Plan is our drawing of every layer in this report on one sheet, with contours every 20 m (-1–193 m above sea level) from NRCan's 30 m elevation model: the sheet that prints. Drawn from the sources in each section; lines can be metres off. Not a survey.

26 public records

What these mean

Look into: Something on or near this lot that's worth checking before you buy. Each section decides it for this lot from its own records: Winter sun, for one, only where the hills block much of the December sun.
This lot: The lot's own ground (zoning, slope, water, access, wells, septic), with nothing in the record to look into. Shown in full.
Background: Figures for the place around the lot (earthquakes, climate, services, taxes and the like) that read much the same for its neighbours. One line each; open one to read it.
Nothing found: Checked, and nothing on the record here.
Not covered: What these public records can't answer for this lot.

Each count is the sections in that group; the strip shows them in page order. Every finding names its source.

Around the lot

Nearest of each, from the lot's edge

Wateron or at the lota stream
Public roadon or at the lotlane or service road
Logging or Crown land planon or at the lotCrown land application (log handling or storage)
Forest Service or permit roadon or at the lota road permit road (file R06345, section RAILWAY)
Water well5 ma water-supply well on record

Nothing within 420 m: wildfire, power line, pipeline, gravel pit or quarry, military land, railway, highway or major road, airport or airstrip, farmland reserve, floodplain map, mineral or placer title. Measured by us on the plan's lines, so expect a few metres either way. Each section has the official figures.

Look into4

Found on or near this lot, and worth checking before you buy.

§04Floodplain Look into

The lot is low-lying, near sea level: its middle is about 4 m above sea level on NRCan's 30 m elevation model (our reading), yet it isn't on one of the province's designated floodplain maps.

Ground this close to sea level, by the sea or a tidal river such as the lower Fraser, can flood in a storm surge or a high river, and land behind a dike floods when the dike is overtopped or breached (our reading). The province's maps leave much of such land out. Ask the local government for its flood construction level, any newer flood mapping, and whether the lot is in a diking area. The height is our reading of NRCan's elevation model, on a datum close to mean sea level; a BC land surveyor's survey decides.

The record

Ground height: Its middle is about 4 m above sea level on NRCan's 30 m elevation model (our reading, not a survey)
Dams nearby: None within 1 km on the Province's list of dams
Dikes nearby: None within 1 km on the Province's map of dikes and flood protection works

These maps were drawn mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and cover only some rivers and lakes. Not being on one doesn't mean the land can't flood: ask the local government whether it has newer flood mapping, and whether its bylaws set a flood construction level or floodplain setback here.

Sources (4)

Floodplain areas (designated floodplain mapping), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Flood Protection Works: Structural Works, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BC Dams, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

What a floodplain map means, and what it doesn't cover →

Flood insurance and disaster assistance: what is covered, and what isn't →

Sea level rise: what BC plans for on the coast →

§07Water and streamside setbacks Look into

Mapped water on or within 30 m of the parcel: 3 unnamed streams and the ocean shore.

Water nearby limits where you can build, clear or fill. In the regional districts covered by the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, development within 30 m of a stream, lake or wetland needs a qualified environmental professional's assessment first; elsewhere the local bylaw sets its own setbacks, and any work in or next to a stream needs approval under the Water Sustainability Act. Ask the local government which rules apply here.

The recordwater and 30 m strip on the plan

Within 30 m: 3 unnamed streams and the ocean shore
On the parcel: 3 unnamed streams and the ocean shore
Fish recorded in the water by the lot: An unnamed stream (within 50 m of the lot): sculpin (species not given), Coho Salmon, Threespine Stickleback, Chum Salmon (8 records, in 2016)
The shore in front (the Province's ShoreZone mapping, 100 m): Man-made shore, permeable (such as riprap), wave exposure protected, about 950 m along the lot (Bever Cove); Man-made shore, permeable (such as riprap), wave exposure protected, about 150 m along the lot (Bever Cove); Man-made shore, impermeable (such as a seawall), wave exposure protected, about 90 m along the lot (Bever Cove); and 2 more
Docks and moorage on the Province's register (50 m): No moorage tenure on the Province's register within 50 m

The Freshwater Atlas is mapped at 1:20,000, so a line can be tens of metres from the real bank and small streams can be missing. A site survey sets the actual setback.

The Province's fish records come from surveys, fisheries work and permits, so they cover the waters someone sampled: a record says a fish was found somewhere in that water, not by this lot, and no record doesn't mean no fish (our reading). A qualified environmental professional decides whether the water by the lot is fish habitat. Under the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, in the regional districts and the Islands Trust area it names, a residential, commercial or industrial development within a stream's riparian assessment area (30 m from the stream in most cases) needs a qualified environmental professional's assessment when the stream provides fish habitat to protected fish: salmon, trout, char and the other salmonids, game fish, and fish listed under the federal Species at Risk Act (ss. 1 to 3). A "stream" there includes lakes, and ditches, springs and wetlands connected to one by surface flow. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.

ShoreZone is the Province's mapping of the coast from aerial imagery flown at the lowest tides of the year. Its shore type is the material and form between the tides (rock, a gravel, sand or mud beach or flat, an estuary, or a man-made shore), and wide or narrow is the width between the high and low tide lines, over or under 30 m. Its wave exposure class comes from the longest stretch of open water waves can build over: very protected under 1 km, protected under 10 km, semi-protected 10 to 50 km (waves low most of the time except in high winds), semi-exposed 50 to 500 km (swell, and very large waves in storms), exposed 500 to 1,000 km, very exposed over 1,000 km (open Pacific swell). A wide flat in front can leave a dock or boat launch dry at low tide, and an exposed shore takes the brunt of winter storms (our reading). The layer gives no year for each stretch: a beach can have moved, and a seawall or dock been built, since it was mapped, and "along the lot" is our reading of lines drawn at map scale, within 50 m of the lot line. Look at the shore at a low tide before you buy. Our summary of the Province's Physical Shore-Zone Mapping System (2005), read 2026-10-11. The lines here are drawn at 1:40,000.

The foreshore and the bed of a lake, river or the sea below the natural boundary (the visible high water mark) are almost all Crown land in BC, whoever owns the lot behind them, so a dock, boat lift or ramp on them needs the Province's authorization under the Land Act, and must leave the public's way along the foreshore open. The Province's General Permission for private moorage authorizes one dock fronting a lot without an application when the dock's owner owns or leases that lot, it's for private residential moorage only, it isn't over an archaeological site, eelgrass, a park, ecological reserve or protected area, or in an application-only area or a Land Act reserve, no other tenure covers that foreshore, and it's built within the permission's limits: floating or held above the water, no fill, dredging, cribs or solid core, no boathouse, roof, deck or shed, at least 5 m from the side lot line projected out over the water (6 m beside a public beach access or park) and 10 m from another dock, and on a lake or river no more than 42 m out with a float up to 3 m and a walkway up to 1.5 m wide (on the sea 60 m out, a 14 by 3.7 m float, and a biologist's marine habitat assessment before a new dock). Otherwise the dock needs a specific permission or a lease, applied for through FrontCounter BC. Building in or about a lake, river or stream also needs a Water Sustainability Act s. 11 notification or approval, and the local government's zoning and bylaws apply as well. Our summary of the Province's private moorage page and its General Permission (May 9, 2024), checked 2026-10-07.

A dock under the General Permission needs no application, so it isn't on the register: no tenure listed here doesn't mean there's no dock, or that a dock on the shore isn't authorized (our reading). Ask the seller how an existing dock is authorized, and FrontCounter BC (1-877-855-3222) before building or changing one.

Sources (8)

Freshwater Atlas (streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, coastline), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Known BC Fish Observations and BC Fish Distributions, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, B.C. Reg. 178/2019, ss. 1 to 3 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-11); Shore Unit Classifications – Line (ShoreZone), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Physical Shore-Zone Mapping System for British Columbia, Province of BC (2005) (the classes summarised in our words, read 2026-10-11); TANTALIS Crown tenures, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Land use – private moorage, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07); Provincial General Permission for the Use of Crown Land for Private Moorage (Land Act), version of May 9, 2024 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07).

Which streamside rules apply, and where →

Docks and moorage: what the Province allows on the foreshore →

§03Buildable area Look into

About 5.9 ha (54%) of the lot is clear of steep slope and water setbacks; 46% is in or within 30 m of mapped water.

Clear 54%
Within 30 m of water 46%

Share of the lot's grid cells (30 m), each counted once: water first, then the 30 m strip, then steep slope.

Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model: each dot on the plan is one 30 m cell. Small banks, gullies and benches can be smoothed out, and on lots under a few hectares the edges count for a lot. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.

The recordbuildable area on the plan

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks: 5.9 ha (54%)
In or within 30 m of mapped water: 46%
Steeper than 30%, outside that strip: 0%
15 to 30% slope: 6%
On designated floodplain (counted as clear): 0%
Median slope: 3%
Main slope direction: Mostly flat (slopes under 5%); measured by us on NRCan's 30 m elevation model
Which way it faces: 0% south (SE to SW), 7% north (NW to NE), 72% flat; the rest east or west
Terrain stability (Vancouver Island Geomorphology): Over about 35% of the lot, the Province's terrain stability mapping, mapped at 1:50,000 gives no stability class, so it says nothing either way
Karst-prone rock (the Province's reconnaissance map): Not on the Province's karst map: the rock mapped under the area isn't one it rates as forming karst, at a scale of about 1:250,000

Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.

Sources (4)

Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas and designated floodplain maps, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Terrain Stability Mapping (TSM) Detailed Polygons, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Reconnaissance Karst Potential Mapping, Province of BC (Ministry of Forests, 2002) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

How the buildable share is measured, and what it leaves out →

Archaeological sites: protected whether recorded or not, and how to ask →

§12What's planned nearby Look into

Within 1 km: 2 applications for Crown land (waterpower and log handling or storage). The Province's map draws Tree Farm Licence 37 over part of the lot. Beside the lot: Crown land with no title on the north and west sides. The Province's register of Crown land reserves draws notation of interest for a proposed protected area over the lot. A sewage treatment or discharge about 60 m from the lot line holds a waste discharge authorization to discharge to water or land (effluent) (5291). Major projects within 10 km on the Environmental Assessment Office's register: Kokish River Hydroelectric (power plant, about 980 m away, certificate issued Nov 24, 2011, operating).

Project	Decision	Phase	From the lot
Kokish River HydroelectricPower Plants	Certificate Issued, Nov 24, 2011	Post Decision – Operation	About 980 m away

Major projects on the Environmental Assessment Office's register within 10 km, in assessment or approved; each name opens its EAO page. Distances run from the lot line to the single point the EAO gives for the project, which a mine, pipeline or line can reach well past. Closed ones are in the record below.

Cutblocks are from the province's forest tenure records, which cover Crown forest licences and woodlots, not logging on private land. Crown land applications are on the province's tenure register; the Applications, Comments and Reasons for Decision site takes public comments on them. Mineral and placer claims are in their own section above.

