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When and how were free land distributed in Canada in the 1800s to newly British settlers?

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When and how were free land distributed in Canada in the 1800s to newly British settlers?

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Typically the arrangement applied to Immigrant labour supplied to either the Provincial Government or a commercial enterprise, the Hudson Bay Company for example. Below is a transcript of a Hudson Bay Company poster circa 1840. “An appeal to stout and active men who are sought for opportunities for adventure in the Northern Provinces and the Great Lakes of Ontario Able bodied men as hired hands and trappers for the Hudson Bay Company Good hands can expect up to fifteen pounds a year in wages besides a sufficient allowance of Oatmeal, Molasses and other food equally good and wholesome. Each person will engage for a period of three years at the end of which he shall be brought home to Scotland free of expense unless he shall choose to remain in the settlements of the Company, whereas he shall receive Thirty acres of good land No man shall be hired unless he can bring satisfactory character and good conduct Particularly honesty and sobriety. Expert boatmen will receive particular encourag

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