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Federal Crown land makes up a further 1% of the province, including Indian reserves, defence lands and federal harbours, while 5% is privately owned. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations issues Crown land tenures and sells Crown land on behalf of the Crown in Right of British Columbia. [13]
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 English Crown also gave tenure to much of Canada to a private company, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) which from 1670 to 1870 had a legal and economic monopoly on all land in the Rupert's Land territory (identical to the drainage basin of Hudson Bay), and later the Columbia District and the North-Western Territory (now British Columbia, the ...
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866 that was founded by Richard Clement Moody, [1] who was selected to 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific', [2] who was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.
The "Department of Lands and Works" was established under the Constitution Act in 1871 following the admission of the Colony of British Columbia to the Dominion of Canada. The department was responsible for the management of Crown lands , surveying and mapping of Crown lands, construction and maintenance of public services , and encouragement ...
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 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 province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [24] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.