1842  (1955)  Many years ago the whole province was laid out in sections, and quarter sections, dividing the whole country like a "damboard."
1880  Any person who is the head of a family, or who has attained the age of eighteen years, is entitled to be entered on these unappropriated lands for a homestead of a quarter-section.
1958  The quarter section was surrounded by a fence eight poles high with stakes held together by willow wands. . . .