The recordcutblocks and crown land applications on the plan

Cutblocks applied for (1 km): 0
Approved, not yet logged (1 km): 0
Logged in the last 5 years (1 km): 2
Old growth set aside from logging (1 km): None within 1 km on the Province's map of legal old growth management areas
Trails on the Province's maps (1 km): None within 1 km on the Province's recreation trail and historic trail maps, and no OpenStreetMap path along or across the lot
Woodlots and community forests (1 km): None within 1 km on the Province's map of woodlot licences and community forests
Tree farm licences (1 km): Tree Farm Licence 37, Crown land in the licence: its mapped boundary takes in part of the lot; Tree Farm Licence 37, Crown-granted (private) land in the licence (Schedule A): along the lot line (our reading); Tree Farm Licence 47, Crown land in the licence: 720 m from the lot line
Crown land applications (1 km): waterpower, log handling or storage
Quarry, industry, energy or tower tenures (500 m): None
Along the lot line: Private land along about 55% of the lot line (the north, east and south sides); Crown land with no title along about 45% of the lot line (the north and west sides)
Rights of way and easements drawn on the lot: None drawn on ParcelMap BC; a charge with no plan can still be on the title, so ask for it
Wildlife conservation land (1 km): Beaver Cove, Crown land reserved for fish and wildlife by order in council: along the lot line (our reading)
Crown land reserves and notations (1 km): Notation of interest for a proposed protected area, file 1415380: expires December 12, 2032, its mapped area takes in the lot
Local development applications: Not covered here: we read applications only where the local government publishes them as open data (the CSRD, the City of Surrey, the City of Abbotsford and the District of Squamish). Ask the Regional District of Mount Waddington what's in progress on and near the lot
Crown range tenures (1 km): None within 1 km on the Province's map
Registered trapline: The lot is inside trapline area T_0111T810 on the Province's map
Guide outfitter territory: The lot is inside guiding territory 100G101 (Vancouver Island region) on the Province's map
Nearest power line (200 m): None mapped within 200 m
Oil and gas pipelines (200 m): None within 200 m on the BC Energy Regulator's permit map
Gravel pits, quarries and mine permits (2 km): None within 2 km on the Province's map
Permitted discharges to air, water and land (2 km): A sewage treatment or discharge, about 60 m from the lot line, may discharge to water or land (effluent), under a permit (authorization 5291, 1978); A sewage treatment or discharge, about 1,050 m from the lot line (position given to about 100 m), may discharge to water or land (effluent), under a permit (authorization 12496, 1994); A sawmill or other primary wood processing, about 1,100 m from the lot line (position given only roughly, to about a kilometre), may discharge to land (refuse), under a permit (authorization 5263, 1978); A sawmill or other primary wood processing, about 1,250 m from the lot line (position given to about 100 m), may discharge to air and land (refuse), under a permit (authorization 11550, 1993); A composting site, about 1,300 m from the lot line, registered under the Organic Matter Recycling Regulation (authorization 100178, 2008); and 2 more
Military land (2 km): None within 2 km on OpenStreetMap
Major projects in assessment (10 km): None
Major projects approved (10 km): Kokish River Hydroelectric (power plant; about 980 m away; certificate issued Nov 24, 2011, operating)
Reviewed, no assessment needed (10 km): None
Closed or not reviewable (10 km): None

Some landscape units have no mapped areas and keep old forest by a share set in a provincial order instead, so none on the map doesn't mean the forest nearby can be logged. Our summary, read 2026-10-11.

A tree farm licence gives its holder the sole right to log the Crown timber in its area for 25 years, and the Province can offer a replacement from the licence's fifth year, so most run on for decades (Forest Act ss. 35 (1) (a), (e), 36; our reading). The holder must follow an approved management plan for the whole licence area (s. 35.2). Besides Crown land, a licence's area can take in private land and Crown land under an old timber licence, which the licence lists in its Schedule A (s. 35 (1) (b)). Timber licence land stays in the licence when the timber licence ends (s. 37), private land handed to the Province stays in it (s. 38), and private land comes out only when the Ministry changes the licence's boundary with the holder's consent (s. 39.1). The Province's open maps don't name a licence's holder; the natural resource district of the Ministry of Forests can say who it is. Our summary of the Forest Act, read 2026-10-11.

Who owns the land beside the lot is ParcelMap BC's owner type for each parcel that shares the lot line (measured by us along the line); the open parcel map names no owners. Crown land beside a lot, with a title or without, can be logged, leased, grazed or roaded, and a view or trail across it isn't yours to keep; ask the natural resource district or FrontCounter BC. Land owned by the local government is often a park, a road allowance or a utility lot; ask the local government what it's for.

Conservation lands are held or reserved by the Province for fish and wildlife habitat, so land beside the lot that is one of them most likely stays undeveloped (our reading). Nobody may use land or resources in a wildlife management area without the regional manager's written permission (Wildlife Act s. 4 (4)), which most likely takes in a path, a water line or a fence across it (our reading), and harming habitat there is an offence (s. 7). Crown land reserved (Land Act s. 15) or withdrawn (s. 16) from disposition, an order-in-council reserve or a map reserve, isn't open to the usual applications: the Province may refuse to receive one (s. 10 (3)), so buying a piece of it to add to a lot most likely won't work (our reading). A designated use area (s. 17) is withdrawn for any use that doesn't fit its purpose; a notation of interest doesn't stop applications, but the Province weighs the conservation interest. The map covers land the Province holds, leases or reserves for fish and wildlife; land trusts' own properties, conservation covenants and regional parks aren't on it unless the Province administers them (our reading). Our summary of the Wildlife Act and the Land Act, read 2026-10-11.

The Province can set Crown land aside for a purpose, such as a gravel source, a road, a communication site, recreation or a treaty. Cabinet can reserve it by order in council (Land Act s. 15); the minister can withdraw it from disposition for a time, a map reserve (s. 16), or designate it for one use, a designated use area, which withdraws it from any use that doesn't fit (s. 17). A notation of interest isn't a reserve: it marks another agency's interest, so that agency is asked before the Province decides an application there (our reading). A notation along the lot doesn't stop an application for that land, but the agency that holds it is asked first (our reading). A reserve or notation binds Crown land only. Where its mapped area takes in a titled lot, it was most likely drawn round a wider area, or Crown land lies inside the lot's lines, such as a road allowance or the foreshore (our reading); ask FrontCounter BC (1-877-855-3222) what the file covers. Reserves and notations for fish and wildlife that the Province's conservation lands map holds are listed under wildlife conservation land, not again here. A reserve gives no date for when its purpose is used, if ever. Our summary of the Land Act, read 2026-10-12.

A trapline gives its registered holder the right to trap fur-bearing animals in the area, but traplines are registered on Crown land: on titled land the owner or occupier may trap, and anyone else needs their written permission (Wildlife Act ss. 41, 42); trapping on cultivated land without the owner's consent is an offence (s. 39). Traps and trappers' trails are likely on the Crown land around the lot. The trapline map's lines are broad and are drawn over private land too (our reading). Our summary of the Wildlife Act, read 2026-10-07.

A guiding territory lets one guide outfitter take hunters for game in that area. It gives no right in wildlife and doesn't restrict anyone else's right to hunt (Wildlife Act s. 67); hunting over cultivated land needs the owner's consent (s. 39), and the Trespass Act governs who may come onto private land. Guided hunters may be on the Crown land nearby in season. Our summary of the Wildlife Act, read 2026-10-07.

Who holds a trapline or territory isn't shown here; the Province's regional Fish and Wildlife office can say who to talk to.

Major projects are those large enough to need a provincial environmental assessment: mines, power plants, pipelines, transmission lines, highways, ports, dams and resorts, among others. Each is on the Environmental Assessment Office's register at a single point, the location it gives for the project. A mine, pipeline, transmission line or road can reach well past that point, so a project listed 8 km away can still pass the lot, and one placed beyond 10 km isn't listed here. Each project's page on the EAO's site has its maps, documents and comment periods; distances are measured by us from the lot line to the point. Smaller projects (subdivisions, smaller pits and quarries, and other works under the assessment thresholds) aren't on this register.

Power lines are from two maps read together: the Province's map of high-voltage transmission lines (BC Hydro's, private and independent producers' lines), which leaves voltages out, and OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map lines and record the voltage where it's known. Smaller distribution lines along streets aren't included. Distances are measured by us from the lot line to the mapped line, which can sit some metres off the real one. The line's right of way, and what it lets the line's owner do on the land, is set by the easement on title, which is the definitive record: check it in the title search, and ask BC Hydro (or the line's owner) about clearances for building and trees.

Permitted discharges are from the Province's list of active waste discharge authorizations under the Environmental Management Act: permits, approvals and operational certificates, and sites registered under its regulations and codes of practice (sewage, fuel storage, vehicle recycling, concrete, asphalt, composting and others). Each is one point the Province gives for the site, which can be a plant's office or an outfall rather than the ground worked; distances are measured by us from the lot line to that point. Metro Vancouver issues its own air quality permits, which aren't on this list, and the Province's Site Registry of contaminated sites charges for searches and isn't shown here.

An authorization sets what may be discharged, how much and on what conditions; it doesn't mean the site is out of compliance. The Province's Authorization Management System search shows each authorization's documents by its number. Odour, dust and noise are often for the local government too: ask the regional district or city, and the Province's environmental protection office about the authorization.

Sources (28)

Power lines near a lot: rights of way, building, trees and health →

Getting power to a lot: who connects it and who pays →

Permitted discharges near a lot: what an authorization allows →

Logging and Crown land use planned near a lot →

Traplines and guiding territories: who may trap or hunt on the land →

Hunting and shooting on your own property: what still applies →

Crown land next door: what it means, and whether you can buy it →

For reference12

What the records say, with nothing in them to look into.

About this lot 4

§02What you can build (zoning) For reference

We can't tell which zone this lot is in: the Regional District of Mount Waddington doesn't publish its zoning map as open data. Here is what the rural zones of its bylaw allow; ask the RDMW's planning department which zone applies.

Zone	Smallest new lot	Homes
A-1Rural	4 ha	One house or one duplex; with a house, a secondary suite or a cabin (a second detached home up to 93 m², on a lot of at least 1 ha, which may be rented out)
RA-1Small Holdings	0.8 ha, with 50 m of frontage	One house
RR-1Rural Residential	0.4 ha, with 35 m of frontage	One house

Which of these zones this lot is in is unknown. Each zone's uses, setbacks and limits: all zones side by side.

