Government of Canada, Order In Council PC2508-1941 : Lease arrangement with Alberta (1941)
“ The Province of Alberta has offered to acquire all the patented lands, to remove all settlers to new locations, to cancel all leases, and to carry out all necessary negotiations, surveys and other legal procedures, and to give to the Government of Canada a 99-year lease on the entire area of about 700,000 acres, in consideration of a payment by the Dominion to the Province of $600,000.00 which is the actual cost, as estimated by the Province, of carrying out the above procedure. ”
