Homesteading in Canada
Abstract
Canada was under no obligation to engage in homesteading, nor did it face the types of threats to its sovereignty as the United States. And yet Canada quickly copied most of the US homesteading system because it still required a rushed occupation of its prairie provinces. Not only is the Canadian situation broadly consistent with the property rights hypothesis, but the special details of the Canadian system provide an additional out-of-sample test.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Land Rights and Reforms
Canadian Identity and History
Historical Economic and Social Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 228–266
- Publication date
- 30 January 2026
- Document type
- Book chapter