The recordthe lot on the plan

Zone: Unclear: ask the RDMW's planning department
Zoning bylaw: RDMW Zoning Bylaw No. 21, 1972, Regional District of Mount Waddington
Where it applies: Bylaw No. 21 zones most of the rural district, and land it doesn't place in another zone is Rural (A-1). Alder Bay, Coal Harbour, Hyde Creek, Malcolm Island, Quatsino, Telegraph Cove and Woss have bylaws of their own, and Indian Reserves are outside it.
Our summary: The rural zones only, checked against the bylaw on 2026-10-02 (the bylaw consolidated to 2020-02-18)
Heritage conservation area: None over the lot on the Province's list of local heritage conservation areas (a newly designated one may not be listed yet, and single buildings protected by a heritage bylaw aren't on it)
Fewest homes provincial law requires: If the lot is zoned for only detached houses (unclear here), the Regional District of Mount Waddington must allow at least one secondary suite or detached accessory home (a garden suite or carriage house) next to a house. A floor of 3 or 4 homes applies on rural land only inside an urban containment boundary drawn in a regional growth strategy, and most rural land is outside one; whether this lot is, is unclear here.
Transit-oriented area (provincial minimum): Not in one: the Province sets transit-oriented areas only around the SkyTrain, West Coast Express and bus exchange stations its regulations list, in Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, Delta, the Langleys, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, the North Vancouvers, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Victoria, Saanich, Langford, Colwood, View Royal, Nanaimo, Lantzville, Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon, Penticton, Prince George and Whistler, and this lot is outside a municipality (B.C. Reg. 263/2023, checked 2026-10-06).
Short-term rentals (provincial rule): The Province's principal residence requirement doesn't apply in Electoral Area D of the Regional District of Mount Waddington (list in force from June 1, 2026), so the provincial rule doesn't limit short-term rentals to the host's home. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry.

Ask the RDMW's planning department which zone this lot is in, or find it on the RDMW's page of community bylaws and zoning maps: the rules shown apply only in that zone, and the bylaw has other zones we haven't summarised.

Zoning is only one layer: the ALR, development permit areas, the official community plan, building and septic permits and provincial housing rules can add limits or allow more. Confirm with the RDMW's planning department before you buy or build.

The provincial floor is our summary of the small-scale multi-unit housing rules in the Local Government Act (ss. 481.3 and 481.4) and the Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, checked 2026-10-04. Local governments had to bring their bylaws in line by June 30, 2024, and with the 2025 changes by June 30, 2026, so the zone's own rules usually allow at least these homes already; height, coverage, setbacks and parking still decide how they fit. Whether the lot is inside an urban containment boundary, on community water or sewer, or near a frequent bus stop isn't checked here: confirm with the local government before you buy or build.

Sources (11)

RDMW Zoning Bylaw No. 21, 1972, Regional District of Mount Waddington (bylaw text, summarised in our words); Every rural zone side by side (our summary); RDMW's page of community bylaws and zoning maps (Regional District of Mount Waddington, for looking up a lot; not open data); Heritage Conservation Areas of BC, Heritage Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Local Government Act, ss. 481.3 and 481.4 (small-scale multi-family housing), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, B.C. Reg. 262/2023, BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); Small-scale, multi-unit housing, Province of BC (page updated January 20, 2026), and its Provincial Policy Manual (summarised in our words); Local Government Transit-Oriented Areas Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2023 (consolidated to September 29, 2026), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-06); Local Government Act, s. 481.01 (zoning in transit-oriented areas), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-06); Principal residence requirement, Province of BC (page updated September 21, 2026) (summarised in our words); Electoral Areas – Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

Short-term rental rules in BC →

Work done without a permit: what it means for a buyer →

Official records on a property: what's public, and how to look them up →

What a seller must tell you, and what you have to find out yourself →

§08Water wells nearby For reference

14 water-supply wells on record within 2 km; typical depth 41 m, typical tested yield 757 L/min. The lot is over mapped aquifer 1245 (Beaver Cove), confined sand and gravel (glacial), rated moderate vulnerability; productivity not rated. The aquifer here is rated high for sea water intrusion on the Province's map.

The recordwater wells on the plan

Wells within 2 km: 14
Median depth: 41 m
Median tested yield: 757 L/min (13 wells tested)
Median water level below ground: 10 m
Aquifer 1245 under the lot: Beaver Cove: confined sand and gravel (glacial); productivity not rated, vulnerability moderate, demand not rated; 12 wells linked, median depth 40.1 m
Sea water intrusion: High (5 on the Province's scale of five, Low to High) for the sand and gravel aquifer under the lot in the 2021 assessment, rated on the aquifer's setting (its material, slope, distance from the sea and ground water level) and pumping nearby (how many wells, and what for); other ratings over the lot: moderately high, moderately low and low (per the Province's map)
Observation well 201: 7.3 km from the lot's middle: water level stable or no clear trend over 2014 to 2023; water typically 6 m below ground in a well 11 m deep (the Province's trend, records to December 2023)
Groundwater tested 6.6 km away: At the Province's observation well 201, in aquifer 858: within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L (medians): arsenic under detection, fluoride 0.025, manganese 0.015, uranium 0.00001, nitrate (as nitrogen) 1.4, lead 0.00005; manganese over the 0.02 mg/L taste and staining level in 1 of 3 samples; up to 3 samples, 2006 to 2015. Not this lot's water: test your own well.
Groundwater tested 7.2 km away: At the Province's observation well 202, in aquifer 858: within Health Canada's limits, in mg/L: arsenic 0.0014, manganese 0.000008, uranium 0.00043, nitrate (as nitrogen) 0.48, lead 0.00009; 1 sample, 2006. Not this lot's water: test your own well.
Drinking-water protection zone: None over the lot on the Province's map (it holds only the zones a water system's protection plan has mapped, so many wells and intakes have none on it)
Water systems' wells and intakes within 300 m: None on the Province's list
Community watershed: None over the lot on the Province's map
Water licences on springs and drinking-water diversions (300 m): None within 300 m on the Province's open maps
Water use cut back for fish (temporary protection orders): No temporary protection order has covered this lot on the Province's map

Neighbours' wells show what drillers found nearby, not what a new well here will find; many wells were never registered. For a property on a well, ask for a recent flow test and water quality test.

Productivity is how much water the aquifer gives up to wells; vulnerability is how easily a spill at the surface could reach it; both are the province's ratings for the whole aquifer, not this lot. Mapped aquifers cover mostly settled valleys: a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

The Province's map is a regional screening of how easily sea water could be drawn into a coastal aquifer, not a test of any well. Near the sea, fresh ground water floats on salt water, and a well near the shore can turn salty with pumping, its own or its neighbours'; once in, the salt can take years to clear or stay for good, and a well must not be run in a way that draws it in (Water Sustainability Act, s. 58). The Province advises well owners near the coast to test for chloride and electrical conductivity once a year, in the dry season: a well over 150 mg/L of chloride or 1,000 µS/cm counts as affected, and water tastes salty from about 250 mg/L. For a property on a well here, ask for chloride and conductivity in the well water test. Our summary, read 2026-10-07.

Observation wells are the Province's monitoring wells, their water level measured for years or decades. The trend is the Province's reading of one well's yearly levels: a decline of 3 to 10 cm a year that the record clearly shows is a moderate rate, 10 cm or more a large one, anything not clear is stable or no clear trend. It shows how the aquifer has behaved there, not what a well on this lot will give; confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

These are samples of raw water, before any treatment, from wells in the Province's environmental monitoring records since 2000: its observation wells and groundwater surveys, water systems' wells and other drinking-water wells; wells at landfills, mines and permit holders' works are left out. A result below the lab's detection limit counts at that limit. Lead mostly comes from a well's pipes and fittings rather than the aquifer. Groundwater changes over short distances and with depth, so a nearby well says what the aquifer can hold, not what a well on this lot gives. Bacteria aren't shown: they depend on how each well is built and kept.

Health Canada's Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality set the most a drinking water should hold: arsenic 0.010 mg/L, fluoride 1.5 mg/L, manganese 0.12 mg/L (and 0.02 mg/L for taste and for staining laundry and fixtures), uranium 0.02 mg/L, nitrate 10 mg/L as nitrogen (45 mg/L as nitrate) and lead 0.005 mg/L, with arsenic and lead kept as low as reasonably achievable. Our summary of Health Canada's summary table, read 2026-10-11.

Test your own well, for bacteria and these, at an accredited lab; your health authority can say which labs take samples from private wells.

These are the Province's open maps of licensed springs and of points where drinking water is diverted from a stream for two or more homes or a water system. Other water licences (a creek diverted for one house, irrigation, storage) are only in the Province's water rights databases, which aren't open data, so no licence listed here doesn't mean none is held on or near the lot (our reading). Ask the seller whether a water licence comes with the land, its number and what it allows, and look it up by number or by the creek's or spring's name in the Province's Water Licence Search; FrontCounter BC (1-877-855-3222) answers questions about licences.

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What to ask about a well before you buy →

Drilling a new well: who may drill it and what's filed →

What BC's well water tests for, by place →

§09Septic For reference

About 5.7 ha (52%) of the lot is at least 30 m from mapped water and recorded wells, 3 m in from the lot lines and under 25% slope, where the Province's manual allows most kinds of septic field. Whether the soil can take a field (its depth, the water table and how fast water drains) needs a site visit.

The record

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m: 3, nearest about 5 m outside it; well tags 95668, 95659, 95664
Mapped water within 30 m: 3 unnamed streams and the ocean shore
Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches): 5.7 ha (51%)
Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches): 5.7 ha (52%)
Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches): 5.7 ha (52%)

Screening, not a site assessment: measured by us on the same elevation cells as the buildable area, against the separations in the Province's Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual: a field stays 30 m from a drinking-water well (60 to 90 m from a high-pumping one), 30 m from a lake, river or permanent stream (15 m from seasonal water and the sea), 7.5 m from a downslope drain or bank where effluent could break out, and, as a guideline, 3 m from the lot line. We use 30 m for every mapped stream. A gravity field isn't allowed on slopes over 15%, a mound or at-grade bed over 25%, and trenches over 45%.

Under the Sewerage System Regulation, only an Authorized Person (a Registered Onsite Wastewater Practitioner or a professional engineer or geoscientist) may plan and install a system, and they file the plans with the regional health authority before work starts. They dig test pits to check the soil depth and the seasonal water table and measure how fast the soil drains, which no open map shows. Ask the seller for the filing and maintenance records of an existing system, and have it inspected.

Well locations in GWELLS are often approximate, and many wells were never registered: look for well caps on and next to the lot. Wells, water lines and septic fields on the neighbours' land count too.

If the lot is on a community sewer, none of this applies; ask the local government, which may also set larger setbacks or a minimum lot size for septic.

Sources (7)

Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual, version 3 (2014), Province of BC: Tables II-6, II-19 and III-16, summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04 (summarised in our words); Sewerage System Regulation, B.C. Reg. 326/2004, summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04 (summarised in our words); Groundwater wells (GWELLS), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas and designated floodplain maps, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Terrain Stability Mapping (TSM) Detailed Polygons, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Reconnaissance Karst Potential Mapping, Province of BC (Ministry of Forests, 2002) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

Septic rules in BC, and what a buyer should check →

Buying a home on a septic system: the records and the inspection →

§21Winter sun For reference

On December 21 the hills leave about 5 h 20 min of possible direct sun at the lot's middle, against 7 h 50 min on open ground at this latitude. (Our estimate from the terrain; trees and buildings not counted.) The ground also allows a view of the sea to the northwest (our reading). Mount Philley is in sight, 98 km to the north-northeast (our reading).

