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The Bar U Ranch National Historic Site, located near Longview, Alberta, is a preserved ranch that for 70 years was one of the leading ranching operations in Canada. At its peak, the ranch extended over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) with 30,000 cattle and 1000 Percheron horses.
Gundy is a locality in northern Alberta, Canada within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1 near the British Columbia-Alberta border northeast of Dawson Creek. It was named after H.W. Gundy, a partner in the Toronto real estate firm, Gundy & Gundy, who, in 1915, purchased 35,000 acres of land in the area with the view of selling it to incoming ...
The system begins with a large tract of land. This large tract is typically defined by one of the earlier survey systems such as metes and bounds or the Public Land Survey System. A subdivision survey is conducted to divide the original tract into smaller lots and a plat map is created. Usually this subdivision survey employs a metes and bounds ...
The ranches produce over 45,000 metric tonnes of feed annually which consists mainly of silage but also includes large hay square bales, green feed and wrapped haylage bales. [7] The ranches farm on over 7,000 acres of irrigated crop land between all divisions. All feed produced during the summer months is consumed by the cattle in the winter.
With a land area of 4.78 km 2 (1.85 sq mi), it had a population density of 413.0/km 2 (1,069.6/sq mi) in 2021. [ 3 ] In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Heritage Pointe recorded a population of 2,075 living in 710 of its 721 total private dwellings, a 1.7% change from its 2011 population of 2,041.
The federal Crown's ownership of the land in western Canada included the power to grant land titles, and also the power to determine if minerals would be included in the land grants. In the grants to the first two major corporations in the west, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the federal government generally ...
If the ranch includes arable or irrigated land, the ranch may also engage in a limited amount of farming, raising crops for feeding the animals, such as hay and feed grains. [2] Ranches that cater exclusively to tourists are called guest ranches or, colloquially, "dude ranches".
Del Bonita is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Cardston County. [2] It is located approximately 49 km (30 mi) south of Magrath at the junction of Highway 62 and Highway 501 . Due to its location near the Canada–United States border , it serves as a port of entry into the U.S. state of Montana at the nearby Del Bonita Border ...