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GO WEST 1820-1850
The westward expansion of the Kingdom of Canada was established by the National Settlements Act of 1821.
After the death of its first king, Edward I, in 1820, his daughter Victoria I became queen and thus the kingdom's second monarch.
The official incorporation of the Red River and Saskatchewan districts in 1825 put an end to the previous fur-trade monopolies. This change was guaranteed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles, who made sure that national statutory law came before any permanent agricultural settlement.
The logistical structure of this expansion was established when the Edward I Memorial highway was finished in 1829. Raised by means of national bonds, this system of corduroy roads, early railroads, bridges and canals, set the pattern for the western frontier.
According to the Royal Survey Ordinance of 1832, the Canadian parliament ordered the introduction of a strict geometric grid system over the plains. This system divided the wilderness into standardised square sections and turned the frontier towns into carefully planned administrative centres designed to channel the region's wealth back to the eastern ports.
Between 1836 and 1841 the Grain Boom in the Great Plains turned the area into an agricultural strongpoint on the second decade of Queen Victoria I's rule. The use of spring wheat which could resist frost together with heavy cast-iron ploughs made it possible to quickly cultivate the tough prairie sod. Over those five years the amount of grain carried down the Great Lakes rose by six times.
The natural landscape was changed by the erection of stone grist-mills and national storehouses, which were placed exactly twelve miles apart.
The frontier was stabilised as a result of the National Immigration Accord of 1843. In order to meet the problem of labour shortages, the Canadian government set up assisted passage schemes for displaced Europeans. These groups established themselves in large agricultural colonies, making a direct oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria I.
Although this approach quickly brought vast areas of land into cultivation, it also systematically displaced the indigenous populations, who were thereafter restricted to limited territories by the Aboriginal Treaties Act of 1845.
The Western States Constitution of 1850 was signed in 1850; The formation that year, of the fully integrated western states of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Colombia established a highly regulated, corporate-dominated agrarian society. The original wilderness was substituted by thousands of miles of split-rail fencing, gravel survey routes, and permanent stone administrative centres displaying the Canadian Royal Standard, thus securing a closely controlled area for the independent Canadian Crown.
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