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LOT COLONISATION [2 records]

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Record 1 2013-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

A late 19th- and early 20th-century phenomenon, in which immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by government advertisements of "free" land. Under the Dominion Lands Policy, 160 acres cost only $10, but the homesteader had to build a house, often of log or sod and cultivate a specified area within 3 years ... In many areas a homestead had to be within 15 km of a railway to be farmed economically. ("The Canadian Encyclopedia", Vol. II, 1985, pp. 827-828).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

lot de colonisation : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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Record 2 1990-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heritage
DEF

In the West (of Canada), a parcel of public land, usually consisting of 160 acres (a quarter section, equal to about 65 hectares), granted to a settler under certain conditions by the federal government.

OBS

(From) an act of Parliament passed in 1872, in full called the Free Land Homestead Act, governing the conditions under which government land was to be settled, especially in the Canadian West.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Patrimoine
DEF

Concession de 160 acres faite par l'État (le Canada) à un colon, (habituellement dans l'Ouest), sous certaines conditions.

OBS

Ailleurs, au Canada, on aurait parlé de «concession» ou de «lot de colonisation».

Key term(s)
  • concession
  • lot de colonisation

Spanish

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