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homestead ((v.))†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
take up public lands under the conditions of the Homestead Act (def. 2).
Quotations
1913
Any person who is the sole head of a family, or any male over 18 years old, may homestead a quarter-section of available Dominion land in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, or Alberta.
1953
He homesteaded in 1910 near the town of Success. . . .
1962
They [eastern Europeans] homesteaded the poorer, outlying lands; they cleared, dug, ditched, and drained them, using their first money to buy modern machinery. . . .