{"id":1810,"date":"2018-01-31T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:30:57","slug":"land-grants-to-settlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/land-grants-to-settlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Grants to Settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"pop-up-title wp-block-heading\">Land Grants to Settlers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/detail-of-G_3500_2217_1902_R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/detail-of-G_3500_2217_1902_R-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/detail-of-G_3500_2217_1902_R-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/detail-of-G_3500_2217_1902_R-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/detail-of-G_3500_2217_1902_R-1024x879.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A map promising free land to settlers in &#8220;New Ontario.&#8221; Courtesy of the University of Toronto Map and Data Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When the government of Canada and Ojibwe leaders signed Treaty 3 in 1873, the Rainy River District was incorporated into the province of Ontario as Crown Land. In 1886, the Ontario provincial parliament passed the Rainy River Free Grants and Homesteads Act, legally adopting the land surveys of the district, and allowing the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to appropriate any land in the region for free grants to settlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This legislation built on an 1860 Upper Canada Public Lands Act. A man, or a woman if she was the sole head of a family, could be given a free plot of land by the province, with the expectation that they would increase its productivity through farming and settlement. Settlers who had already been occupying land were granted full private property rights over the area they had \u2018improved\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All surveyed land in the Rainy River District was made available to settlers for either homesteading, mining, or timber. Even Indian Reserves could be declared subject to the Public Lands Act. Land was considered unoccupied unless it was converted into natural resources, farmland, or real estate. 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