Canada Yearbook - 1920

656 ADMINISTBA TION
-Distribution of the Surveyed Areas in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, January 1,1920.
Manitoba.
Saskat
chewan.
Alberta.
Total.
acres.
Homestead (including military home-
8,382,000
Pre-emption and Purchased Homesteads
(1st Sept., 1908, to 20th Mar.,
1918)
Half-Breed Script, Sales, Special grants,
etc
5,089,700
Granted to Railway Companies 3,'566,997
Granted to Hudson's Bay Company.
1,196,700
School Land Endowment (1-18 of area
surveyed in sections)
1,626,000
Sold under Irrigation System
968,500
Under Timber Licenses 1
126,700
Under Grazing Leases 1
2,386,700
Forest Reserves and Parks 1
Reserved for Forestry Purposes (inside 746,300
surveyed tract) 1
973,500
Road Allowances 1
505,200
433,860
Parish and River lots
87,560
Indian Reserves
Indian Reserves surrendered
4,246,500
Water-covered lands (inside surveyed
tract) 1
5,143,300
Now available for entry (includes lands
reserved Total for surveyed soldier settlement) area 35,479,317
1 Area not available for cultivation.
acres.
27,373,200
5,779,800
2,310.800
15,177,063
3,183,200
3,938,000
76,672
1,057,600
2,869,100
5,953,700.
1,430,000
1,466,400
82,700
1,078,434
402,812
1,909,800
4,865,000
78,954,381
acres.
18,158,100
2,793,900
1,232,100
13,120,014
2,175,600
3,732,600
980,850
1,298,400
3,096,000
16,754,000
1,677,500
1,279,900
118,600
1,367,974
302,228
2,291,700
14,944,000
85,323,466
acres.
53,913,300
8,573,700
8,632,600
31,864,074
6,555,500
9,296,600
1,057,522
3,324,500
6,091,800
25,094,400
3,853,800
3,719,800
706,500
2,880,268
792,600
8,448,000
24,952,300
199,757,264
Railway Lands..—Table 7 is a record for the three fiscal years
1918, 1919, 1920 of the sales of lands by the Hudson's Bay Company
and by railway companies having government land grants. The
total sales in the fiscal year 1920 (the year ended March 31, 1920)
amounted to 1,026,157 acres at a price of $19,188,225, as compared
with 1,038,657 acres at a price of $18,148,736 in the previous fiscal
year. The 1920 prices average $18.69 per acre, as against $17.47
in the preceding year.
7.—Land Sales by Railway Companies having Government Land Grants, and by
the Hudson's Bay Company, in the Fiscal Years 1918-1929.
Companies.
Acres.
1918.
Amount.
Acres.
1919.
Amount.
Acres.
1920.
Amount.
Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian Pacific Railway
Manitoba Southwestern Colonization
Railway
Qu'Appelle, Long Lake, and
Saskatchewan Railway and
Steamboat Co
Calgary and Edmonton Railway
Company
Canadian Northern Ry. Co
Great Northwest Central Railway
Company
386,394
545,285
25,933
49,723
53,335
39,546
16,021
6,914,947
11,044,883
321,005
783,062
815,628
732,351
275,724
285,561 4,978,950 276,629 4,724,941
602,555 10,580,669 571,571 11,356,146
5,289
33,838
31,774
65,110
14,530
67,214
527,670
479,496
1,261,963
252,774
4,623
32,095
26,953
86,305
27,981
56,760
474,895
425,656
1,685,241
464,586
Total. 1,116,237 20,887,600 1,038,657 18,148,736 1,026,157 19,188,235