeking religious freedom. They were Russian.
What is, The Mennonites?
500
Four equal quarter-sections
What is, how was a section divided?