Hi All Respondents: Thank you all so much for the information you have discovered and kindly posted for me. I am so grateful and amazed at what you have found. The reason I am searching down this path is that during my search for my husband's family, I found their Western Land Grant for farmland in Manitoba, Canada. I took the legal description and converted it to survey maps and discovered that it was in the very fertile Red River Valley in a region known as "Lowe Farm". My husband's grandmother's maiden name was "Lowe". The thought was that perhaps John Lowe who developed this massive farm could possibly be related to Jessie Thomasine Lowe and when she decided to immigrate to Canada, she, naturally, gravitated to a relative who, in turn, granted her this prime section of farm land. John Lowe was employed as a Government Agent at one time in his life, I haven't checked on the dates which could correspond to the Land Grant and his position at the time. The co-incidence of her name and his being the same has been too great to pass up but I haven't made the family connection yet. Thanks to everyone so far. Susan
