Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Canada Land Inventory (CLI) is a multi-disciplinary land inventory of rural Canada.. Conceptualized in the early 1960s by the Department of Forestry and Rural Development (later the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources), the CLI was a federal-provincial project that lasted from 1963 to 1995 and produced maps which indicated the capability of land to sustain agriculture, forestry ...
The increase in the value of a property, due to its historic value is based on the property's age, quality, and rarity. [4] A property's historic value may be due to being associated with a historical activity, event, period, or person, [5] or it may have particular historical architectural properties.
Not all National Topographic System maps strictly follow the National Tiling System's linear grid. Some maps also, as an "overedge", cover land in an area which would otherwise be covered by an adjacent map sheet, simply because the latter area does not contain enough land in Canada to warrant a separate printing. [4] [clarification needed]
The majority of all lands in Canada are held by governments as public land and are known as Crown lands.About 89% of Canada's land area (8,886,356 km 2) is Crown land, which may either be federal (41%) or provincial (48%); the remaining 11% is privately owned. [1]
Understanding Western Canada's Dominion Land Survey System (PDF). Saskatoon: Division of Extension and Community Relations, University of Saskatchewan. ISBN 0-88880-164-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2021; Thomson, Don W. (1966–1967). Men and Meridians: The History of Surveying and Mapping in Canada (3 vols. ed.). Ottawa ...
A land parcel or cadastral parcel is defined as "a continuous area, or more appropriately volume, that is identified by a unique set of homogeneous property rights". [ 3 ] Cadastral surveys document the boundaries of land ownership, by the production of documents, diagrams, sketches, plans ( plats in the US), charts, and maps.
The United Kingdom transferred most of its remaining land in North America to Canada, with the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land becoming the North-West Territories. [e] The British government made the transfer after Canada and the Hudson's Bay Company agreed to the terms, including a payment of £300,000 from Canada to the Company. [18]