LANDS AND SURVEYS BRANCH 



The Branch is comprised of four sections with responsibilities and functions 

 as follows: 



Surveys Section 



Performance of surveys for the disposition of Crown lands, the retracement of 



obliterated original boundaries, base and meridian lines, provincial parks, lands 



acquired for departmental purposes, provincial boundaries; 



Custody and maintenance of survey records; 



Map compilation and distribution; 



Sale of maps, record reproductions, departmental publications; 



Lands Section 



Administration of the public lands; 



Disposition of Crown lands by sale, lease, licence; 



Servicing of Crown leases and Licences of Occupation; 



Land Use Planning Section 



Preparation of a land use plan for the public lands of the province; 



Wilderness areas; 



Advisory Committees on Recreational Land Use Planning; 



Engineering Section 



Inspection and approval of dams, investigations, water resource management, 



issuance and servicing of Water Power Lease Agreements, Licences of Occupation 



for dams, flooding, diversions; 



Preparation of plans for departmental buildings; 



General engineering services; 



Designs and plans for hatcheries, trout rearing stations, renovations, plant and 



equipment; 



Engineering studies for wildlife management; 



Access roads, acquisition of land. 



Detailed reports follow here. 



SURVEYS SECTION 



In the past four years, following the department's new policy of selling 

 public land for summer resort use by reference to registered plans of subdivisions, 

 367 subdivisions totalling some 6,000 lots were surveyed, the plans registered, 

 and the lots made available for sale. 



In view of the number of available lots for sale on registered plans of sub- 

 division, the subdivision survey programme was reduced during the past fiscal 

 year with 71 subdivision surveys made totalling 966 lots. This number represents 

 a reduction of about 50 per cent over the previous year. In addition to the 

 subdivision surveys, 683 individual surveys were completed in areas where 

 registered plans of subdivision were not available. 



The long-range programme of retracement surveys to restore obliterated 



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