Our Local History – Soldier Settlements
The Historical Society is anxious to collect the history of our second wave of pioneers, the Soldier Settlers - from subdivision maps, correspondence, documents, photos, reminiscences, ledgers… We have some information about Soldier Settlement on Waterloo, Rangers Valley, Kings Plains and Deepwater. Jean Cameron, in a presentation to the historical society said “The Closer Settlement Act of 1904 gave government the power to resume large estates in cases where agreement to sell could not be reached. At the end of 1918, 3,327 settlers had been established on 1,700,000 acres. “In the fifty years of operation of the Closer Settlement Acts,…