Fig. 15 



Commission of Conservation 



|| Town Planning Branch 



PLAN FOR 



AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT 



Area,36 square miles 



, Scale 



O Ji 



Road&^j^z. 



Town Area.. 



I Mile 

 Sites of Farm Buildings* 



In this diagram it is assumed that the square form of land division for the separate farms 

 must be adhered to as a condition precedent to the planning of the area. Varieties of size of 

 holding from 80 acres (near the town) to 400 acres (remote from the town) are provided for, but 

 all holdings could be made 160 acres if desired. A different plan is shown for each of the quarter 

 sections, adaptable to the imaginary topography of the land, the only feature common to all the 

 quarter sections being the main roads intersecting the township in two directions — one parallel 

 with the railway and the other at right angles thereto. All the farms are grouped so as to give 

 them convenient access to the town, where the same facilities are presumed to exist as are de- 

 scribed in respect of Diagram 2. The total length of road usually provided in a fully developed 

 township is 54 miles. In this plan there are 36§ miles of principal and 3^ miles of secondary 

 road, making a total of 40 miles. Every farm has sufficient road frontage, and the same length 

 of boundary road is allowed for in both the above cases. 



The object of these diagrams is not to suggest stereotyped or rigid forms of land division, 

 but to show the desirability of abandoning such forms. Every township should be inspected and 

 planned before settlement. 



