On June 26, 2014 the Supreme Court of Canada released a landmark decision concerning Aboriginal rights and title in the Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia1 case. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the Tsilhqot’in Nation holds Aboriginal title to over 4000 square kilometers of land west of Williams Lake. This decision is …
By Gerry NeelyB.A. LL.B. The importance of a homeowner’s association was alluded to in Legally Speaking column 329. The association’s role in a development is equivalent to that of a strata corporation. It provides the mechanism through which the owners of leasehold interests in a development, or a phase of a development, govern the administration of their …
By Gerry NeelyB.A. LL.B. Column 328 referred to the landlord/tenant relationship resulting from the development of reserve lands. Once all levels of approval have been given, for example, to a residential project, a headlease is created between the federal Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs and a developer, as the tenant. This document provides the …
By Gerry NeelyB.A. LL.B. Anyone involved for the first time in the sale of an interest in reserve land will find little that resembles the more usual sale of fee simple land with which we are familiar. The outright sale of reserve land is a rarity, occurring usually as part of a trade of land, because …
The British Columbia Real Estate Association acknowledges that our head office is located on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish Nations of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam). We also acknowledge the other 195 First Nations in British Columbia, as these are the lands we each call home.
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