Ī number of places are excluded from the survey system: these include federal lands such as First Nation reserves, federal parks, and air weapon ranges. Another six meridians were established after. The first meridian was chosen at 97☂7′28.4″ west longitude and was established in 1869. The Dominion Land Survey system was developed because the farm name and field position descriptions used in northern Europe were not organized or flexible enough, and the township and concession system used in eastern Canada was not satisfactory. With a large number of European settlers arriving, Manitoba was undergoing a large change so grasslands and parklands were surveyed, settled, and farmed. The inspiration for the Dominion Land Survey System was the plan for Manitoba (and later Saskatchewan and Alberta) to be agricultural economies. The first formal survey done in western Canada was by Peter Fidler in 1813. The DLS is the world's largest survey grid laid down in a single integrated system. Covering about 800,000 square kilometres (310,000 sq mi), the survey system and its terminology are deeply ingrained in the rural culture of the Prairies. The survey was begun in 1871, shortly after Manitoba and the North-West Territories became part of Canada, following the purchase of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company. The federal government then surveyed these areas under the DLS.) History (Although British Columbia entered Confederation with control over its own lands, unlike the Northwest Territories and the Prairie provinces, British Columbia transferred these lands to the federal Government as a condition of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The DLS is the dominant survey method in the Prairie provinces, and it is also used in British Columbia along the Railway Belt (near the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway), and in the Peace River Block in the northeast of the province. It is based on the layout of the Public Land Survey System used in the United States, but has several differences. The Dominion Land Survey ( DLS French: arpentage des terres fédérales, ATF) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile (2.6 km 2) sections for agricultural and other purposes. Survey method used in most of western Canada
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