Carleton Library Series : Dominion Lands Policy.
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Montreal : Palo Alto :
McGill-Queen's University Press, Ebrary, Incorporated [distributor]
1973
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Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PREFACE""; ""1. THE SURRENDER OF RUPERT'S LAND""; ""2. ""THE PURPOSES OF THE DOMINION""""; ""1. Canada and the Transfer""; ""2. Historic ""Purposes""""; ""3. Parallels and Precedents""; ""4. The Surveys""; ""5. Half-breed Grants and Hudson's Bay Reserves""; ""3. RAILWAY LAND GRANTS: THE C.P.R.""; ""1. A Kingdom for a Horse""; ""2. Origins in the United States""; ""3. A New Technique""; ""4. Two Other Analogies""; ""5. A ""Pacific Railway"" for Canada""; ""6. Trends and Tendencies""; ""7. The C.P.R. Charter""
- ""4. RAILWAY LAND GRANTS: COLONIZATION RAILWAYS""""1. Branch Lines and Local Patriotism""; ""2. The C.P.R. Subsidiaries""; ""3. The Canadian Northern and Subsidiaries""; ""4. The Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad""; ""5. RAILWAY LAND GRANTS: POLICIES AND BY-PRODUCTS""; ""1. Railways and Settlement""; ""2. Sales and Prices""; ""3. C.P.R. Land Policies""; ""4. Colonization Railways and Land Companies""; ""5. The End of the Railway Land Grant System""; ""6. SCHOOL LANDS""; ""1. Dominion Policy at its Best""; ""2. Precedents in the U.S. and ""Canada""""
- ""3. School Lands in Dominion Policy""""4. School Lands Policy and Administration""; ""7. THE FREE HOMESTEAD SYSTEM: THE BACKGROUND IN THE UNITED STATES""; ""1. Analogies and Contrasts""; ""2. Sectionalism and the Frontier""; ""3. The Homestead Act of 1862""; ""4. The Homestead Act in the United States""; ""8. THE FREE-HOMESTEAD SYSTEM: THE BRITISH PROVINCES""; ""1. Contrasts and Complications""; ""2. The Maritime Provinces""; ""3. Land Policy in the Canadas""; ""4. Free Homesteads and ""Dominion Lands""""; ""9. THE FREE-HOMESTEAD SYSTEM FOR ""DOMINION LANDS""""
- ""1. Free Homesteads Taken for Granted""""2. Homesteads and Railway Land Grants""; ""3. The Staple of Land Policy""; ""4. The System at Work: Early Defects""; ""5. The System at Work: Later Results""; ""10. PRE-EMPTIONS AND PURCHASED HOMESTEADS: THE PASSING OF THE FREE-HOMESTEAD SYSTEM""; ""1. Tendencies towards Larger Holdings""; ""2. The Passing of the Free Homestead""; ""11. SWAMP LANDS, GRAZING, TIMBER, MINING AND WATER RIGHTS""; ""1. Swamp Lands""; ""2. Grazing Lands""; ""3. Timber""; ""4. Forest Reserves and Parks""; ""5. Mining Policy on Dominion Lands""; ""6. Water Rights""
- ""12. ""THE NATURAL RESOURCES QUESTION"": THE TRANSFER OF 1930""""1. Poverty and Provincial Rights, 1870-1905""; ""2. New Provinces and Subsidies ""in Lieu of Lands""""; ""3. The Transfer of 1930: The Manitoba Settlement""; ""4. The Transfer of 1930: Alberta and Saskatchewan""; ""13. FEDERAL POLICIES AND PROVINCIAL PROBLEMS""; ""1. Federal Alienations: Free Homesteads and Land Sales""; ""2. Land Sales versus Free Grants""; ""3. The Railway Land Grant System""; ""4. The Free-Homestead System""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""NOTE ON THE EDITOR""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""
