I am writing this letter to point out an error with respect to the caption under the photograph on page 35 of the March, 1987, issue of your magazine (Engineers survey property lines). Contrary to much popular belief, engineers do not survey property lines; surveyors do. Each province in Canada has enacted legislation to govern surveys and surveyors. In Ontario, two of the many acts are the Surveys Act and the Surveyor’s Act.
Under the Surveys Act, Section 2 states that: “No survey of land for the purpose of defining, locating or describing any line, boundary or corner of a parcel of land is valid unless made by a surveyor or under the personal supervision of a surveyor.”
The same act defines surveyors as: “an Ontario Land Surveyor registered under the Surveyors Act.”
Similar sections can be found in the legislation for all provinces in the Dominion.
I trust that this will end, for your magazine at least, an error that has been perpetuated over the years by many publications. Lorraine Petzold, O.L.S. Executive Director Assoc. of Ontario Land Surveyors
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