Prairie homesteading

Homestead settlement of the Prairies under the Dominion Lands Act.

Historic places
55Historic places
Built
1872–1938Built
Provinces and territories
3Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 5
  • Provincial 12
  • Municipal 38
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Saskatchewan34
  • Alberta11
  • Manitoba10

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 15 of the 47 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1872First Homestead in Western Canada National Historic Site of CanadaPortage la Prairie, Manitoba
  2. 1875Sexsmith HouseCarman, Manitoba
  3. 1882Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site of CanadaAbernethy, Saskatchewan

The register gives no construction date for 8 of these places.

All 55 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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