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Grant Land is the northern lobe of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Situated on the north coast, Cape Columbia, is the northernmost point of Canada, only 770 km from the North Pole, and was used as the final point on land for Peary's North Pole expedition in 1909. Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. ... Motto: Nunavut Sannginivut (Inuktitut: Nunavut our strength or Our land our strength) Capital Iqaluit Largest city Iqaluit Official languages Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English, French Government - Commissioner Ann Meekitjuk Hanson - Premier Paul Okalik (Consensus government) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 1 (Nancy Karetak-Lindell) - Senate seats 1 (Willie Adams) Confederation... Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada, located on Ellesmere Island at 83°05N, 70°21W. It marks the westernmost coastal point of Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. ... For other uses, see North Pole (disambiguation). ... Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole Peary was born in the Pittsburgh area town of Cresson, Pennsylvania. ...
The mission of these institutions, as set forth in the 1862 Act, is to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts, not to the exclusion of classical studies, so that members of the working classes might obtain a practical college education.
The University of the District of Columbia received land-grant status and a $7.24 million endowment (USD), in lieu of a landgrant, in 1967.
A landgrant is a gift of land made by the government for projects such as roads, railroads, or rewards for military service, or especially academic institutions.
Regarding academia, the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 have given nearly 100 U.S. colleges and universities large areas of public land, which in turn were sold by the institutions and the proceeds placed into endowment funds to provide them financial support in creating and sustaining agricultural and mechanical academic programs.
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