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You can still homestead in Canada

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Homesteading. You know it as the way that Canada and the U.S. effectively crowdsourced the development of their Western frontiers.

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You take a big chunk of prairie, divide it up into squares, run a rail line through it, and then offer this deal to potential settlers: If you can turn your square into a viable farm, you can keep it.

You can still homestead in Canada Back to video

The plan worked perfectly. In just a few decades, a giant chunk of North American wilderness was transformed into one of the most productive agricultural regions in human history. At a net cost to the government of about zero dollars.

But surely *you* missed the homesteading boat, right? The government’s not just going to give you land no matter what you promise to........

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