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railway belt 
See 1958 quote.
See also: mile-belt railway lands
- 1880 It does not apply to the railway belt. . . .
- 1939 . . . the Canadian Pacific Railway was under construction, and along its route, and within the . . . "Railway Belt," prospectors were quite . . . busy. . . .
- 1958 [These provisions [1880] included . . . a grant of 25,000,000 acres of land to be given in alternate sections of 640 acres in a belt 24 miles deep on each side of the railway (deficiencies in fertile land to be made up in other regions). . . .]
- 1963 [They received] a block of land in the Peace River to compensate for alienated or rocky land in the "railway belt" granted by the original terms of union.
- 1880 It does not apply to the railway belt. . . .