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To order a copy of these records at the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan use Collection Call Number S42, the Homestead File Number , and the legal land description for the Homestead Land Record Files. For ease of finding the land records have been sorted into numerical order of homesteads by Land Record File Number

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The Saskatchewan Homestead Index Project (SHIP) is a transcription of homestead record holdings at the Provincial Archvies. The Provincial Government of Saskatchewan managed the land titles offices, and the correspondence and forms that transpired between homesteader and the provincial land titles office are available from Saskatchewan Provincial Offices. Provincial Archives may have a file on the homesteader even if the land was not proved successfully and title not granted, or if the land was a pre-emption. The Hudson's Bay Company transferred Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories to the Dominion Goverment in 1868. Even though Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, the lands and natural resources were not transferred to provincial authority until 1930. Another search engine which finds the same records as SHIP is at the Saskatchewan Archives Board > Land Records > Search for a Pre-1930 Homestead File

For online searches of homesteads, use Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Archivia Net Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930 which is an online database of any homesteader who received their letter of patent for successfully proving their land. The Letter of Patent was granted by the Dominion Government of Canada, and a copy is available from National Archives.

Settlers had to apply to the Provincial Land Titles Office to to file Homestead forms that they were British subjects by birth or naturalization. Dominion Land Acts set out provisions and options for lands regarding 'Pre-emption', and for 'proving' up a quarter section. A Dominions Land Patent was issued if a homesteader could *---live on their homesteads for a three year period, clearing and farming some of the land and making improvements. They had an option to purchase the quarter section next to theirs as a pre-emption, by paying the market price of the time which was about $2.00 acre. Even numbered sections were reserved for homesteads and pre-emptions, while odd-numbered sections were sold.
*--Upon recieving the Dominion Land Grant patent for a quarter section, the homesteader could apply for a pre-emption. This entitled him to purchase an additional 80 acres adjacent to the homestead at the rate of one dollar per acre. [later the rate changed to three dollars per acre].

Supplement to Homestead Maps of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northern and Sourthern Alberta containing Synopsis of Regulations governing the granting of Homesteads, purchased homesteads, pre-empaions, mineral rights, grazing leases, and timber berths also Statistical information relating to Western Canada 1916.
Department of the Interior. issued from Railway Lands Branch Ottawa, Canada Great book to understand the homesteader duties in 1916!

Why were Canadian "Last Best West" homesteads created? | Where were Saskatchewan homesteads located?| When were Saskatchewan Homestead Applications Available?

This web site was made with permission from the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan. It is the intention of this site to make the land record applications available to persons with a historical or genealogical interest in this area. There are no service charges or fees for use of this map service, and use of this site constitutes your acceptance of these Conditions of Use. This page is dedicated to the free sharing of this Saskatchewan historical data. Any further use of these maps would require permission from the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan and Sask Gen Web as per copyright laws in Canada.

**Please see the complete books of the City of Saskatoon 1908-1966 Henderson's Directories at the Peel's Prairie Provinces Website

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