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Explore the comprehensive array of industry resources, free online tools, expert advice and insider information available on protectyourboundaries.ca—and discover the real advantages of becoming BoundaryWise™.

Learn about your property rights and land boundaries, and how to protect them. Get help with planning your land development project, resolving boundary issues and disputes, and obtaining the up-to-date information you need to make vital decisions. Preview and purchase an existing property survey and engage professional survey services, including assistance with real-time market demands, submissions to approval agencies and more.

Protect Your Boundaries will help you understand the what, where and why of your property boundaries, as well as when to engage a licensed surveyor, how a surveyor accurately marks your boundary line and who offers specialized survey expertise in Ontario. Use our online tools to research property survey information dating back more than a century. Acquire property documents associated with your land, schedule a new survey to be performed on your property and commission the creation of a Surveyor's Real Property Report(SRPR).

An SRPR is one of the best Land Information products available for property owners. It features graphically displayed title information about your property, including boundary dimensions, building and fence locations, easement locations, encroachments and other possessory evidence, with potential title issues detailed in the written component of the report. If the SRPR involves construction of a building or addition, then topographic information including elevations and ground features can be added to the report to produce a boundary and topographic plan for municipal approval.

Simpler construction projects like building a boundary fence may require determining the precise location of property boundaries. You can engage a surveyor to come to your property and stake out one or all of your boundaries and set permanent survey monuments at each corner of your property.

Certain situations may arise where you will need to obtain a Reference Plan. This might be part of a municipal-approval submission, a condition of severance approval or to rectify a title deficiency. These plans, (commonly called R-plans) differ from an SRPR in that they are entered into the public record. They show boundaries of specific aspects of a property including any title features requiring a more detailed description, such as a property easement, encroachment, or special situation.

For example, some older residential properties in Toronto share a mutual driveway with just enough space for a single car to pass between the two houses to access the rear garages. If this arrangement was never formalized and described in the property deeds, you may need to have the locations shown on a new R-Plan and have your lawyer register these interests in land with the registry office. In future both the plan and the easement documents will be shown in the Parcel Register.

Our advice: Be BoundaryWise™. Get answers to your property boundary questions and use our online tools and services to acquire your property survey plan and Protect Your Boundaries™.