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4 unusual facts about Dominion Land Survey


Bender Hamlet, Manitoba

The center of the settlement was located at quarter section North West 36Township 19, Range 1 west of the Principal Meridian (NW36-19-1W).

Districts of the Northwest Territories

The District of Alberta was where the southwestern part of the province of Alberta is today, east of British Columbia, west of the line between ranges 10 and 11 of the Dominion Land Survey (about 112° west) and north of the American border.

Dominion Land Survey

The Fifth Meridian at 114° west, which runs through Calgary, Alberta (Barlow Trail is built mostly on the meridian) and Stony Plain, Alberta (48th Street).

Qu'Appelle—Moose Mountain

It consisted of a part of Saskatchewan lying south of the Qu'Appelle River and east of the 2nd meridian.


Alberta Highway 779

It runs on the Fifth Meridian (Range Road 10) for its entire length, which was surveyed as 114° Longitude in the Dominion Land Survey, and used by the Alberta Township System.

Barlow Trail

Barlow Trail is run roughly where the fifth meridian lies in the Dominion Land Survey; the road is named for Noel Barlow, a Calgarian who served as the ground crewman to Douglas Bader, a Royal Air Force flying ace in World War II.


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