CANADIAN CENSUSES
Jul 27, 2021
3 minutes
The government offered the land for free to homesteaders
From the 1870s, the Canadian government sought immigrants to live and farm in the largely unpopulated prairies of the North-West Territories. This enormous region lay between the Province of Manitoba and the Canadian Rockies, and beginning in 1871 the government entered into treaties with the native peoples, or First Nations, who already lived there; this subject remains controversial because the tribes were never financially compensated.
The government offered the land
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