Two Hills (Alberta)

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              Canadian Pacific Railway Land Examination fonds
              Canadian Pacific Railway Land Examination fonds
              CA ACU GBA F0454 · Fonds · 1910-1963

              These land examination reports were prepared by CPR's Land Inspectors, and include the following elements (not necessarily all of them in any single report), which helped the railway determine the value of the land, and what price they should charge for it: average grade; nearest railway station; elevators; nationality of nearest settlers; type of farming in district; nearest creamery, post office, school, church; average rainfall; area of arable land; soil type; timber cover; surface water and well depth; grass and hay cover; stone and coal in district; improvements made; and general remarks.

               Canadian Pacific Railway. Land Examination
              Personal correspondence. 1921-1929
              CA ACU SPC C0050-S0001-FL0001 · File · 1921 - 1929
              Part of Tom Brown Tivey collection

              Consists of handwritten and typescript correspondence that Tivey sent home to his parents during his stay in central and northern Alberta from 1921-1930. The correspondence details his working life at the Alberta & Great Waterways Railway and as a labourer, and later his enrollment in the Edmonton Normal School. The letters also describe his teaching positions in towns including Vegreville, Hay Lakes, Chipman, Two Hills and Dunvegan.