Homesteading at Wilcox
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Author/Creator
S. T. St. John
Saskatchewan History, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter, January 1949, pp. 23-27
Description
An account of the experience of traveling to Canada from the United States in 1901, of staking a homesteading claim, and of settling on the prairies; documents the settler practice of purchasing Métis land scrip and then filing it for the purpose of European settlement. Includes some discussion of Jock Henderson, the executioner of Louis Riel.
Entire Issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 23.