Alberta's Homestead Sales and Land Leases

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HOMESTEADING IN CANADA

NOTE: While this map is basically correct, it is too small to show fine detail with any
extreme accuracy.

For a 20" x 33" map that is both
highly detailed and represents the
official word of the Province of
Alberta, write:

Department of Lands and Forests
Natural Resources Building
109th Street and 99th Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I NFORMATION REGARDING HOMESTEAD SALES
GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE
OF ALBERTA

Form LH 48

Revised, June 1970

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS
NATURAL RESOURCES BUILDING
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA

1. WHO MAY APPLY FOR A HOMESTEAD SALE? Any person who has reached the age of eighteen years but not the age of seventy one, who is a British subject or a Canadian citizen, or declares his inten tion of becoming a Canadian citizen, and who has resided in Albertafor a total of at least one year in the three years immediately prior to making application.

A veteran who furnishes a certificate from the Veterans' Land Act 1942 (Canada) certifying he is a veteran, may apply regardless of the residence qualifications, he may also apply for financial assistance under the same Act.

If eligible, an applicant may apply for a homestead sale comprising not more than four adjoining or cornering quarter sections of public land as a unit, or, he may apply for more than one homestead sale subject to the condition that each unit applied for is within a ten mile radius of each other unit. A husband and wife by their individual applications cannot obtain more than a total of four quarter sections under homestead sale.

If the applicant or the spouse owns other land, the combined area of the land applied for as a homestead sale and the land owned shall not exceed four quarter sections. The land applied for as a homestead sale must be within a ten mile radius of all land owned.

Rented or leased land is not considered when establishing the amount of homestead land for which an applicant may apply.

The application fee of $25.00 per quarter section, payable at the time of application, will be applied toward payment of the purchase price if the purchaser obtains a homestead sale. The fee is refundable if the department declines to issue a homestead sale agreement.

2. WHAT LANDS ARE OPEN FOR HOMESTEADING? Any vacant available public land which is located in the area where homesteading is permitted and of which at least 50% is arable. Before a sale is granted the land applied for must be inspected by an officer of the department to ascertain the value of the land and improvements, if any, and whether the land is suitable for the granting of a homestead sale. Lists of lands which are available cannot be supplied, however, on request to the Edmonton office, four township plots will be supplied without charge, showing the land available in each township. (Additional plots are fifty cents each.) The available homestead land is located in the Peace River area.