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This series consists of homestead records created, accumulated and used by the federal Department of the Interior, Dominion Lands Administration between 1872 and 1930. Each file pertains to a specific parcel of land (typically a quarter section or portion thereof) available for settlement under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act, 1872 (An Act respecting the Public Lands of the Dominion, S.C. 1872, c. 23). A file usually covers the period from date of entry until grant of patent, at which time file was closed. Files contain information pertaining to various types of land grants including homesteads; pre-emptions; scrip grants to North West Métis entrants and to South African volunteers; grants to soldiers of the Great War; and homesteads on First Nations reserves. The fonds also includes: applications for Letters Patent that were separated from certain original homestead files and filed independently; and administrative records regarding the management of lands designated for schools.

The types of records included are applications for entry and for patent; land condition and valuation reports; land transfer documents; sale deeds and receipts; notarial certificates; naturalization documents; cattle grazing and haying permits; soldier land settlements; maps; and correspondence.

To facilitate access to the records in this series via the Threshold description tree, the series has been arranged into sub-series, sub-sub-series and file parts.

Records pertaining to homesteads patented after 1930, river lots, transfers, pasture leases, and grants; special files and samples of timber and grazing leases. Also contains letter books of Dominion Lands office, Prince Albert (1887-1888), Dominion Lands office, Moose Jaw (1916), and monthly diaries of homestead inspectors (1912-1929).

Items are images from the Cannington Manor district that show: a man on a binder in a field; two binders in a field with stooks; and two men with ploughs ploughing stubble.

Prince Albert settlement. File No. 44719: Charles Mair and D.H. Macdowall re: Prince Albert lands and other matters (1882, 14 p.); File No. 57904: Secretary of State, claims of Prince Albert settlers (1883-1885, 35 p.); File No. 65366: Land Commission, Prince Albert land claims (1883-1884, 120 p.); File No. 108352: return of Order-in-Council authorizing exchange of lands by the Prince Albert Colonization Company (1886, 6 p.); File No. 168325: D.H. MacDowall Military Bounty warrants to Prince Albert Volunteers and rebellion losses claim of Alcide Legare (1888, 8 p.); and File No. 249248: epidemic amongst horses near Prince Albert (1890, 23 p.). Copied from the Public Archives of Canada. R.G. 15.

York Farmers' Colonization Company, File number 41345, copied from the Public Archives of Canada, R.G. 15.

Photocopies of two pages from the 6th May 1882 issue of the Edmonton Bulletin, containing some local news from Battleford.

Manuscript plan of section 24, township 20, range 21, W. 2 meridian.

Item is a photographic reproduction of a map that shows a plan for York City [now known as Yorkton] and the York Farmers' Colony.

Records of the Provincial Lands Branch, and files of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, respecting land settlement and use, 1886-1948. Includes material about the Community of Goldfields, Denare Beach, Lac La Ronge, grazing lands, hay permits, Northern Settlers Re-Establishment Branch, school lands, Prince Albert, sale of provincial lands, surveys, forest reserves, St. Laurent settlement, Isle a la Crosse, Sturgeon Landing, Turtleford district, Preeceville, Onion Lake district, Melfort district. Also ledgers and account books.