Posted Aug 16, 2020, 3:21 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
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Great outport pictures. My parents just returned from a little vacation to that part of the province - they drove to Harbour Breton and then took the ferry from Hermitage to Gaultois and McCallum. Dad loved it. Mom found it a little depressing and offensive ("It can't last. There's no one there. They took us on a tour of a fully-equipped school for two students."). I love the little ones with no cars.
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Originally Posted by Marshal
Besides beautiful, outports are so interesting in terms of patterns of settlement.
I have never thought of it before: how does property work? Specifically, how is ownership or control work where buildings are partially or completely over the water and accessed by public wharf? And generally, how does community planning and control work? What form of land use zoning and process is there, especially regarding the public realm? I would guess things have evolved from informal beginnings.
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I read an article about this just the other day.
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A limited form of land ownership was allowed beginning in 1699, connected to the fishing industry. It was only in 1824 that the British government provided the governor the right to grant “waste” land for any purpose (not just to facilitate fishing).
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The Newfoundland government passed its first Crown Lands Act in 1844.
The history of Crown land grants, therefore, begins in the mid-1800s. However, land titles, and the transfer of title between individuals, both exist from the early 1800s.
Despite the passage of the two Acts in 1824 and 1844, which made it easier for individuals to obtain Crown land grants, many individuals continued what had previously been the practice: to claim land as their own simply by “squatters’ rights” or “adverse possession”. That is, once an individual and his/her heirs had lived on the property for an uninterrupted period of time – usually about 20 years – they could claim that land as their own.
Even today, squatters’ rights play a large role in the Newfoundland and Labrador land registration system. Legislation is in place to allow those meeting the requirements to apply for a Crown grant giving them title to ‘their’ land. It appears that Newfoundland and Labrador is the only Canadian province still granting Crown land at a substantial discount or free.The British government attempted to impose a uniform system for the registration of title to property in 1824, and passed a law which stated that all title to property had to be registered within six months. However, this requirement proved impossible to implement fully, due to the isolation of many communities and the difficulties of communicating the law. This requirement was withdrawn, and never reinstated.
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The Crown Lands Registry was created in 1848, under the Crown Grants Registration Act. The Registry currently contains more than 70,000 grants, leases and licences of Crown land. Approximately 1600 titles to Crown land are registered yearly.
About 95% of the land in Newfoundland and Labrador is Crown land.
The Registry of Crown Titles contains land tenure documents, along with background information, applications and legal surveys dating back to the 1830's. A further 1600 titles are added each year.
The register is incomplete, owing to a fire at the Registry Office during the Great Fire of St. John’s in July of 1892, resulting in the loss of 20 volumes of Crown land grants, along with some maps and other records. Some of the records have been re-registered, using copies of the documents which the owners had in their possession. However, a substantial number are still missing.
Since that time, steps have been taken to conserve and preserve any remaining documents. They now are kept in a fire-proof vault.
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http://www.familyhistoryalive.com/La...-Labrador.html
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