APPENDIX B 



THE COLONIZATION OPERATIONS OF THE CANADIAN 

 PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY 



BY ALLAN CAMERON, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF LANDS 



The following is a rough outline of the various schemes for colon- 

 ization adopted by the company since the commencement of our 

 colonization operations : 



The original terms of payment for the purchase of company 

 lands, whether for settlement or not, were six equal annual pay- 

 ments with interest at 6 per cent. 



To encourage settlement, to make branch lines profitable, and 

 to bring the lands of the company in demand, the following conces- 

 sions in terms of payment were made : 



1. When lands were selling at from $2.50 to $3.50 per acre, 

 the company adopted a policy, to encourage settlement, of giving 

 a rebate of 50c per acre for every acre broken. The minimum area 

 per annum on which a rebate was allowed was fixed, and the period 

 for payment of purchase price was six years, throughout which the 

 rebate applied. 



2. A policy of assisted colonization was embarked upon in 

 1888 and kept up until 1901. European immigrants were located in 

 groups in several districts, and furnished with implements and horses 

 to an average amount of $300 each, while a large number of settlers 

 from Ontario and the United States were transported on credit, 

 chiefly to Northern Alberta. The undertaking worked very well. 

 The settlers thus assisted sent word to friends, and soon all available 

 homesteads were taken up and the company's lands were bought, 

 both by the older settlers to increase their areas, and by later arrivals 

 who desired to remain among friends and relatives. 



3. During this period a development contract was instituted, 

 which provided that, upon satisfactory proof being furnished of set- 

 tlement and occupation of land, the second payment, which consisted 

 of an interest payment only, would be waived. 



4. Later this was changed, eliminating in the contract the 

 interest payment entirely for the second year of occupation, but a 

 penalty clause was inserted, to the effect that unless the land was 

 occupied and improved the second payment of one-sixth of the pur- 

 chase price was due and payable at the end of the second year. The 

 penalty clause was inserted so that where lands were not settled 

 upon, the contract might be brought back to the basis of the terms 

 for sale of lands for non-settlement, viz., six equal annual payments. 



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