Mudcat Café message #2180078

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Thread #105650 Message #2180078
Posted By: Ron Davies
26-Oct-07 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Poor Whites' in the Southern States
Subject: RE: BS: 'Poor Whites' in the Southern States

So that's the contrast with the US. Homestead Act in the US 1862, as I recall. Therefore big conflict with Indians on those lands--or wanting to hunt or graze on them--guaranteed. Canadian homesteading much later, it appears.