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The first marker of the Dominion Lands Survey was placed on July 10, 1871, on the Principal Meridian about half a mile south of this site. The system, inaugurated by Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Dennis, Surveyor-General, extended across the prairies to the Pacific coast and embraced more than 200 million acres of surveyed lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and parts of British Columbia.
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