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Other Land Records at the Provincial Archives
Fiats: Records contain name, address and occupation of the applicant along with the legal land description, size, and type of grant.
Township Register: Index to disposals of Dominion lands. Includes date of entry, name of grantee, date of patent, and notations.
Township Plans: Survey maps showing an entire township on each map.
Cummins Maps: Maps showing who owned a quarter section in a given year; 1917, 1920, 1922, 1926, and 1930 maps are available.
Brand books: Books used to locate a rancher whose land was acquired by grazing lease instead of by homestead patent.
Timber and Grazing Records: Information about individuals who had a lease to cut timber or graze animals. Records are on microfilm (R-2.1000, Dept of Agriculture, Lands Branch Records, Timber and Grazing Records). An index is available (R-1224) which can be used with the Township Registers.
Saskatchewan Land Records Held at Other Repositories
Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan: Records include homestead grants (land grant document only), land sales, land purchases, land transfers, all railway land transactions, school lands, and copies of original land grant certificates.
- Website: http://www.isc.ca
Glenbow Archives: Records of Canadian Pacific Railway land sales.
Library and Archives Canada: Records include Western Land Grants (letters patent only), North West Mounted Police (NWMP) land grants, Métis scrip records, colonization company records.
- General Website: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
- Website for Western Land Grants database: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930/Pages/land-grants-western-canada.aspx
Archives of Manitoba - Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Archives: Records include HBC land sales records.
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