quartersection

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And there, some eighty miles north of Saskatoon, at Fort Carlton, the elder Diefenbaker homesteaded a quartersection when $10 plus a commitment to stand by the land alone and unaided if need be -- one could, with hard work and God's providence, build a future.

Those Things We Treasure 1972
Farm tenancy has been abolished, the great plantations have been expropriated and made cooperative, the Homestead Act of 1862 has been applied in the South and every citizen is entitled to claim a quartersection.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940