don't it make you proud to be British. 
I feel right at home here Sam.
The province is about 450-650 km e-w and 1200 km n-s. Prime Minister Asquiths' town is about 40 km away from my house in a district settled by Britons in the first years of the 1900s.
Homestead of 160 acres were free and available to British subjects age 21 or over. After filing for Entry at the local Dominion Land Office on a presurveyed 160 acre parcel of their choice , applicants were given 3 years to "prove up" by breaking a quota of virgin prairie and erecting buildings to a value. At completion, the transfer of title from the Crown to the homesteader was made and they were officially landowners, free and clear, and masters of properties that dwarfed the estates of the gentlemen back home. Times were good then and many prospered and became wealthy but in the 1920s crops were poor and then came the Great Depression. A depopulation of the land started then which has continued to this day.
Pioneer cemeteries are a glimpse back into who settled where and in what years. Henson, Kimberley, Bunker, Carpenter, Priest, Castle, Kinzie, and Braithwaite are names in this bleak windswept ridgetop burying ground.
