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Excerpt from Railway Question in Canada: Liberal Legislation From 1896-1911, Also Nationalist-Conservative Aid to C. N. R. Since 1911; G. T. P. And National Transcontinental Railways, Endorsed by Electors in 1904 and 1908
The policy of md by land' grant to western railwavs had involved the reservation from sale and settlement of ap roxi mately half of the whole country - that is to say the odd num sections. The years from 1880 to 1896 approximately fifty millionacresof esereservedlandshadbeen tedtoraxlways of which amount acres were earned the construction of about miles of railwaoy.
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