Registry Services

Crown Land Registry help clients extract various information products from Tantalis (the registry database) and from the historic documents stored in registry vaults.

Self-Service with Tantalis GATOR
Traditional Product Services
Research, consultation & expertise
Customized mapping
Reproduction—photocopies, prints & plots
Transmission—C.O.D., fax, ftp, email
Ordering Products

Please read on, for some important information about GATOR:

• Products available from GATOR. GATOR presently provides textual/attribute reports on key elements of the Tantalis database:
  • primary parcels (original surveys of Crown land, prior to subdivision);
  • Crown land survey parcels (records of surveys over Crown land);
  • Crown land interest parcels (tenures, rights of way and reserves); and
  • encumbrances on Crown land survey parcels (a listing of all rights to Crown land, including ownership, tenure and right of way rights)
• New improvements to GATOR. New improvements enable users to extract information on tenure and ownership history, forestry survey parcels and more.
• Plans to expand GATOR. Since GATOR II became available in April 2000, the capacity of the GATOR system has greatly expanded.
  • In July 2000, GATOR began to provide document images. We can now provide high quality images of Crown grants, official plans and well site plans through GATOR. Images that are not yet part of our dataset we will make available upon request.

  • New Image Viewer Plug-ins

    • Two new plug-ins allow enhanced viewing and printing of scanned images
    • Enhanced image format provided
    • Help documents provided for downloading of the two new Image Viewer Plug-ins
• More information on Gator. Please visit the GATOR topic on our Business Solutions page.

CLR staff members assist clients to obtain a full range of Crown land information products. They respond to requests by telephone, fax and email, as well as personal inquiries at our registry building in Victoria. Their personal attention assures quality service to registry clients in several key areas.

Visit these links to learn more about the factors involved in obtaining Crown Land Registry products:

Consultation and Expertise. Services to consult, search, retrieve and interpret information and documents;
Reproduction. Copies of documents and records in a variety of formats;
Transmission. Mail or electronic delivery, as appropriate.

Service and Product Fees

Most clients come to us for products to serve a specific legal or survey requirement, but we also serve clients with a particular historical, genealogical, or other interest. We are pleased to offer our expertise and to identify products that satisfy our clients' needs.

We offer a quarter-hour of consultative service free of charge.

Service Fees

We customize mapping products to meet special client needs. Here are some prominent examples of mapping products we have developed:

• We provided land status maps to support the British Columbia treaty process and, in particular, to provide a basis for negotiations regarding comprehensive land claims of the Nisga'a Tribal Council.
• For BC Parks we adapted cadastral maps (1: 20 000 scale) to display shapes enclosing areas of interest being considered for designation as provincial parks.
• Our staff, in conjunction with the Land and Resource Management Planning (LRMP) Round Table on the Environment, mapped the boundary of the Northern Rockies Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (scale: 1: 600 000). The Muskwa-Kechika map can be viewed through the official Northern Rockies website. Paper prints of the map are available.
• We have partnership arrangements with BC Parks and the Land Reserve Commission to maintain mapping of boundaries for provincial parks and agricultural land reserves throughout the province.

Customized products require advance planning to determine the client's precise needs and to schedule the work.

Please Note: Customized mapping services are presently under review. Thank you for your interest in these products. We will post updated information on customized mapping services as soon as the review is completed.

Reproduction

We are continuously improving our technology to deliver better products with less service time. To learn what's changed since you visited us last, see our What's New page now--or ask next time you drop by.

So that we can continue providing our clients with the quality of service they appreciate, we do charge for our products.

Transmission

We can send you our products in a number of different ways. We send hard copy products by mail, courier, or fax. We can deliver digital products on tape or CD-ROM. Digital files can be transmitted by email, or posted to the government's FTP site, for you to download, in privacy, over the Internet. To cover our costs for these activities, we charge transmission fees.

Transmission Fees

Ordering Products

by E-mail - Order desk at CLRS SRM:EX
by FAX - (250) 952-4590 Address request to "Client Services Section"

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