Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Dominion Land Grant to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
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- Textual record
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IHM.2020.0035
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Statement of scale (cartographic)
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April 3, 1905 (Contribution)
- Contribution
- King Edward VIII
- Place
- Ottawa (Ont.)
- Note
- The certificate is dated 1905 but it says the deal actually took place back in 1899.
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1 certificate ; 58 x 46 cm
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Folded rectangle of paper on the outside is the basics of the deal and the the inside folds out into a large certificate. The certificate is legal confirmation of a deal in which the British government gave the Canadian Pacific Railway land in Manitoba to build its railway on.
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General note
The Dominion Land Grant is to the CPR for Sections 31, 33 and 35 of Township 23, Range 19, West of 1 in Manitoba. There is no apparent local connection to Indian Head.
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B2
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- King Edward VIII (Contribution)
- Jones, Charles J. (Subject)
- Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) (Subject)
- Edward VIII, Prince of Wales (Subject)