Sentence examples for road allowance from inspiring English sources

Settlers would not only haul gravel for the new roadways, but they also cleared brush for the road allowance.

By ploughing the prairie soil at the road allowance, and then using road graders to pull in the dirt roads could be made wide enough for the first cars of the area.

There the surveying grid changes orientation, and Highway 21 follows a forced road allowance that meanders approximately 2 km inland from lake north to Amberley, where it encounters former Highway 86, which travels to Waterloo, and enters.

The Manitoba survey allowed for 100 feet road allowances placed east and west every 1 mi.

Whereas, the Saskatchewan survey conducted in 1887, allowed for 66 feet road allowances and placed roads east and west every 2 mile.

In rural areas the Dominion Land Survey System provided "road allowances," strips of territory a mile or two apart that serve as simple, mostly dirt, roads, which when dry are firm and passable and widely used for local travel.

The road allowances were laid out as a part of the Dominion Land survey system for homesteading.

Travel along the Provincial Highway 5 before the 1940s would have been traveling on the square following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and rail lines.

The prairie trails proved inadequate and road allowances were graded and built up; culverts had to be installed where the natural water runs were.

Travel along Provincial Highway 4 before the 1940s would have been travelling on the square following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and rail lines.

Travel along the current Yellowhead before the 1940s would have been travelling on the square following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and rail lines.