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In the Sessional Papers of 51 Victoria (4) 1888 p. 201, is the annual Immigration Report from the various Agents. The following shows the number of ranches in operation:-- [these are in the North-West Territories which would later become Alberta and Saskatchewan]
| # of
Ranche |
Name of Lessee | Area in Acres | # of
Ranche |
Name of Lessee | Area in Acres |
| 1 | Mount Head Ranche Company | 44,000 | 142 | Thomas McKay | 50,000 |
| 2 | North-West Cattle Company | 59,000 | 143 | T.P. McHugh & Co | 9,700 |
| 3 | Ryan & Whitney | 3,000 | 144 | P.H. Logan | 100,000 |
| 6 | Durham Ranche Company | 33,000 | 145 | George Scheetz | 100,000 |
| 11 | Alexander Begg | 1,440 | 147 | E. Hausman | 100,000 |
| 15 | Sir F.W. de Winton and A.J. Williams | 15,000 | 148 | H.M. Taylor | 100,000 |
| 16 | D. McEachran | 29,000 | 149 | P. Doyle | 60,000 |
| 16a | D. McEachran | 30,000 | 150 | Potter & Petapiece | 5,100 |
| 22 | Stewart Ranche Company | 23,000 | 151 | F.W. Craig | 11,000 |
| 25 | Cochrane Ranche company | 73,000 | 152 | John J. Sullivan | 23,000 |
| 26 | do (ditto) | 60,000 | 154 | D. McEachran | 16,640 |
| 28 | Jones, Inderwick and McCaul | 100,000 | 157 | Allen r. Macdonell | 20,800 |
| 30 | Orrin F. Main | 32,000 | 160 | J.K. Kerr | 42,700 |
| 31 | Military Colonization Company | 70,000 | 161 | Lafferty & Martin | 7,000 |
| 33 | G.F. Wachter | 7,000 | 163 | Ingram & Chambers | 1,280 |
| 34 | Cochrane Ranche Company | 33,000 | 165 | A.C. McKay | 76,000 |
| 35 | North-West Cattle Company | 55,000 | 167 | Glengarry Ranche Co | 52,320 |
| 35a | Moore & Martin | 33,000 | 176 | McDermid & Ross | 60,620 |
| 36 | C.W. Martin | 59,270 | 180 | John H. Conrad | 89,300 |
| 38 | Allfrey & Brooke | 10,000 | 183 | Samuel Spencer | 22,000 |
| 40 | Jacob Erratt | 5,000 | 185 | Herbert Samson | 40,000 |
| 42 | British American Ranche Co | 100,000 | 186 | T.C. Power & Bro | 24,500 |
| 43 | do | 34,600 | 187 | C.A. Bigger | 11,000 |
| 44 | do | 55,000 | 189 | Greely & Wood | 8,960 |
| 45 | Wells & Brown | 12,000 | 193 | Cypress Cattle Co | 38,750 |
| 48 | New Oxley (Canada) Ranche Co | 80,000 | 195 | W. Riddell | 13,400 |
| 55 | Winder Ranche Co | 50,000 | 197 | Walter C. Skrine | 8,700 |
| 56 | Bell Brothers | 5,000 | 198 | D.C. Plumb | 66,000 |
| 57 | Ives & Sharp | 5,000 | 201 | A. Adsit | 1,920 |
| 59 | New Oxley (Canada) Ranche Co | 100,000 | 206 | H.D. & F.E. Beveridge | 4,160 |
| 60 | John Hollies | 29,000 | 209 | Lt-Col Irwin | 33,000 |
| 62 | Brunskill & Geddes | 13,000 | 217 | W. Carter | 100,000 |
| 64 | Moore & Macdowall | 23,000 | 219 | C.W. Saunders | 3,040 |
| 65 | Bell & Patterson | 6,000 | 225 | Medicine Hat Ranche Co | 17,000 |
| 66 | Michael Gallagher | 2,600 | 227 | W.L. Nicol | 4,000 |
| 66a | William Julius Hyde | 3,900 | 233 | G.W. quick | 5,972 |
| 67 | E.H. Maunsell | 4,480 | 236 | E.W. Murphy | 66,000 |
| 74 | Sir John Walrond | 100,000 | 240 | W.G. Conrad | 32,580 |
| 77 | New Oxley (Canada) Ranche Co | 100,000 | 243 | Dorr Clarke | 22,000 |
| 80 | Vicount Boyle | 5,000 | 245 | Curry Brothers | 11,000 |
| 82 | Walrond Ranche Co | 100,000 | 246 | F. Barnard | 44,000 |
| 87 | W.S. Lee | 25,000 | 247 | G. Alexander | 2,232 |
| 92 | W.G. Conrad | 100,000 | 248 | A.E. Cross | 11,000 |
| 93 | Garnett Brothers | 20,000 | 251 | G.L. Broderick | 4,000 |
| 94 | F.W. Godsall | 20,000 | 252 | Thynne & Hole | 5,120 |
| 96 | W.F.N. Scobie | 12,000 | 257 | A. Niedringhaus | 33,000 |
| 99 | Joseph McFarland | 13,000 | 259 | T.B.H. Cochrane | 39,300 |
| 100 | Alfred Lynch Staunton | 8,000 | 260 | John Lawrence | 640 |
| 101 | Alberta Ranche Co | 27,750 | 261 | G.M. Annabel | 5,700 |
| 104 | W. Bell Irving | 5,280 | 262 | D.C. Plumb | 33,000 |
| 107 | Thos. B.H. Cochrane | 51,000 | 264 | G. Alexander | 2,250 |
| 108 | D. McDougall | 6,000 | 265 | Jonathan Henderson | 1,250 |
| 109 | S.E. St. Onge Chapleau | 100,000 | 266 | Dixon, Gow & Co | 6,560 |
| 111 | J. Walter Ings | 1,920 | 267 | P. Robertson | 3,200 |
| 114 | Thorpe & Bedelle | 24,500 | 268 | F.W. & J.W. Ings | 7,040 |
| 119 | North-West Land and Grazing Co | 24,500 | 272 | W.R. Abbott | 1,280 |
| 120 | M. Oxarart | 11,000 | 273 | F.G. Niedringhaus | 100,000 |
| 122 | George Alexander | 44,000 | 277 | A.P. Patrick | 2,560 |
| 123 | Walter C. Skrine | 8,200 | 278 | R. Deacon | 2,880 |
| 124 | B.M. Godsall | 3,600 | 280 | H.D. Beveridge | 16,650 |
| 129 | Rev. John McDougall | 7,680 | 282 | Dorr Clarke | 18,000 |
| 130 | Union Ranching Co | 10,000 | 284 | B. Vanvolkenburgh | 30,000 |
| 131 | Hand-in-Hand Ranching Co | 100,000 | 287 | S.L. Bedson | 880 |
| 132 | J. Ick Evans | 66,000 | 290 | A. Caswell | 1,920 |
| 136 | A.J. McKay | 88,000 | 297 | Dorr Clarke | 26,000 |
| 137 | Brown Ranche Company | 33,500 | 305 | John C. Slater | 320 |
| 140 | E. Meek | 88,000 | 307 | John Quirk | 11,000 |
| 141 | P. McLaren | 7,500 | Total area in acres | 4,466,844 | |
By an Order in Council dated the 7th of April, 1887, leases of grazing lands in Manitoba and the North-West Territories can be granted only after public competition, excepting in cases of actual settlers, to each of whom may be leased, without public competition, a tract of land not exceeding four sections in area, which tract must, however, be contiguous to the settler's homestead.
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