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Crown corporations in BC are public-sector organizations established and funded by the Government of British Columbia to provide specialized goods and services to citizens. [1] They operate at varying levels of government control, depending on how they are defined, funded, and the kinds of services they provide.
The LTSA was established under the Land Title and Survey Authority Act in January 2005 and provides for the registration of all real property ownership and land interests, and all private and Crown land surveys through two divisions: Land Title Division – ensures the continued integrity of BC’s Torrens title system for registering land ...
The creation of the University Endowment Lands was first proposed after the passing of the University Endowment Act of 1907, in which the British Columbia provincial government agreed to set aside two million acres (8,000 km 2) of British Columbia Crown land to be sold or leased to fund the creation of a university.
The British Columbia Assessment Authority is a publicly owned Crown Corporation in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.BC Assessment was created in 1974, as a result of a provincial government all-party committee unanimous recommendation that an independent assessment agency be created.
Less than a quarter of the land in the ALR is prime agricultural land (1.1% of BC's land area), where prime agricultural land falls into Canada Land Inventory (CLI) survey Classes 1-3. [ 2 ] : 17 [ 3 ] : 1 [ 6 ] About three quarters of BC's total land is located above a thousand metres in elevation, and the province's mountainous geography ...
The only exception to this was that the Crown held the precious minerals (gold and silver), and any treasure-trove. That was the pattern of land ownership in the earliest British settlements in what is now eastern Canada. When the Crown granted land to settlers, the land grant normally included all minerals, other than precious minerals. [6]
Over 90% of the sprawling boreal forest of Canada is provincial Crown land. [1] Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [2] 94% of the land in British Columbia, [3] 95% of Newfoundland and Labrador, [4] and 48% of New Brunswick. [5]
The Commissioner of Crown Lands was a member of the Executive Council for the Province of Canada responsible for administering the surveying and sale of Crown land, the forests, mines, and fisheries of the Province. From 1841 to 1867 the Department of Crown Lands was the biggest of the Province of Canada's departments.