Presenting organizations: Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) & Natural Resources Canada
Working together to make Canada a better place for Aboriginal and northern people and communities. www.aandc.gc.ca
Session length: 30 minutes
Description
Meet with your own personal trainer! Bring your questions and get hands-on experience using internet-based tools for reserve lands, such as: the Indian Lands Registry System (ILRS), the Electronic Registry Index Plan (eRIP), Natural Resources Canada’s Map Browser, Survey Plan Search and the Canada Lands Survey Plan Overlay for GoogleEarth. A laptop will be provided.
What Participants will learn by attending
Based on individual learning needs, participants may learn how to:
- Find maps and images of reserve lands using GoogleEarth, Map Browser, eRIP
- Look up survey plans with NRCan’s Plan Search
- Find copies of registered documents in the ILRS, such as Band Council Resolutions (BCRs), leases, transfers
- Create reports for individual lots and entire reserves with the ILRS
Trainers
Edit Benecs, Survey & Lands Records Officer, INAC
604-505-9023
Edit.Benecs@aandc.gc.ca
Colleen Walton, Individual Land Holdings Specialist, INAC
604-376-7190
Colleen.Walton@aandc.gc.ca
Ruby Langan, Land Management Assisstant, INAC
604-499-7071
Ruby.Langan@aandc.gc.ca
Peter Burns, Surveyor, NRCAN
604-666-0522
peter.burns@canada.ca
Presenter Biographies
Edit Benecs is a Survey and Lands Records Officer at Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada’s BC Region office. Edit has worked in the Lands directorate for almost 16 years; since 2004 as a Survey & Lands Records Officer. In addition to processing survey requests, Edit provides training to external and internal clients in the use of the Indian Lands Registry and in conducting land encumbrance checks. She also provides assistance to clients in land status verification (title searches) and in accessing survey plans and reference plans of Indian reserves.
Colleen Walton is an Individual Land Holdings Specialist with Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada’s BC Region. She has many years of experience working on reserve land holdings issues. She engages in investigations and analysis of land status and makes recommendations to resolve complex and historic lands issues. She provides support to more than 40 First Nations, and regularly provides training sessions.
Ruby Langan is an Acting Individual Land Holdings Specialist with Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada’s BC Region. She has nine years of experience working on reserve land holdings issues. She investigates individual land holding transactions and makes recommendations on the processing of the transactions. She provides support to 53 First Nations. Ruby presented on the Indian Land Registry System in Links to Learning 2014.