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Virtual museum of Canada
Colonization : Canadian Expansion


Any head of household, or an unmarried male 21 years of age, can claim a quarter-section, i.e. a free homestead, as long as he lives on the land and farms it for three years. This method of land division hearkens back to the river lots of the old Red River Colony.

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