N
SIX MILES SQUARE
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
W | | | | | | | | | | | | | E
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
S
[Illustration: Showing how the land is divided into square sections and
square quarter-sections. Also showing how the sections in a township are
numbered.]
Each township is subdivided into 36 square blocks or sections one mile
square and containing 640 acres and numbered from one to thirty-six.
Each section is divided into four quarter-sections of 160 acres each.
The four quarters of the section are described, as the northeast, the
northwest, the southeast and the southwest quarter.
=Who Is Eligible.= The sole head of a family or any male eighteen years of
age or over, who is a British subject or who declares his intention to
become a British subject; a widow having minor children of her own
dependent upon her for support.
=Acquiring Homestead.= To acquire a homestead applicant must make entry in
person, either at the Dominion Lands Office for the district in which
the land applied for is situate, or at a sub-agency authorized to
transact business in such district. At the time of entry a fee of $10
must be paid. The certificate of entry which is then granted the
applicant gives him authority to enter upon the land and maintain full
possession of it as long as he complies with the homestead requirements.
=Cattle Provision to Secure Homestead.= With certain restriction, stock
may be substituted in lieu of cultivation.
=Residence.= To earn patent for homestead, a person must reside in a
habitable house upon the land for six months during each of three years.
Such residence however, need not be commenced before six months after
the date on which entry for the land was secured.
=Improvement Duties.= Before being eligible to apply for patent, a
homesteader must break (plough up) thirty acres of the homestead, of
which twenty acres must be cropped. It is also required that a
reasonable proportion of this cultivation must be done during each
homestead year.
=Application for Patent.= When a homesteader has completed his residence
and cultivation duties he makes application for patent before the Agent
of Dominion Lands for the district in which the homestead is situate, or
before a sub-agent authorized to deal with lands in such district. If
the duties have been satisfactorily performed patent issues to the
homesteader shortly after without any further action on his part, and
the land thus becomes his absolute property.
=Timber and Fuel.= An occupant of a homestead quarter-section, having no
suitable timber of his own, may obtain on payment of a 25-cent fee a
permit to cut 3,000 lineal feet of building timber, 400 roof poles, 500
fence posts, 2,000 fence rails. Homesteaders and all bona fide settlers,
without timber on their own farms, may also obtain permits to cut dry
timber for their own use on their farms for fuel and fencing.