DCHP-2

Homestead Law DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 — Hist.

  one of the several pieces of legislation governing settlement on government land in Canada prior to the passing of the Homestead Act (def. 2) of 1872.

  See also: Homestead Act  

• 2

  an act of Parliament passed in 1872, in full called the Free Land Homestead Act, governing the conditions under which government land was to be settled, especially in the Canadian West.

  See also: Homestead Act (def. 2)