The skyline from the middle of the lot, read by us from NRCan's elevation model every 5°, and the sun's path on December 21, March 21 and June 21: solid where the sun clears the hills, dotted where they hide it. Angles are drawn true to scale. The blue band marks water the ground lets you see from there (east through south to west).

The record

December 21 (shortest day): 5 h 20 min of possible direct sun; 7 h 50 min on open ground
March 21 (about the same on September 21): 9 h 20 min; 12 h on open ground
June 21 (longest day): 14 h 40 min; 16 h 10 min on open ground
Noon sun on December 21: 16° above level; the hills due south rise to 8°, 0.7 km away
Highest hills in the winter sun's path: 16° above level to the south-east, 0.3 km away
Measured at: The middle of the lot, ground at about 5 m, from head height
Solar panel output (south-facing, tilted at the latitude): About 830 kWh a year for each kW of panels (December about 28), on Natural Resources Canada's 1998-2022 sunshine map; the sun on the panel's face is 3.04 kWh/m² a day over the year, 1.21 in December
Water the ground lets you see (16 km): The sea (our reading of the elevation model) to the northwest, from about 150 m away, across about 130° of the horizon; Kokish River to the west, from about 600 m away, across about 50° of the horizon
Highest skyline: 16° above level to the southeast, 0.3 km away
Named peaks in view (150 km): Mount Philley to the north-northeast, 98 km away (about 2,112 m); Mount Stephens to the north-northeast, 51 km away (about 1,494 m); Snowdrift Mountain to the north-northeast, 64 km away (about 1,381 m); Mount Benedict to the north-northeast, 63 km away (about 1,264 m); Mount Plowden to the north-northeast, 57 km away (about 1,194 m); and 11 more
Highest ground in view: About 2,112 m: Mount Philley, to the north-northeast, 98 km away
Farthest ground in view: About 98 km to the north-northeast: Mount Philley
Most relief in one direction: To the north-northeast: from sea level, 0.5 km away, up to about 1,758 m, 64 km away
Town centres in line of sight: None within 150 km, over the bare ground
City lights in direct line (150 km): None over the bare ground: the lit towns within 150 km are behind the hills or the curve of the earth (our reading)

Computed by us from the terrain only: trees, buildings and cloud aren't counted, so the sun that reaches a window or a garden is often less. The hours are possible direct sun, counted from when the sun's centre clears the hills, at head height at the middle of the lot; another spot on a hillside lot can differ.

The horizon is read from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model in 72 directions, out to 16 km: on its 30 m grid within 1.5 km, beyond that on a 120 m version of it, where single peaks can read a little lower than they are. The curve of the earth is taken into account.

The sun's path is from the standard solar position formulas. Hours are counted in sun time; clock times shift with daylight saving and with how far the lot is from its time zone's centre.

Check it on site: visit on a clear day in December or January, look at where the trees and buildings to the south fall, and ask neighbours when the sun leaves and comes back.

The panel output is our reading of Natural Resources Canada's figures: its map gives the sun reaching a south-facing panel tilted at the latitude, averaged over 1998-2022 on a grid of about 10 km, and we turn it into kWh for each kW of panels at the performance ratio its Photovoltaic Potential maps use (0.75: losses in heat, wiring, the inverter and dirt). The map is for an open sky: the hills around the lot, trees, buildings and snow on the panels aren't counted. The hills around this lot take about 31% of the direct sun on December 21 and about 9% on June 21 (our figure above), so a panel at the lot's middle would most likely make less than this, most of all in winter (our reading; the hills block direct sun, not all the light). A solar installer measures the roof or the spot itself.

What the ground allows you to see from head height at the middle of the lot, read by us on the same elevation model as the sun hours, out to 16 km: trees, buildings and the house's own spot and height aren't counted, so a view the ground allows can be hidden by the forest, and a second storey can see over a rise. Lakes and rivers are the Freshwater Atlas's; the sea is read where the elevation model sits at sea level.

Peaks, towns and the farthest ground are read by us out to 150 km on the same elevation model, coarser past 16 km (cells of 240 m to 60 km, 480 m beyond), with the curve of the earth and the usual bending of light: summits read lower than they are at that scale, so a peak only counts when it clears the ground before it, and one at the very edge of the skyline may be left out. It's what the bare ground allows on a perfectly clear day: haze, smoke, cloud, trees and buildings aren't counted. Peak names are BC Geographical Names'; peaks outside BC aren't named.

City lights in direct line are our reading: the satellite's lit cells (15 nW/cm²/sr and up, the brightness of a town centre or more) within 150 km, each named after the nearest town centre within 8 km, and a town counted when one of its brightest cells, taken 10 m above the ground, clears the bare ground before it on the same elevation model as the long view. It says where lights are in a straight line, not how bright they look: the glow a town throws over a ridge isn't modelled, so a town behind the hills can still light the sky above them, and haze, trees and buildings aren't counted.

Sources (7)

Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Solar position: General Solar Position Calculations (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory; Spencer, 1971) (Public domain); Daily average solar irradiance on tilted surfaces for all of Canada (1998-2022), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Photovoltaic Potential and Solar Resource Maps of Canada (performance ratio), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas lakes and rivers, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BC Geographical Names (mountains, peaks and summits), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); VIIRS Nighttime Lights, 2024 annual composite, Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines (Elvidge et al. 2021, Remote Sensing 13(5):922), via Hengl, OpenGeoHub, Zenodo doi 10.5281/zenodo.7750174 (CC BY 4.0).

Winter sun: how the hills around a lot are read, and what the hours leave out →

Solar panels: what the yearly figure means, and what tilt and the hills change →

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§15Earthquake shaking For reference

The building code's design shaking here is 0.34 g peak ground acceleration on firm ground, about 70% of Vancouver's. The lot is on the ocean shore, on the coast the Province alerts as tsunami notification zone B (the central coast and northeast Vancouver Island, including Kitimat, Bella Coola and Port Hardy), with its middle about 4 m above sea level.

Ground	Peak acceleration	Sa(0.2), low buildings
Firm ground (C)	0.34 g	0.86 g
Stiff soil (D)	0.37 g	0.93 g
Soft soil (E)	0.38 g	0.95 g

The 2020 building code's design shaking at the lot's centre, 2% in 50 years, by site class. Which class the lot's ground is comes from the building official or a geotechnical engineer.

The record

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level): 0.34 g
Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years: 0.18 g
Short-period shaking Sa(0.2), the value the code uses for houses and other low buildings: 0.86 g
Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years, on softer ground: 0.37 g on stiff soil (site class D), 0.38 g on soft soil, about 10% more than on firm ground
The same value in city centres: Victoria 0.81 g, Vancouver 0.47 g, Kelowna 0.089 g, Prince George 0.064 g
Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more recorded since 1985: 0 within 50 km and 92 within 100 km
Largest within 100 km: M5.7 in January 1994, about 100 km away (NRCan: Near Nootka Island on the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC)
Nearest of magnitude 3 or more: M3.2 in November 1987, about 65 km away (NRCan: North of Kelsey Bay, BC, felt)
Distance to the ocean shore: The lot reaches the shore (Freshwater Atlas coastline)
Tsunami notification zone: Zone B: the central coast and northeast Vancouver Island, including Kitimat, Bella Coola and Port Hardy (the Province's zone for alerts on this coast)
Ground at the lot's middle: About 4 m above sea level (NRCan's 30 m elevation model; our reading, not a survey)

These are the 2020 National Building Code's reference values at the lot's centre, on firm ground (site class C), with the values the code gives stiff soil (D) and soft soil (E) beside them. Which class the lot's ground is isn't on any open map: the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer. Very soft ground, peat or fill that can liquefy (site class F) needs a site-specific assessment.

2% in 50 years means shaking at least this strong has about a 1-in-2,500 chance in any year; 10% in 50 years, about 1 in 475. g is the acceleration of gravity. The comparison with Vancouver and the other cities is ours.

Liquefaction and earthquake-triggered landslides aren't covered here; ask the local government whether it has mapped them.

Past earthquakes are those Natural Resources Canada's National Earthquake Database records within 100 km of the lot's middle since 1985, the start of its digital record, at magnitude 2.5 and up; blasts, mining events (tremors set off in a mine) and slides are left out. The seismograph network has grown much denser since then, so smaller quakes found today would have gone unrecorded in the 1980s, and positions are good to a few kilometres. A count of past quakes isn't a measure of the hazard: the building code's values above are.

The Province divides the coast into five tsunami notification zones so a warning, advisory or watch can name the coast it's for; they're drawn over the water and aren't a map of what a tsunami would flood. How high and how far inland water could reach here depends on the shore and the local government's own modelling: ask it whether it has a tsunami flood or evacuation map for the lot, and where its high ground is. The height is NRCan's 30 m model at the lot's middle, so a lower corner or a building's floor can sit lower.

The Province's advice near the coast: if you feel a strong earthquake, drop, cover and hold on, then as soon as the shaking stops go to high ground or as far inland as you can, by your community's evacuation route where it has one, and stay there until officials give the all clear. A tsunami from a nearby earthquake can arrive in minutes.

Sources (6)

2020 National Building Code of Canada seismic hazard values (CanadaSHM6), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); National Earthquake Database, Earthquakes Canada, Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Freshwater Atlas coastline, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Tsunami Notification Zones for BC, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Get prepared for a tsunami, PreparedBC, Province of BC (page updated April 2, 2025) (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-07).

What the building code's shaking values mean →

Tsunami notification zones, and what they don't tell you →

§16Landslide records For reference

1 landslide on record within 5 km; the nearest, a debris flow, is 3.6 km from the lot.

The record

On record on the lot or within 100 m: 0
On record within 1 km: 0
On record within 5 km: 1
Nearest: 3.6 km from the lot: a debris flow, date not recorded
Kinds within 5 km: debris flow 1
With a date: none of the 1

This is a list of landslides that are known to have happened, gathered from published inventories and from mapping on satellite images and lidar. It isn't a hazard map: it doesn't say how likely a slide is here, and no record nearby doesn't mean the ground is stable. Some parts of BC (the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, recent burn areas) are mapped in far more detail than others.

Each point mostly marks where a slide started. Debris can travel well past it, down a creek channel and onto the fan at the creek's mouth, so a lot on a fan or below a steep slope can be reached by a slide that began kilometres away. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary.

The kind of slide and its date are the database's own, mostly worked out from images, so treat them as a first look. Confirm with the local government, many of which have mapped steep-slope or debris-flow hazard areas, and with a geotechnical engineer.

Source: Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database, version 14.0 (May 2026), Brideau et al. (CC BY 4.0).

What a landslide record means, and what it doesn't →

§17Federal contaminated sites For reference

No federal contaminated sites listed within 2 km. This inventory covers federal land only; see below for what that leaves out.

