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1870‒1930 Homestead Project

From the Alberta Genealogical Society.

1885‒1897, Applications for Alberta Land Patents (Project)

From the Alberta Genealogical Society.

Alberta Genealogical Society - Alberta Homestead Indexes

Search 1885‒1897 Applications for Alberta Land Patents; Search 1870‒1930 Alberta Homestead Records; Search Post‒1930 Alberta Homesteads Records; Additional Land Resources.

Ancestry.com - Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930 $

Original source: Homestead Grant Registers. R190-75-1-E. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Archives of Ontario Research Guide 205 - Using the Ontario Land Records Index ca. 1780-ca. 1920

Archives of Ontario Research Guide 215 - Early Land Records from the 1780s to the 1850s

Back to the Land - A Genealogical Guide to Finding Farms on the Canadian Prairies

By Dave Obee. This new edition of Back to the Land includes: An expanded summary of land descriptions as determined by the Dominion Land Survey; maps showing townships, communities and census districts on the three Prairie provinces; an index of townships on the Prairies, providing a quick reference to the proper enumeration areas in the 1901 census, and the corresponding microfilm numbers.

British Columbia - GATOR ~ Historic Crown Grants ~ Search Form

Dave Obee's Family History Page - Finding Aid: Prairie Land Records

FamilySearch - British Columbia, Crown Land Grant Records, 1851-1874 ^FREE

These records describe the sale or transfer of specific parcels of Crown land from the provincial government to private persons and organizations. Includes Hudson's Bay Company grants.

FamilySearch - British Columbia, Crown Land Grants, 1869-1930 ^FREE

These records describe the sale or transfer of specific parcels of Crown land from the provincial government to private persons and organizations. The grants are arranged in registration number order. There are separate index volumes which cover one or more annual volumes of land grant registers.

FamilySearch - British Columbia, Crown Land Pre-emption Registers, 1860-1971 ^FREE

Pre-emptions are purchased land that has not been fully surveyed. The pre-emption registers summarize the information from the pre-emption certificates. The pre-emptions are listed in registration number order, with an alphabetical index in the back of each volume.

FamilySearch - British Columbia, Dominion Land Branch Records, 1885-1949 ^FREE

Images of various land records for British Columbia including Land Files (1885-1949); Index Maps (1910-1927); Township General Registers (1885-1930); and Homestead Grant Registers (1886-1930). The Land Files contain applications for homestead entry, applications for patents, and correspondence and registers relating to land settlement in the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block. Several indexes are included in the images.

Findmypast - New Brunswick, Canada, Land Petitions Index, 1783-1918 $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Findmypast - New Brunswick, County Deed Registry Books Image Browse $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Findmypast - Ontario, Canada- Land Settlement In Upper Canada 1783-1840 $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Glenbow Library and Archives - Archives CPR Land Sales

Records of sales of agricultural land by the Canadian Pacific Railway to settlers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta from 1881 to 1927.

Homestead Forms

Examples of some of the homestead forms available from the Provincial Archives, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Identifying Ontario’s lots and concessions

In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project

From McGill University's Rare Books and Special Collections Division. A searchable database derived from published county atlases between 1874 & 1881. Searchable by property owners' names or by location. Township maps, portraits and properties have been scanned, with links from the property owners' names in the database.