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You will not want to miss this important and practical professional development webinar – come with your questions!

Back by popular demand, we are pleased to welcome Brent Taylor, Surveyor with Polaris Land Surveying Inc., and Jeff Beddoes, (CLS retired) who will briefly guide us through the complicated process of reading and interpreting a legal survey plan, as well as navigating natural boundaries, riparian areas and associated common law rights. A number of important concepts will be explained, including lawful accretion, lawful erosion, avulsion, ambulatory boundaries, etc.  Learn, with example plans, how a new plan can depict correctly the location of a natural boundary.  

Brent has a long history with legal survey plans, natural boundaries and public education and is often engaged as an expert witness in various litigation matters, many of which involve natural boundaries.  Jeff has been involved in countless files regarding natural boundaries and has emerged as one of the most knowledgeable land surveyors in the province when it comes to natural boundaries.   

We are pleased to invite members of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors (ABCLS) and the BC Society of Landscape Architects (BCSLA) to join us at the PIBC member price.
 

Our Speakers

Brent Taylor, BCLS, CLS
Polaris Land Surveying Inc.

Brent received his commission as a BCLS about 35 years ago and has worked in the private sector since in a variety of capacities. He continues to complete field surveys and prepare plans for filing in the Land Title Register and the Crown Land Registry.  He has had various contracts with the Land Title and Survey Authority to provide guidance in the conversion to electronic plans as well as the development of ParcelMap BC.

He also contracts to the Association of BC Land Surveyors from time to time to develop and facilitate various workshops for their continuing professional development program.  He is often engaged as an expert witness in various litigation matters, many of which involve natural boundaries.

Jeff Beddoes, BCLS non practicing, CLS retired.

Jeff articled in Smithers, British Columbia and received has BC land surveyors commission in 1985.  In 1995 he obtained his Canada Lands Surveyor commission. From 1986-1992 he owned and operated a small practice in Fernie, BC.  In 1992 he joined the Surveyor General Branch of what was then the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management in the position of Senior Land Surveyor.  In 2003 he became the Deputy Surveyor General for the Province.  The Surveyor General Branch and the Land Titles Branch formed the Land Title & Survey Authority in 2005.  Jeff was appointed Senior Deputy Surveyor General in 2006 and held this position in the LTSA until his pseudo retirement in 2018.  He has contributed to a number of Association committees over the years, was elected to the Board of Management in 2001 and served as Association President in 2005.
 

Questions? Please contact the PIBC office by email: office@pibc.bc.ca.