The record

Federal sites within 2 km: 0

This inventory lists only contaminated sites on federal land or that the federal government is responsible for: military land, ports and harbours, airports, fisheries and research stations, reserve land, national parks and similar. Most contaminated sites in BC, such as old gas stations, dry cleaners and industrial land, are on the Province's Site Registry, which charges for searches and isn't shown here. Ask the seller what the land and its neighbours were used for; a Phase I environmental site assessment covers it properly.

Each site is one point given by its federal custodian, and a large site such as a base or an airport reaches well past it. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary to that point.

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

Source: Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (reported for 2025-2026) (Open Government Licence – Canada).

What a contaminated site record means, and what it leaves out →

Old heating oil tanks: finding one, removing it, and who pays for a leak →

§19Services nearby For reference

Port McNeill Hospital is the nearest hospital, 15 km away in a straight line; the nearest fire station is Hyde Creek Fire Department, 11 km; the nearest grocery store 17 km and public elementary school 16 km. The nearest transfer station or landfill on OpenStreetMap is 28 km away.

The record

Nearest hospital: Port McNeill Hospital: 15 km
Next nearest hospital: Cormorant Island Community Health Centre, Alert Bay: 7.5 km across the water on Cormorant Island
Drive to the nearest hospital: About 18 minutes (21 km by road) to Port McNeill Hospital
Nearest emergency department: Port McNeill Hospital: 15 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, Cormorant Island Community Health Centre, Alert Bay is 7.5 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Drive to the nearest 24-hour emergency department: About 18 minutes (21 km by road) to Port McNeill Hospital
Nearest walk-in clinic: None within 30 km on HealthLink BC's list, which leaves many clinics out: ask the health authority or a local pharmacy
Nearest pharmacy: Harbourside Pharmacy, Port McNeill: 17 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, Alert Bay Drugs is 7.6 km. Hours on HealthLink BC's list: Mon to Fri 09:00 to 17:30, Sat 09:00 to 17:00. Closed statutory holidays
School catchment: Not mapped for this lot: catchments are shown only where the school district's boundaries are open data, for Surrey Schools (Surrey and White Rock) and the North Vancouver School District (the City and District of North Vancouver). Ask the school district which schools serve it.
Nearest public elementary school: Sunset Elementary, Port Mcneill: 16 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, Alert Bay Elementary is 7 km
Drive to the nearest public elementary school: About 19 minutes (21 km by road) to Sunset Elementary, Port Mcneill
Nearest public secondary school: Port Hardy Secondary: 50 km
Drive to the nearest public secondary school: About 50 minutes (60 km by road) to Port Hardy Secondary
Nearest public school with early French immersion: Ecole Des Deux Mondes Elementary, Campbell River: 128 km
Nearest francophone school (Conseil scolaire francophone): Secondaire Carihi, Campbell River: 128 km
Independent schools within 10 km on Vancouver Island: 0
Nearest licensed group child care: None within 2 km on the Province's list; the nearest is 17 km away
Licensed family child care within about 2 km: None on the Province's list
Nearest grocery store: Marketplace IGA: 17 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, ShopRite is 7.7 km
Drive to the nearest grocery store: About 20 minutes (22 km by road) to Marketplace IGA
Grocery stores within 10 km on Vancouver Island: 0
Nearest fire station: Hyde Creek Fire Department: 11 km, on the Province's list
Nearest ambulance station: Ambulance station 129, Port McNeill: 16 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, Ambulance station 102, Alert Bay is 7 km
Nearest police detachment or station: Port McNeill RCMP: 16 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, Alert Bay RCMP is 7.6 km
Nearest transfer station or landfill: Seven Mile Landfill: 28 km
Nearest post office: Port McNeill: 17 km; across the water on Malcolm Island, Sointula is 15 km
Postal area: V0N: Canada Post marks it a rural postal area (a 0 as the second character): mail mostly goes to a post office box or a rural route box, not to the door, and couriers often add a charge for rural postal codes (our reading).
Nearest gas station: Petro-Canada: 11 km; across the water on Cormorant Island, West Coast Auto is 8.6 km
Nearest Service BC office: Service BC - Port Hardy: 49 km
Nearest ferry terminal: Cormorant Island (Alert Bay): 8.1 km. Crossings from it on OpenStreetMap: Sointula ↔ Alert Bay (British Columbia Ferry Services); Port McNeill ↔ Alert Bay (British Columbia Ferry Services)
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Alert Bay Airport (YAL): 6.9 km
Nearest airport with screened airline flights: Campbell River airport (YBL): 130 km
Vancouver International Airport (YVR), BC's main airport for flights abroad: 303 km
Nearest transit stop: None within 1 km; the nearest is Hyde Creek & Hwy 19: 11 km, route 12; 3 departures on a weekday, none on Saturday, none on Sunday (BC Transit's schedule, week of October 19, 2026)
Nearest park or protected area: Cormorant Channel Marine Park, a provincial park: 4.5 km from the lot line
Nearest recreation site or trail: Blinkhorn Peninsula, on Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list: 5.4 km from the lot line

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us, except where a fact says by road.

Drive times are our reading: the quickest way over OpenStreetMap's roads at a typical speed for each kind of road (from 100 km/h on a freeway down to 20 on a track or a lane, and at most 40 on gravel), from the mapped road nearest the lot's middle. They count no traffic, weather, winter conditions, road closures or ferries, and a road missing from the map, or a gate, changes them: drive it before you rely on it. Here that road is about 200 m from the lot's middle.

Hospitals are from the Province's list; emergency departments and walk-in clinics from HealthLink BC's lists, with the hours they give. Not every hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and a small town's emergency department can close for a shift when it's short of staff: the health authority posts these as service changes, so check before you rely on one. In an emergency, call 9-1-1.

Which school a child goes to depends on the school district's catchment, not on distance: ask the district.

French programs are from the Ministry's school list. French immersion usually takes students by application or lottery, often with its own boundary, and the Conseil scolaire francophone's schools are for children whose parents have the right to French-language education: ask the district which applies.

Child care is from the Province's Child Care Map Data, listed October 20, 2026: licensed facilities the Province funds, so a licensed one without that funding, or a licence-not-required carer, isn't on it. The ages served and any space are what each operator reports, and many list no ages. A space reported weeks ago may be gone: ask the facility about spaces and wait lists.

The fee reduction is the Province's Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative (CCFRI): a facility taking part charges lower monthly fees for children up to kindergarten age (our summary).

Licensed family child care is in the provider's own home, so we count it but don't name or place it. It's counted on a grid of about 1 km, so the count near 2 km is approximate (our reading).

A fire station nearby doesn't mean it covers this lot: confirm the fire protection area with the local government. Insurers price fire cover by the road distance to the hall that responds and whether the lot is inside a fire protection area.

Fire halls, ambulance stations and police are from the Province's First Responders list (updated 2026-09-11), with fire stations it lacks added from OpenStreetMap. A hall that has moved may still be listed at its old address.

An ambulance station is where crews are based. How soon one arrives depends on where the crew is when the call comes.

A detachment is where police are based; it isn't always the force that covers the lot, and a community policing office is often volunteer-run with no officers on hand. Ask the local government which police serve the lot. In an emergency, call 9-1-1.

Pharmacies are from HealthLink BC's list, with the hours it gives: a few pharmacies are in clinics or programs for their own patients, and hours change, so call ahead.

Transit stops and departures are counted by us from BC Transit's and TransLink's published schedules for one week, leaving out the stop where a trip ends. A stop's distance is a straight line from the middle of the lot; the walk is longer. Service changes with the seasons: check the timetable before you count on a route.

Parks and recreation sites are measured in a straight line from the lot line. Conservancies, regional and municipal parks aren't on these lists. Recreation Sites and Trails BC's list doesn't say whether a site is open, closed or reachable this season: check its page before you go.

Ferry schedules, fares and reservations aren't shown. Check the operator (BC Ferries, or for an inland crossing the Ministry of Transportation and Transit's inland ferries page) before you count on a sailing: many routes run fewer sailings in winter.

Many rural lots have no garbage pickup: households take it to the regional district's transfer station or landfill. Ask the regional district about pickup, the site's hours and fees, and whether it takes what you'd bring. Rural mail is often a box at the post office, not delivered to the door: ask Canada Post.

Grocery stores, transfer stations, landfills, recycling depots, post offices, gas stations, ferry terminals, ferry crossings are from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers: one may be missing, closed or mapped in the wrong place, and a landfill may be closed without the map saying so (our reading).

The lot is on Vancouver Island, by our reading of the Province's island outlines. Where the lot's own island has a service, its nearest one is named first; one marked "across the water" is a ferry or boat ride away, however short the straight line.

The postal area is Statistics Canada's outline of where a postal code's first three characters are used, drawn from postal code points, so near its edge the lot may fall in the next one. It doesn't say how this lot's mail is delivered: ask Canada Post, and give a courier or online store the full postal code to see what they charge.

Airports with screened airline flights are the ones the CATSA Aerodrome Designation Regulations list, where the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority screens passengers, kept where OurAirports also lists scheduled flights (Dawson Creek is designated but has none listed). Smaller airports and floatplane bases with scheduled flights aren't screened and aren't on this list, so a nearer one may have flights: check with the airlines. Distances are straight lines; the drive, or a ferry, is longer.

Other airports and floatplane bases with scheduled flights are the ones OurAirports, a list its volunteers keep, marks with scheduled service; flights can be seasonal or few, so check with the airlines.

Confirm services with the local government.

Sources (17)

Hospitals in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Emergency Rooms in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Walk-in Clinics in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BC Schools K-12, Ministry of Education and Child Care (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Child Care Map Data, Child Care Programs and Services (listed 2026-10-20) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); First Responders (fire halls, ambulance stations and police), GeoBC (updated 2026-09-11) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Pharmacies in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Service BC Office Locations, Service BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Grocery stores, transfer stations, landfills, recycling depots, post offices, gas stations, ferry terminals, ferry crossings and fire stations not on the Province's list: OpenStreetMap as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence (ODbL)); Drive times: our reading of OpenStreetMap's roads as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence (ODbL)); BC Transit schedules (GTFS), read 2026-10-12 (BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use); BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas, BC Parks and GeoBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Recreation Sites (Subset), Recreation Sites and Trails BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Forward sortation area boundary file, 2021 Census, Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence); CATSA Aerodrome Designation Regulations (SOR/2002-180), Schedule, as modified 2026-09-28 (Reproduced under the Reproduction of Federal Law Order); OurAirports (airport points and scheduled service), as of 2026-10-15 (Public domain); Freshwater Atlas Islands, GeoBC (sea islands, as of 2026-10-13) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

How school catchments work in BC →

Home insurance: what an insurer asks about the hall, the hydrant, the stove and the wiring →

Transit: what the schedules count, and what they leave out →

Child care: what the Province's list counts, and the fee programs →

Parks next door: what a park beside a lot means →

§20Internet For reference

Within about 1 km of the lot, ISED's broadband data records 50/10 Mbps or faster over a wired line, and 25/5 Mbps over fixed wireless. LTE mobile coverage is recorded there too.

