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Before 1973, an estimated 4000 to 6000 hectares of prime agricultural land was lost each year to urbanization in British Columbia. [3]: 3 Recognition that the province had limited arable farmland, and a concern for food security, led the provincial government to introduce the Land Commission Act on 18 April 1973 which created the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) and established the ...
A village is a classification of municipalities used in the Canadian province of British Columbia.British Columbia's Lieutenant Governor in Council may incorporate a community as a village by letters patent, under the recommendation of the Minister of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development, if its population is not greater than 2,500 and the outcome of a vote involving affected residents ...
A recreational community in British Columbia is an "unincorporated place with seasonal or year-round services, accommodation and amenities associated primarily with recreational or leisure activities". [5] British Columbia has 11 communities that are classified as recreational communities. [1]
Rural areas in Canada, often called rural Canada, generally refers to areas in Canada outside of census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, according to Statistics Canada. [1] Rural areas cover approximately 9,197,138 km 2 (3,551,035 sq mi) of Canada's land area as of 2015 [update] .
A legal land description in British Columbia Fraser Valley Lower Mainland (Metro Vancouver) is defined by land surveys based out of New Westminster. Land in New Westminster Townsite corresponding to present day New Westminster is labelled as such while land outside the townsite is labelled as being in New Westminster District. [2]
In those predominantly rural areas, regional districts provide services such as land use planning, building inspection, solid-waste management, and some responsibility for community fire protection. Most land nominally within a regional district is under the control of the provincial government, or in the case of national parks and offshore ...
A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, [1] and Prince Edward Island. [2] In other provinces, such as Alberta and Nova Scotia , the term refers to municipal districts that are not explicitly urban, rather than being a distinct type of municipality.
Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [3] 94% of the land in British Columbia, [4] 95% of Newfoundland and Labrador, [1] and 48% of New Brunswick. [ 5 ] The largest single landowner in Canada by far, and by extension one of the world's largest, is the Government of Canada .