The Surveys Division is comprised of the following sections:

The Surveys Division is responsible for: providing coordination and leadership of the Department’s land surveying program; establishing, maintaining, and monitoring standards for land surveying activities on Crown land, as well as, for departmental survey equipment; administering orders of survey, boundary line maintenance contracts and the distribution of surveying and related information; preparing administrative survey plans and related cartographic documents; developing and managing the Crown land cadastral database; maintaining a registry of Crown lands for all departments and agencies; maintaining and researching records, maps, and title files for interests in Crown lands; and documenting non-resident land holdings.

A related site which would be of interest to anyone whose property is adjacent to Crown owned land and who is contemplating having a survey executed of their property is the Nova Scotia Permits Directory: Crown Lands: Land Survey of Crown Boundary Approval.

Another related land surveying site is: The Association of Nova Scotia Land Surveyors.

For more information, please contact Bruce MacQuarrie, Director of Surveys, Department of Natural Resources, PO Box 698, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2T9, phone: (902) 424-3145 or e-mail at: macquaba@gov.ns.ca