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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Dominion Lands and Crown Timber Office

File No. 16014

W7811 TO REV. CALVIN MCQUESTEN from D. L. Bettschen, agent Dominion Lands
Nov 18 1909
To: Rev. Calvin McQuesten Knox College, Toronto, Ontario
From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan


Calvin McQuesten, Esq.,
Knox College,
Toronto, Ontario

Sir,

I beg to acknowledge yours of the 3rd instant, in which you state that you have completed your second term of six months residence on your homestead, the S.W. Quarter of Section 22, Township 31, Range 10, West of the 3rd Meridian, and that you have fourteen acres in crop, seven of which were broken this year.1 In reply, I am to inform you that I have made a record of same on the files at this office, and that your action would appear quite satisfactory.

Your obedient servant,

D. L. Bettschen

Agent Dominion Lands.


1 For links concerning Calvin's farmland, see W8239.




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