Title: Homesteading Days
Description: ***All of the papers in Eastern Canada were carrying ads about the cheap homesteads in Western Canada.*** ''You can file on 160 acres of land, if you are twenty-one years of age, for ten dollars. You are required to live on it for six months to a year, build a house of some kind, and break at least forty acres of land, that can be put into crop. ***If you meet all of these requirements, in three years, you can get the Title for your quarter section of land, then you can pre-empt on another quarter.''***

Ernie Brown had read that ad in the papers many times. So he saved his money, and as soon as he was twenty-one, he would go west and look the country over. Surely he could find a homestead, and build himself a shack, and break forty acres of land in three years. He was more interested in raising cattle, than he was in grain. So when he was twenty-one and did go west, he found just the place he wanted, beside a small river.
Subjects: Christian, Clarence A. Boon, Farm life, Prairie Provinces, Biography, Non-fiction, Literature, Book, Books, Story, Stories, Novel, Hardcover, Newspaper ads, Age of 21, Come West, Young MAN, Cheap homesteads, Homestead, Homesteads, Homesteading, Con artists making extra bucks. Driven by cart at $0.50 a mile to see available areas, Break 160 acres of Land, Build home on land, Forty acres of crop, Back breaking, Hard work, Long hours, Minimum 3 years, Title for 1/4 section of 160 Acres, Opportunity to buy 1/4 more, 80 acres, reliable water source scare
Places: Ontario, Hudson Bay River, South East Saskatchewan, Northern Saskatchewan
Time periods: Early 20th Century