Keep in mind that not all properties in the county are the standard square mile of one mile by one mile. In the past, the surveyor often marked only one area based on natural sites. For example, in Chilcotin there are many county lots that have strange shapes and sizes and include natural meadows and hayfields that were staked for use by early settlers. You will find the PID or the legal description of a property by: Once established, even an imperfect grid remains in force, mainly because the monuments of the original survey, once restored, have a legal precedent for subsequent surveys. [3] Between some sections of a municipality operate “road rights-of-way” (but not all road rights-of-way have built an actual road). Road rights-of-way increase the size of the community (they do not reduce the size of sections): this is why baselines are not exactly 24 miles (39 km) apart. In the townships surveyed from 1871 to 1880 (most of southern Manitoba, part of southeastern Saskatchewan, and a small area near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan), there are 1+1⁄2 chain (30 m) road rights-of-way surrounding each section. In municipalities surveyed from 1881 to the present day, road rights-of-way are reduced both in width and number. They are 1 chain (20 m) wide and extend in a north-south direction between all sections; However, there are only three east-west road rights-of-way in each municipality, on the north side of sections 7 to 12, 19 to 24 and 31 to 36. This results in one north-south right-of-way for every mile to the west and one east-west right-of-way every two miles to the north. This arrangement reduced the allocation of land for roads, but still allows road access to each quarter section. Road approvals are one of the differences between the Canadian DLS and the U.S.
Public Land Survey System, which leaves no additional space for roads. A legal description is a written description of the exact location of the property. This is based on survey systems that have been carried out over the last 100 years. The Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA) operates the province`s land title and survey systems and has four main areas of responsibility: The sections are also used in land descriptions in the northwestern part of Georgia that was once part of the Cherokee Nation territory. However, they are not part of the PLSS and are irregular in shape and size. See Cherokee County, Georgia for more information on historical reasons. Full legal descriptions can be found in a title search. A title search is a detailed review of ownership documents to ensure that there are no liens or other encumbrances on the property and that there are no questions about the seller`s claim of ownership. A PID is a nine-digit number that uniquely identifies a parcel of land in the British Columbia Land Registry. The registrar assigns PID numbers to packages for which a title is entered. The Land Titles Act refers to IPR as a permanent identification of the parcel. The importance of “sections” was greatly increased by the passage by the United States Congress of an “Ordinance Determining the Manner of Selling Land in the Western Territory” of 1785 (see Land Ordinance of 1785).
This law stipulated that lands outside the then existing states could not be sold, otherwise distributed, or opened to settlement prior to surveying. The usual way to do this was to divide the land into sections. An area with six times six sections would define a municipality. In this area, a section has been designated as school grounds. Since not all the land was needed for the school and its grounds, the rest had to be sold, with the funds going to the construction and maintenance of the school. Federal 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 km2) sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout of the public surveying system used in the United States, but has some differences. DLS is the dominant surveying method in the Prairie provinces and is also used in British Columbia along the railway belt (near the Canadian Pacific Railway`s main line) and in the Peace River block in the northeastern part of the province. Although British Columbia joined Confederation and had control of its own lands, British Columbia, unlike the Northwest Territories and the Prairie provinces, ceded these lands to the federal government as a condition of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The federal government then investigated these areas under DLS.) [1] The existence of section lines made property descriptions much easier than the old Metes and Bounds system.
The establishment of standard east-west and north-south lines (“township” and “route lines”) meant that deeds were drafted without taking into account temporary elements of the land such as trees, cairns, fences and the like, and in the style of “lying down and being in Township 4 North; Zone 7 West; and is the northwest quadrant of the southwest quadrant of this section,” an accurate description in this case of 40 acres, since there are 640 acres (260 ha) in a square mile. Customers who wish to access land title survey plans can register for myLTSA on the Land Title and Survey Authority`s website at www.ltsa.ca/cms Land Title and Survey Authority of BC Records, such as land titles and plans, can be accessed through myLTSA at www.ltsa.ca The reason why the Canadian government pushed to divide Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta was to reassert Canadian sovereignty over those countries. The United States expanded rapidly in the 1860s and the Canadian government feared that the Americans would expand into Canada. Canada`s introduction of a railway and surveying was a means of preventing American encroachment. Sir John A. Macdonald noted in 1870 that the Americans are “determined to do all they can, except go to war to take possession of our western territory, and we must take immediate and vigorous measures to counter them.” [6] A number of sites are excluded from the survey system, including states such as First Nations reserves, federal parks, and Air Force stands. The surveys do not include reserves, as these areas were created prior to the start of the surveys. When the Hudson`s Bay Company was founded on July 15. In July 1870, it ceded its title to the Dominion by charter of cession, and it received section 8 and all of section 26, except for the northeast quarter. These lands were gradually sold by the company and in 1984 it donated the remaining 5,100 acres (21 km2) to the Saskatchewan Wildlife Association.
[5] SURFACE MINERAL RIGHTS: The third common form of legal description in British Columbia is surface rights to a mining claim. To the beginner, this sounds complicated, but in fact, the only real difference between a surface right granted by the Crown and a county property is the story of how the property was actually created. Settler rights before DLS were a major political issue in the West in the late nineteenth century. The settlers claimed the rights of the squatters to the land they had already cultivated, but the size and boundaries of these farms were ill-defined, leading to frequent conflicts. The Métis of the settlements in the southern branch of Saskatchewan were also particularly attached to their land rights, as they had not been adequately protected by the Manitoba Act, as they had been promised in 1870. In the case of the densely populated settlements of Edmonton, St. Albert and Fort Saskatchewan in the Alberta District, a “settler rights movement” developed demanding that the federal government take steps to grant settlers a legal claim to their land and stop the skipping of claims. The movement has even resorted to self-defense justice against alleged claimants. Most of these grievances were resolved in 1885, which is probably one of the reasons the area never joined the North-West Rebellion, although St.