Tenures and Boundaries -- Crown Registry and Geographic Base

	Crown Registry and Geographic Base Tenures and Boundaries

The Tenures and Boundaries section is the provincial agency with expertise in researching and interpreting land and resource status information. This can be extremely complex and require in-depth knowledge of historical and current legislation, policies, and precedence for allocating lands and resource rights. Accordingly, the section continues to serve client organizations in providing expert advice on land status issues, administrative boundaries and specific forestry and mining and energy tenuring systems. As well, the section contains the Registry Operations group which provides data and application management services for branch operational systems, and the Registry Attribute unit which maintains the Crown Land Registry for surveys, acquisitions and reversions.

Status and Clearance
contact Bill Clifford

Provides expert advice on the legal state of the land and resources in the Province in support of provincial statutory decision makers or clients that require anything from high level land information to a “ground level” view of the legal status of land. The Status and Clearance Unit has a multi-disciplined pool of land and resource status practitioners who are experienced dealing with the many layers of land disposition, statutory linkages that impact the status of land , the business practices of client ministries and organizations related to land and resource disposition as well as the historic tenuring of land in British Columbia.

Forestry Administrative Boundaries
contact Don Ramsdale

Provides research and analysis of MoFR Administrative Boundaries to support clients’ requests around understanding locations, mapping issues, and business needs. The unit also creates and maintains the spatial data, legal document maps and Exhibit A’s used to define these boundaries, and accompanying Ministerial Orders, Instruments and Orders in Council, which approve and legally register license renewals, adjustments or changes to the Land Base.

Forest Tenure
contact Jayne Wynrib

The unit works with clients to understand and resolve tenure issues through development of project plans and proofs of concept. Project implementation is supported by unit business knowledge, documentation development and offering client training. As well, tenure evaluations are provided by researching and analysing proposed changes based on a thorough understanding of the Forest regulations. Creating and maintaining client tenure is also done through submission to the corporate warehouse (LRDW) and to the MOFR administration system (FTA).

Mineral Tenure
contact Jack Leedham

Provides decision support services including status and research, spatial analysis, business advice and data management to the Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources, other government ministries and agencies, industry and the public on sub-surface rights and interests.