<5/15/110/225/550/10+ WiredFixed wireless

Best band recorded within about 1 km, Mbps down/up. 50/10 is ISED's top band and the CRTC's target for every home. LTE mobile: recorded.

The record

Best speed recorded within about 1 km: 50/10 Mbps or faster
Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL): 50/10 Mbps or faster
Over fixed wireless: 25/5 Mbps
LTE mobile within about 1 km: recorded
Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster: within about 1 km (about 400 m)
Data: ISED National Broadband Data, May 2026
Mobile carriers listed in the area around the lot (about 25 km²): Bell and Telus (one shared network), Rogers (ISED, reported, not a guarantee at the lot)
Nearest FM radio transmitter: CBRY-FM, 105.1 MHz FM, 270 W, at Alert Bay, about 6.9 km to the north-west; hills about 2.1 km away rise to 2.1° in its direction, above the line to the antenna: likely blocked by the bare ground (our reading)
Nearest TV transmitter: None in operation within 50 km on ISED's list
Bell satellite TV dish sightline: 82° W sits 19° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 3°; 91.1° W sits 23° up to the south-east, clear of the hills by 7° (terrain only; our reading)
Shaw Direct satellite TV dish sightline: 107.3° W sits 29° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 16°; 111.1° W sits 30° up to the south-south-east, clear of the hills by 18° (terrain only; our reading)
Starlink: sky hidden by the hills: The hills stay under 20° all round, so terrain shouldn't block it (trees and buildings not counted; our reading)

This is the service providers report to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for homes and roads near the lot, not a quote: ask providers whether they serve this address, at what speed and at what cost to connect.

Speeds are download/upload bands. 50/10 Mbps is ISED's top band, so a place in it can get much faster service, and it is the CRTC's target for every Canadian home.

A line that reaches homes within 1 km may stop short of this lot; bringing it further can cost the buyer. Fixed wireless and LTE need a clear line to the tower, which hills and tall trees can block.

Satellite service doesn't need nearby lines, but it needs a clear view of the sky.

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us on a grid of about 250 m.

Mobile carriers are those Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) lists for mobile service in its hexagon of about 25 km² holding the lot's middle; ISED counts LTE and 5G together and doesn't say how much of the hexagon a carrier covers, so a listed carrier may not reach the lot, the house or the valley floor. Cell tower positions aren't open data. Ask the carriers, or try a phone on site.

Broadcast transmitters are from ISED's Spectrum Management System extract: the nearest FM and TV transmitters in operation within 50 km of the lot's middle, with their effective radiated power. Whether the bare ground blocks the line is our reading on the elevation model the Winter sun section reads (out to 16 km round the lot; hills beyond it aren't counted); trees, buildings and an antenna's height on the house aren't, and reception also depends on power, distance and the receiver.

Satellite sightlines are our reading: each geostationary satellite's place in the sky from the lot's middle (Telesat's orbital slots, read 2026-10-13) set against the skyline the Winter sun section reads on NRCan's elevation model, in 72 directions out to 16 km. Trees and buildings, which most often decide whether a dish sees its satellite, aren't counted, and a dish can sit higher or elsewhere on the lot. Starlink asks for a clear view of the sky from about 20° above the horizon and picks its own direction: its app's obstruction check on site is the real test.

Sources (6)

National Broadband Data (May 2026), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Pseudo-Household Demographic Distribution (2021), ISED (Open Government Licence – Canada); National Broadband Data, mobile providers by hexagon (2026-05-05), Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Spectrum Management System Authorization Data Extract: Broadcast Service (2026-10-05), ISED (Open Government Licence – Canada); Geostationary fleet and orbital slots, Telesat (facts from the page, read 2026-10-13); Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM-30), Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada).

What the internet figures mean, and what to ask a provider →

§24Radon For reference

Radon isn't mapped lot by lot. In the North Vancouver Island health region, 1 of the 106 homes tested (0.9%) in Health Canada's 2009–2011 survey was at or above the 200 Bq/m³ guideline; across BC, 143 of 1,817 (7.9%).

The record

Health region (regional figure, not this lot): North Vancouver Island
Homes tested here: 106
At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline): 1 (0.9%)
At or above 600 Bq/m³: None
Across BC: 143 of 1,817 homes (7.9%) at or above the guideline

Radon comes up from the ground and differs from one house to the next, even next door, so a regional figure says nothing certain about one home. The only way to know is a long-term test of at least 3 months. Health Canada's guideline is 200 Bq/m³ in the parts of a home where people spend more than 4 hours a day; above it, fix it within a year, and the higher the level, the sooner. For a home you buy, Health Canada suggests a long-term test once you've moved in.

The survey tested about a hundred volunteer homes per health region, with one long-term test each. That gives a rough regional picture: it isn't a map, and a region where few or none tested high can still have homes above the guideline. The survey grouped homes by the 2007 health regions; we place the lot by today's boundaries for the same areas.

Sources (5)

Cross-Canada Survey of Radon Concentrations in Homes (2009–2011), Health Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Health Service Delivery Area Boundaries, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Radon guideline, Health Canada (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-02); Testing your home for radon, Health Canada (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-02); Radon in real estate, Health Canada (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-02).

Radon and buying a home in BC →

§25Property tax For reference

This lot is in Mount Waddington, Electoral Area D, where the Province collects the property tax. Every home there pays at least $5.44 per $1,000 of assessed value at 2026 rates: about $5,444 a year on a $1,000,000 home, before the home owner grant. Local service areas such as fire protection add more where they cover the lot, so its full rate is unclear here; the tax notice lists them.

Regional district (the electoral area's share) $1.29
Regional hospital district $0.50
School (set by the Province) $3.10
Provincial rural tax $0.39
Police tax $0.13
Other $0.04

Where each $1,000 of assessed value goes, 2026, before local service areas.

Price or assessed value$

On $500,000: at least about $2,722 a year; on $1,000,000: at least about $5,444, at 2026 rates, before the home owner grant.

The record

Collected by: The Province (rural area), for Mount Waddington, Electoral Area D
Rate every home pays, 2026: 5.44404 per $1,000
Regional district (the electoral area's share): 1.29493 per $1,000
Regional hospital district: 0.49541 per $1,000
School (set by the Province): 3.1025 per $1,000
Provincial rural tax: 0.3861 per $1,000
Police tax: 0.1268 per $1,000
Other: 0.0383 per $1,000
Local service areas: Unclear for this lot: they cover parts of the area, up to 0.16573 per $1,000 each
Full rate for this lot: Unclear

The Province's rural rates don't say which local service areas (fire protection, recreation, street lighting, water, improvement districts, the Islands Trust) cover which lots, so they're left out of the rate above. Ask the Province's Surveyor of Taxes, or the seller for the latest tax notice.

Your bill uses BC Assessment's value for the property, which can differ from its price, and may also include parcel taxes and utility fees (water, sewer, garbage) that aren't rates on value.

The home owner grant takes up to $570 off the bill of a home its owner lives in ($770 in the Province's northern and rural area in 2026, and up to $845, or $1,045 there, for seniors, veterans and people with a disability), for homes assessed at $2,075,000 or less in 2026; above that it shrinks by $5 for each $1,000. From 2027 the northern and rural extra ends and the regular grant is $570 everywhere. The owner applies each year, and must pay at least $350 in tax ($100 for the higher grant) after it.

Sources: The Surveyor of Taxes' rural tax rates, 2026, Province of BC (the rates only: facts set in public bylaws, not open data); Home owner grant, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04).

How property tax works in BC, and what else goes on the bill →

The home owner grant: who gets it, how much, and applying each year →

Property transfer tax: what you pay when you buy, and the exemptions →

§27Crime For reference

Inferred, the nearest RCMP rural detachment Statistics Canada publishes (about 8 km away in a straight line; the one that polices this spot may be another): the Alert Bay RCMP detachment (rural) reported a crime severity index of 184 in 2025, above BC's 92; up 31% since 2015 (BC unchanged).

Alert Bay 184
BC 92

Crime severity index by year, 2011 to 2025, police-reported (Canada in 2006 = 100).

The record

Police service: The Alert Bay RCMP detachment (rural; inferred)
Crime severity index, 2025: 184 (BC 92)
Violent / non-violent index: 238 / 164 (BC 98 / 91)
Crime severity index, 2015: 141 (BC 93)
Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025: 835 (BC 281)
Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025: 167 (BC 138)
Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025: 418 (BC 441)
Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025: 7,519 (BC 1,531)
All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025: 20,551 (BC 6,943)

Inferred: the nearest RCMP rural detachment Statistics Canada publishes figures for, about 8 km away. BC's police boundaries aren't open data, so the detachment that actually polices this spot may be another.

The crime severity index weighs each offence by how serious it is (one assault counts for more than several thefts), with Canada in 2006 set at 100. Rates are per 100,000 people living in the police service's area, so places with many visitors, commuters or seasonal homes read high, and in small places a few incidents swing the figures a lot. These are crimes reported to police, not all crime.

In BC only Surrey, the Township of Langley, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam publish reported property crime block by block under an open licence; reports there count what was reported within 500 m of the lot. The police here don't, so the figures above are for the whole area they cover.

Police calls to a particular address aren't published in BC (privacy law keeps police records about identifiable people closed), and neither is whether a home was used as a grow-op or drug lab: where a council acted on one, its order or a note on the title can show it. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0063-01, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in British Columbia (Statistics Canada Open Licence); Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0184-01, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in British Columbia (Statistics Canada Open Licence).

What police-reported crime figures say about a place, and what isn't public →

Was this house a grow op? What the records show, and what the seller must say →

Nothing found8

Checked, and nothing on the record here.

§01Road access Nothing found

A mapped public road runs along or through the parcel: Telegraph Cove Road (main road, paved) and an unnamed lane or service road. The lot looks to be reached by a forest road permit road (our reading): Ministry of Forests file R06345, section RAILWAY runs along it. The permit holder, not the Province, maintains it while it holds the permit, and must deactivate it when the permit ends.

The recordroads on the plan

Roads along the parcel: Telegraph Cove Road (main road, paved); an unnamed lane or service road
Nearest public road: Along the parcel
Who maintains the road: No road within 100 m of the lot is on the Ministry of Transportation's road inventory, so the Province's contractor doesn't maintain the roads along it. Outside towns that means a private road, a strata road, a Forest Service Road or another resource road. Ask who maintains and clears it in winter, and whether that's written down (a road maintenance agreement on title, or a strata bylaw), before you buy.
Forest Service and permit roads (100 m): A road permit road (file R06345, section RAILWAY), on the lot, North Island - Central Coast Natural Resource District.

Worked out by us from OpenStreetMap road lines: a road whose centreline is within 25 m of the lot line is counted as running along it. The map isn't proof of legal access: a road can be private, unbuilt or not maintained in winter, and reaching a lot across someone else's land needs a registered easement. The title search and the local government (or the Ministry of Transportation outside towns) confirm both.

