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From: Library and Archives Canada
Described as : Land Grants to Canadian Veterans
Details : N/A
Their reference: N/A
Location : Access to Information and Privacy Office, Veterans Affairs Canada, PO Box 7700, Charlottetown, PE C1A 8M9
With the end of the First World War and the troops that would be returning from Europe in mind, Canada’s 1917 Soldier Settlement Act, and its 1919 revision, made land grants and loans available to soldiers. A person who had been in active service during the First World War and who was eligible for a free homestead entry under the Soldier Settlement Act was known as a Soldier Settler.
These records consist of single-line register entries noting applications for grants. Entries list name, homestead number, date of application, date of grant, land description, area (acreage), fee, application number, district number, list number, and remarks.
The early books also contain reference to the date of first occupancy, the expiry of term, folio general register, and patent reference number.
FURTHER:
As noted on the LAC website, there are using keywords such as RG10, "soldier settlement" and the surname of the person
LAC's mandate for the collection, care, and maintenance of materials such as these, and constant efforts aimed at improving access to them for archivists, academic researchers, the Canadian public, and people around the world will mean this online service may well exceed the Ancestry version of the same records over time.
OF NOTE: This is but one part of a vast collection, assembled over the past 140+ years, that includes the following:
- some 20 million books published in various languages, from rare artists' books and first editions
to literary classics and popular fiction;
- 250 linear kilometres of government and private textual records;
- more than 3 million architectural drawings, plans and maps, some dating back to the early 16th century;
- about 5 billion megabytes of information in electronic format, including thousands of Canadian theses,
periodicals and books available online;
- nearly 30 million photographic images, including prints, negatives, slides and digital photos;
- more than 90,000 films, including short and full-length films, documentaries and silent films,
dating as far back as 1897;
- more than 550,000 hours of audio and video recordings;
- over 425,000 works of art, including watercolours, oil paintings, sketches, caricatures and miniatures,
some dating back to the 1600s; as well as medals, seals, posters and coats of arms;
- approximately 550,000 items constituting the largest collection of Canadian sheet music in the world;
documentation related to music in Canada; and recordings on disks and records of all formats,
including piano rolls, reels and spools, and eight-track tapes;- the Canadian Postal Archives;
- textual archives for various individuals and groups who have contributed to Canada's
cultural, social, economic and political development;
- national newspapers from across Canada, from dailies to student newspapers,
and from Aboriginal magazines to ethnic community newsletters
Your host invites you to explore this public resource of enormous value in the conductof and and all family history research efforts relating to people who have lived in Canada, even if only for a short time.
This
part of their website is suggested by way of an introduction to this wealth of information.
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Some other records offered by Ancestry that may be of interest in this context as sources on this website:
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