Homesteading Days

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***All of the papers in Eastern Canada were carrying ads about the cheap homesteads in Western Canada.*** ''You can file on 160 acres of land, if you are twenty-one years of age, for ten dollars. You are required to live on it for six months to a year, build a house of some kind, and break at least forty acres of land, that can be put into crop. ***If you meet all of these requirements, in three years, you can get the Title for your quarter section of land, then you can pre-empt on another quarter.''*** Ernie Brown had read that ad in the papers many times. So he saved his money, and as soon as he was twenty-one, he would go west and look the country over. Surely he could find a homestead, and build himself a shack, and break forty acres of land in three years. He was more interested in raising cattle, than he was in grain. So when he was twenty-one and did go west, he found just the place he wanted, beside a small river.

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Places: Ontario,  Hudson Bay River,  South East Saskatchewan,  Northern Saskatchewan

Times: Early 20th Century