Dominion lands policy
By: [by] Chester Martin. Edited and with an introd. by Lewis H. Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Lewis Herbert, 1917- ed.
Series: The Carleton library, no. 69
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Land grants -- Canada -- History.; Public lands -- Northwest, Canadian -- History.
Description: The administration of public lands in the three prairie provinces of the Canadian West was the most important activity of the federal government for sixty years after the acquisition of the region in 1870. Martin studies the policies devised by politicians and officials for the disposal of public lands, and the granting of concessions to individuals and business interests for exploiting the other natural resources of the area.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [248]-250.
Originally published in 1938 in a volume which also included A. S. Morton's History of prairie settlement.
Includes index.