Forest Service Roads and permit roads are from the Ministry of Forests' road tenure map: active road sections only, measured by us from the lot line to the mapped line, which can sit some metres off the road on the ground. A section within 30 m is counted as running along the lot (our reading). Being on the map doesn't make a road a legal way onto the lot: the title search and the Ministry of Forests' district office say whether the lot has access from it.

A road permit road is built or kept by the permit holder (a timber licensee) to reach timber, and a special use permit road by its permit holder for its own use. The holder maintains it while it holds the permit and, as a rule, must deactivate it when the permit ends: that can mean a barricade across it and its culverts and bridges pulled out.

Neither kind is on the Ministry of Transportation's inventory, so the Province's highway maintenance contractor doesn't plough it; snow clearing, if any, is for the industrial users of the day (our reading). A road maintenance agreement, or who has cleared it in past winters, is worth asking about before you buy.

Sources (4)

OpenStreetMap road data as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Ministry of Transportation Road Features Inventory and District Boundaries, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Forest Tenure Road Segment Lines, Ministry of Forests (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Forest Act, RSBC 1996, c. 157, Part 8 (ss. 115, 118, 119.3, 119.5, 120.1, 121); Forest Planning and Practices Regulation, B.C. Reg. 14/2004, ss. 79, 81 and 82; Forest Service Road Use Regulation, B.C. Reg. 70/2004, ss. 6, 9 and 11 (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-12).

What a road on the map does and doesn't prove →

§05Wildfire history Nothing found

No recorded wildfire on or within 2 km of the parcel since 1919.

The record

Fires on the parcel: 0
Fires within 2 km: 0
Within 2 km in the last 30 years: 0
Natural fire regime (the Province's ecosystem map): NDT1, rare stand-initiating events: forest where fire, wind and landslides rarely replace the stand, on average every 250 years (coastal and interior cedar–hemlock forest) to 350 (subalpine fir and mountain hemlock), and then mostly in small patches
Biogeoclimatic unit: Coastal Western Hemlock zone, very wet maritime subzone, Submontane variant (CWHvm1)
Windthrow on the lot: 2021: severe over 1% of the lot
Within 1 km, not on the lot: Western blackheaded budworm in 2013 (nearest 690 m)
What the survey's classes mean: trees killed: very severe, 50% or more of the trees recently killed; severe, 30 to 49% of the trees recently killed; moderate, 11 to 29%; light, 1 to 10%; trace, under 1%
Surveys read: 1999 to 2025, the Province's own; on the lot or within 1 km of its line

Fire perimeters mapped by the BC Wildfire Service since 1919, each with its size and the cause the Service recorded (lightning or people, sometimes unknown); older and small fires are less complete. Past fire is history, not a forecast: for insurance, ask about the fire protection area and the distance to the nearest fire hall.

The natural disturbance type is how the forest here burned, blew down or otherwise renewed itself before logging and fire suppression, from the Province's biogeoclimatic map and its Biodiversity Guidebook (1995). It describes the land around the lot over centuries, not the lot's own fire risk or the odds of a fire in any year; the Province's fire threat rating and fuel maps aren't open data. Our summary, checked 2026-10-11.

The Province's Aerial Overview Survey is flown each summer from small planes 500 to 1,000 m up, sketching damaged stands on maps at 1:100,000 to 1:250,000: it gives the general location and rough extent of damage, not a ground count, and the Province says it isn't accurate enough to direct work on the ground. Most of the province is flown each year, but weather and smoke leave gaps, so a year with no record isn't a year with no damage. Each year's polygons record the trees recently killed (fading or red) or the foliage damaged that season, as the surveyors read it from the air; trees killed in earlier years aren't counted again, and dead trees may since have fallen, been logged or burned. Clumps of up to about 50 dead trees are mapped as spots, which aren't shown here. Our summary of the survey's standards and damage ratings, checked 2026-10-12.

Standing dead trees can be a cost to fell, add fuel for a fire, and change the view as they come down (our reading); a forester or certified arborist can say what stands on the lot now.

Sources (5)

Fire perimeters – historical, BC Wildfire Service (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); BEC Map (biogeoclimatic zones and natural disturbance types), Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Biodiversity Guidebook, Forest Practices Code of British Columbia (1995), natural disturbance types (Our summary, checked 2026-10-11); Pest Infestation Polygons (Aerial Overview Survey), Ministry of Forests (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Forest Health Aerial Overview Survey Standards for British Columbia (2019) and the survey's damage ratings, Province of BC (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-12).

How to read a fire history →

Burning brush or slash on your property: the rules →

§06Evacuation orders and alerts Nothing found

No evacuation order or alert has covered this lot since the Province's record began in April 2017.

The record

Events with an order over the lot since April 2017: 0
Events with only an alert: 0

The Province's record of lifted orders and alerts starts in April 2017: evacuations before then aren't in it, and no record doesn't mean nothing happened. Each area is drawn by the local government or First Nation that issued it; we check whether it covers any part of the lot. Where the record's own dates disagree (an order dated before the event began), only the month and year are given. Confirm with the local government.

Sources: Historical Orders and Alerts, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Evacuation Orders and Alerts, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

What an evacuation order or alert on the record means →

§10Farmland reserve (ALR) Nothing found

Not in the Agricultural Land Reserve, nor within 250 m of it.

The record

In the ALR: No
Nearest ALR land: None within 250 m

Source: Agricultural Land Reserve polygons, Agricultural Land Commission (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

What the ALR means for a buyer →

§11Mineral and placer titles Nothing found

No mineral or placer titles on or within 1 km of the parcel. A mineral reserve over all or part of the lot stops new mineral and placer titles being registered there (set for a mine site).

The record

Over the parcel: None
Within 1 km: None
Mineral reserve over the lot: A no registration reserve (for a mine site, since 2023): no new mineral and placer titles can be registered

Titles change often; this is the record when checked. Mineral Titles Online shows the current map.

A mineral reserve is set by regulation of the chief gold commissioner (Mineral Tenure Act s. 22). A no registration reserve stops new titles of the kinds it names being registered on that land; a conditional one allows them only on the terms the regulation sets, such as not interfering with a dam, line or pipeline. A reserve doesn't cancel titles registered before it, and it can be changed or cancelled by a later regulation. Our summary, checked 2026-10-12.

Sources (3)

Mineral, placer and coal tenures, Mineral Titles Branch (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Mineral Reserve Sites, Mineral Titles Branch, Province of BC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Mineral Tenure Act, s. 22 (mineral reserves), BC Laws (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-12).

What a claim over private land means →

§14Wildlife and habitat Nothing found

No species-at-risk records on or within 500 m of the parcel, and no designated wildlife areas over it.

The record

At-risk species or ecosystems on the parcel: None recorded
Within 500 m: None recorded
Wide-ranging species mapped over it: None
Secured records in the wider area: No
Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel: No
Ungulate winter range over the parcel: No
Proposed Wildlife Habitat Area over the parcel: No
Proposed ungulate winter range over the parcel: No
Federal critical habitat over the lot: None on the federal map
Sensitive ecosystems mapped on the lot: Not mapped here: the lot isn't covered by any of the Province's sensitive ecosystem inventories (checked 2026-10-11)
Invasive plants recorded on the lot: None on the Province's list
Invasive plants recorded within 100 m: None on the Province's list
Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 78% of the lot: A log landing; air photos of 2017
Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), 21% of the lot: Ocean; air photos of 1997; mapped as one wide area of 6,161 ha, so the lot itself can differ
Forest cover (the Province's forest inventory), the rest: 1% of the lot in one smaller stand on the inventory

Red-listed species are at risk of being lost from BC; Blue-listed are of special concern. A record shows where the species was found, sometimes decades ago; no record doesn't mean nothing lives here, since most land has never been surveyed.

Species at risk can still limit building through local environmental development permit areas: ask the local government before planning work.

Critical habitat for some sensitive species is kept off the public map; Environment and Climate Change Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry has each species' recovery strategy.

The Province's records come from invasive plant surveys, mostly since 2022, along roads, trails and shores and wherever crews were sent; no record doesn't mean no invasive plants. A record marks where a plant was found that day; it may since have been treated.

The Province's Vegetation Resources Inventory maps forest and other land cover from air photos, reading each stand as one: its trees by share of the stand, the leading species' age and height projected forward each year from the photo year, and crown closure (the share of the ground the tree crowns cover). It is built to plan forestry across the landscape, not to describe one lot: a mapped stand can hold clearings, a house site or other trees, the figures on private land can rest on old photos, and a stand logged or cleared since may still be drawn as forest. Before counting on timber, clearing costs or how much fuel stands near a house, have a forester or arborist walk the lot. Our summary, checked 2026-10-18.

Sources (8)

What a species-at-risk record means for a landowner →

Cutting trees on your property: whose rules apply →

§18Noise sources nearby Nothing found

No railway, no highway or major road and no airport or airstrip mapped within 2 km.

The record

Nearest railway (2 km): None mapped within 2 km
Nearest highway or major road (2 km): None mapped within 2 km
Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km): None mapped within 2 km
Light at night (within 1 km, 2024): 1 nW/cm²/sr, faint, as around Wells or Lytton (our reading); darker than about 90% of BC's homes.

Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.

Railways are OpenStreetMap's track in use: main, branch and industrial lines, sidings and yards, and rapid transit; lines mapped as disused or abandoned, and track in tunnels, are left out. "Main line" is how OpenStreetMap's mappers class the line. Highways and major roads are the roads OpenStreetMap classes as motorway (a freeway), trunk (a highway) or primary (a major road). Airports and airstrips are every aerodrome OpenStreetMap maps, public or private, with its type where mapped; heliports aren't included. Airport noise exposure maps (the NEF contours some airports draw) aren't open data, so they aren't used.

Visit at rush hour and at night, ask the seller how often trains pass, and confirm with the local government whether a noise bylaw, a development permit area or an airport zoning regulation covers the lot. For a railway, the railway company or Transport Canada can say how many trains use the line; for an airport, ask the airport about flight paths.

Light at night is what the VIIRS satellite records looking down at about 1:30 a.m., averaged over the cloud-free nights of 2024, with fires, the northern lights and other passing light left out (the Earth Observation Group's yearly composite); its cells are about 460 m by 300 m in BC. We give the median of the cells within 1 km of the lot's middle, in nanowatts per square centimetre per steradian (rounded to whole numbers), set against the same figure at BC's homes (Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points) and named after places that read alike (our reading). It is light going up, not how dark the sky looks from the ground: a nearby town's glow on the horizon (Winter sun lists any towns whose lights are in direct line), the moon, a neighbour's yard light and the trees aren't in it, and it says nothing of light at other hours. For stargazing, look at the sky from the lot on a clear, moonless night. This product was made utilizing VIIRS Nighttime Lights data produced by the Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines.

Sources (3)

OpenStreetMap road data as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); OpenStreetMap railways and aerodromes as of 2026-10-18, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); VIIRS Nighttime Lights, 2024 annual composite, Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines (Elvidge et al. 2021, Remote Sensing 13(5):922), via Hengl, OpenGeoHub, Zenodo doi 10.5281/zenodo.7750174 (CC BY 4.0).

