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After Canada acquired the HBC's land in 1870, the federal government used the land as an economic tool to promote settlement and development. Under the Dominion Lands Act system of 1872, 25,000,000 acres were given to the Canadian Pacific Railway to fund its transcontinental line, other areas were reserved for school boards to be sold to fund ...
The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) was a branch under Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), a department of the Federal Government of Canada.. The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration was established by an Act of Parliament under Prime Minister R. B. Bennett in 1935 in response to the widespread drought, farm abandonment and land degradation of the 1930s.
The Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA) is a publicly accountable, statutory corporation which operates and administers the land title and survey systems in British Columbia, Canada. The LTSA delivers secure land titles through timely, efficient registration of land title interests and survey records; these services are ...
Portal de Mapas and GeoFTP Downloads: including 1:250k Canada: Natural Resources Canada – Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation [4] nrcan.gc.ca Archived 2015-09-06 at the Wayback Machine: Toporama: Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar: igm.cl: Colombia: Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) igac.gov.co
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada plans to ease a housing shortage by leasing public land to developers for construction of affordable houses under a plan unveiled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on ...
A Land Information System (LIS) is a geographic information system for cadastral and land-use mapping, typically used by local governments. [1]A LIS consists of an accurate, current and reliable land record cadastre and its associated attribute and spatial data that represent the legal boundaries of land tenure and provides a vital base layer capable of integration into other geographic ...
The Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) was an early geographic information system (GIS) developed for the Government of Canada beginning in the early 1960s. CGIS was used to store geospatial data for the Canada Land Inventory and assisted in the development of regulatory procedures for land-use management and resource monitoring in Canada.
Canada Lands was reactivated in August 1995 by the Government of Canada as a "federal nonagent commercial Crown corporation" for the disposition of physical government properties deemed superfluous. [ 4 ] : 69 It is mandated by the government to act as its agent for the disposal of such assets, [ 4 ] : 67 and the government is the company's ...