Railways, highways and airports near a lot: what the distances mean →

Dark skies: what the light-at-night figure means, and what it leaves out →

§26Speculation and vacancy tax Nothing found

This lot is outside any municipality, in the Regional District of Mount Waddington's electoral areas, and no electoral area is in the Province's speculation and vacancy tax area outside Metro Vancouver, so the tax doesn't apply to a home here.

The record

Place: this rural area
In the taxable area: No

Sources: Taxable areas for the speculation and vacancy tax, Province of BC (page updated December 8, 2025) (summarised in our words); Speculation and vacancy tax rates and exemptions, Province of BC (summarised in our words, read 2026-10-04).

Where the speculation and vacancy tax applies, and who pays →

Not covered here2

What these public records can't answer for this lot.

§22Soil for farming Not covered here

The province's farm soil capability maps don't cover this lot; they cover the valleys and plateaus surveyed for farming, not most forest, mountain or northern land.

The record

Capability class: Not mapped here

If farming matters to you here, a professional agrologist (P.Ag.) can assess the soil on site.

Source: Agriculture Capability mapping, Province of BC (1960s to 1990s maps, digitised 2015) (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

What the soil capability classes mean, and what they leave out →

§23Climate Not covered here

No climate station with published normals is within 30 km of this lot.

The record

By the 2050s, days a year over 30 °C (model projection, SSP2-4.5): About as many days over 30 °C a year as in the same models' 1971-2000
By the 2050s, longest frost-free run (model projection, SSP2-4.5): A longest frost-free run about 55 days longer than in the same models' 1971-2000
By the 2050s, winter precipitation falling as snow (model projection, SSP2-4.5): About 12 percentage points less of winter's precipitation falling as snow than in the same models' 1971-2000
Air monitoring station measuring fine particles: None within 30 km with 5 or more full years of readings
Lightning near the lot (1998-2025 average): A cloud-to-ground flash within 10 km on about 1 day a year; 0.01 flashes per km² a year, less than at 3 in 4 BC homes

The nearest is Port Hardy Airport, 39 km away; across that distance BC's mountains and coast make the weather too different to stand in for the lot. Ask neighbours or the local government about winters, snow and road clearing.

Model projections, not predictions of the weather: the median of 26 climate models downscaled by Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (CanDCS-M6), for 2041-2070 under SSP2-4.5, a middle path for emissions. Each is given as the change from the same models' 1971-2000, not against a station's normals: in the mountains the models' figures can sit well off a valley station's, and the change between the two periods says more than either number. The frost-free run is the longest stretch of days with the low at or above 0 °C. The share of winter's precipitation falling as snow is our reading: each model's December to February snowfall over its precipitation, then the median across the models.

The models work on a grid of about 9 by 6 km, which averages valley floors with the slopes around them, so their own figures can sit well off a station's normals and aren't comparable with them. The models' own figures here, for setting against each other only: about under 1 days over 30 °C a year in 2041-2070 (range under 1 to 1 across the models), against about under 1 in 1971-2000; a longest frost-free run of about 255 days (range 230 to 315), against about 200; and about 6% of winter's precipitation falling as snow (range 4% to 8%), against about 18%. The range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the models' 2041-2070 figure; it isn't a range of the change.

Lightning is the Canadian Lightning Detection Network's cloud-to-ground flashes, averaged over 1998-2025, on Environment and Climate Change Canada's grid of 0.1 degrees (about 11 km north to south and 7 km east to west in BC): it is the area's lightning, not the lot's. A day counts when a flash fell in a grid cell whose middle is within 10 km of the middle of the lot's cell, by the Pacific standard time day (our reading); flashes per km² are for the lot's own cell. Set among BC's homes by Statistics Canada's 2021 dwellings on ISED's points. Lightning starts fires and can damage a well pump, panels or wiring on high open ground; ask an electrician about surge protection.

Sources (4)

Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Statistically downscaled climate indices from CMIP6 global climate models (CanDCS-M6), Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, via the Canadian Centre for Climate Services (Open Government Licence – Canada); Canadian Lightning Detection Network cloud-to-ground flashes (CanCPLDv1), Environment and Climate Change Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada); Mount Waddington, Electoral Area D: climate, land and census facts (PlaceDossier area page).

What a plant hardiness zone means →

Climate projections for the 2050s: what the models say, and what they can't →

§28Questions to ask

Built from what these records found, plus the basics for any purchase. Tick them off as you go (this browser remembers them; nothing is sent to us), or print the page.

For what we found

For what this report flags under Look into: what it found, then the questions it raises and whom to ask. Start here.

The report The lot is low-lying, near sea level: its middle is about 4 m above sea level on NRCan's 30 m elevation model (our reading), yet it isn't on one of the province's designated floodplain maps. Floodplain

Has the property or any building on it ever flooded or had water in the basement or crawlspace?Ask the seller or their agent
What are the flood construction level and the setback from the water for this lot, and is there newer flood mapping?Ask the local government
Can I get overland flood coverage here, and at what cost?Ask your insurer

The report Mapped water on or within 30 m of the parcel: 3 unnamed streams and the ocean shore. Water and streamside setbacks

Has any work been done in or near the stream, lake or wetland, and was it approved?Ask the seller or their agent
Does the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation or a local setback apply to this lot, and would building, clearing or a dock need an environmental professional's assessment?Ask the local government

The report Within 1 km: 2 applications for Crown land (waterpower and log handling or storage). What's planned nearby

What is planned nearby: rezonings, development applications, and the Crown land applications on the province's Applications, Comments and Reasons for Decision site?Ask the local government
How close does the major project nearby come to this lot (the Environmental Assessment Office's project page has its maps), and what will it bring in traffic, noise, dust or work camps, and when?Ask the local government

Worth confirming

The report has a lead on these, quoted above the questions it bears on: ask to confirm it holds for this lot.

The report Nearest fire station: Hyde Creek Fire Department, 11 km, on the Province's list (in a straight line). Services nearby

Is the property inside a fire protection area, which fire hall responds, and how far is it by road?Ask your insurer

The report Within about 1 km of the lot, ISED's broadband data records 50/10 Mbps or faster over a wired line, and 25/5 Mbps over fixed wireless. Internet

If there's a home, what internet service does it have now (provider, speed and monthly cost), and is it reliable enough for video calls?Ask the seller or their agent

No answer yet

The public records don't answer these: ask.

The seller or their agent

Were all buildings, suites and additions built with permits, and is any use on the property non-conforming?why
If there's a home, has it had a long-term radon test (3 months or more), what did it show, and is there a radon reduction system?why
Is the property on a well or community water, and on a septic system or sewer? For a well, can I see a recent flow test and water quality test; for septic, its permit and last pump-out?why

The local government

Which zone applies to this lot, and are there site-specific rules, development permit areas or official community plan policies that affect what I want to build?why

Your lawyer or notary

What does the title search show: easements, covenants, rights of way, liens and the surveyed area?

Your home inspector or a specialist

Can the well and septic system be inspected and tested before subjects are removed?why

The school district

Which schools is the lot in the catchment of, is there room in them for my children's grades, and is there school bus service on this road?why

Find the people

Official public registers: find someone near you, or check that the one you've found is licensed. No one pays to be listed.

Lawyer · title search, conveyancing, easements and covenants
Law Society of BC lawyer directory
Notary · conveyancing and title search
Society of Notaries Public of BC roll of notaries
Land surveyor · lot lines, building locations, a survey certificate
Association of BC Land Surveyors member directory
Well driller or pump installer · a new well, a flow test, pump work
BC register of well drillers and well pump installers
Septic practitioner · septic inspection, design and installation
ASTTBC registrant directory (pick ROWP under Sub Class)
Agrologist · soil, farm capability and ALR applications
BC Institute of Agrologists directory of registrants

Buying from outside Canada or through a company, or working out the property transfer tax: AcreScout sets out who can buy land in BC and what the transfer tax comes to. Confirm with your lawyer or notary.

§29The parcel record

Parcel type: Subdivision
Owner type: Private
Plan: –
Mapped area: 11.04 ha (27.27 acres)

Mapped area is from ParcelMap BC and can differ from the surveyed area on title. Owner names, assessed values and title charges aren't public data; a title search at the Land Title and Survey Authority shows easements, covenants and liens.

Source: ParcelMap BC parcel fabric (Open Government Licence – British Columbia), updated 2025-12-29.

§30Names on the map

12 official place names within 5 km of the lot; the nearest community is Kokish.

The names (12)

Zellerbach Creek, 350 m southwest · official since 1966
Kokish River, 600 m west · official since 1933
Kokish, locality, 1 km northeast · official since 1983
Tsulton River, 1.2 km west · official since 1933
Beaver Cove, bay, 1.4 km north · official since 1933
Lewis Point, 2.5 km north · official since 1933
Telegraph Cove, locality, 3.2 km northeast · official since 1982
Ella Point, 3.5 km northeast · official since 1933
McDonald Hill, mountain, 3.5 km northeast · official since 1970
Wastell Islets, island, 4 km northeast · official since 1970
Wastell Point, 4 km northeast · official since 1970
Bauza Cove, bay, 4 km northeast · official since 1933

Old newspapers mentioning Kokish: UBC's BC Historical Newspapers.

Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database, measured by us from each name's point to the lot's middle; a creek's or a range's point is one spot on it. Many BC names have origin notes (who or what a name recalls, when it was adopted) on BC Geographical Names: each linked name opens its page there. Old newspapers on UBC's BC Historical Newspapers can be searched for the nearest community; its terms allow research or private study.

Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database (Natural Resources Canada), via the GeoNames API (OGL-Canada).

Land for sale nearby

The 5 nearest listings on AcreScout within 25 km, nearest first.

Listing	Asking price	Size	Per acre	From the lot
580 Glover Rd Hyde CreekPort McNeill, listed 174 days ago	$495,000	5 acres	$99,000 an acre	10 km
1017 Oliview Dr Hyde CreekPort McNeill, listed 171 days ago	$420,000	1.95 acres	$215,385 an acre	12 km
25 1st StSointula, listed 101 days ago	$169,900	0.25 acres	–	15 km
648 Betts BlvdPort McNeill, listed 40 days ago	$200,000	0.21 acres	–	17 km
Dl1833 Cracroft Island West Cracroft IslandRegional District of Mount Waddington, listed 270 days ago	$1,250,000	180 acres	$6,944 an acre	23 km

Distances are straight lines from the lot's middle to the listing's pin. Where AcreScout places a listing only roughly, no distance is given, only the place it's near. Per acre is left out under about an acre. Asking prices are what sellers ask, not what land sells for.

Listings: AcreScout (our sister site), active listings as of 2026-10-20. Asking prices set by the sellers; not a valuation.

Checked 2026-10-20. General information from public records, not an inspection, survey, appraisal or legal advice. Confirm with the local government and a professional before you buy or build.