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The actual law regarding land titles varies from state to state and province to province.The Canadian province I am in (Alberta) is on the Torrens system of land titles. See: Torrens title - Wikipedia . All the information about the titles for all the land in the province is stored on the computers at the Land Titles office, and you can find out everything relevant to it in a matter of seconds with an on-line search.The title information stored on the Land Titles computers is considered indefeasible, meaning that it is the official version and cannot be challenged in court. Everything relevant to the title is registered on the title, and anything not registered on the title is irrelevant because you can sell the land right from under those claims. Ownership of land is transferred by registration of a transfer of title, instead of by the use of deeds.You can get a duplicate certificate of title if you want a piece of paper, but there is no point because is only accurate for the exact moment in time it was printed.The government guarantees and ensures the titles stored on its computers are correct, and if there are frauds or errors the government will pay for correcting them. This makes fraud very difficult and easy to prove, and of course fraud involving titles usually involves jail time for the fraudsters.The Torrens title system was based on a central registry of all the land in the jurisdiction of South Australia, and was introduced in 1858 by Robert Torrens - Wikipedia, who was governor of South Australia at the time. It spread throughout the British Commonwealth, and in 1886, the Canadian federal government implemented the Torrens system in the Northwest Territories, which were opening up for settlement at that time. The NWT has since been subdivided into the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, but the Torrens system has been retained and since then everything has been put on the computers at land titles. If a piece of land is not registered, then it is the property of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which somewhat discourages people trying to claim land by squatting on it.This is a very clear and accurate system for registering and maintaining land titles, so title fraud is very unusual. Unfortunately most jurisdictions are not as well organized, and you can’t just do an on-line search to find out everything you need to know about a piece of land you want to buy.In addition, if you want to sell a piece of land in Alberta, you have to have what is called a Real Property Report prepared by a surveyor, which shows all the buildings, fences, decks, and other improvements in relation to the property lines. These things frequently cross or are on the wrong side of property lines, or violate setback bylaws, but the Real Property Report will show the buyer exactly where they stand.In Canada, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have Torrens systems, and British Columbia has a modified Torrens system (and people kind of ignore the property lines, which I know having owned land there). In the United States, Minnesota, Virginia, Massachusetts, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington have more limited versions of a Torrens system.I used to work in the land department of an oil company, and in Alberta we could have a field title map of an entire oil field prepared for about $400. Our computers would access the computers at land titles, pull up the data, and plot it on a giant piece of paper including owners names and addresses. In Ontario, which is on a modified English system, it cost closer to $25,000 to prepare a field title map because we had to get the lawyers involved to find all the documents.

They didn’t give them to Britain, they sold them to Britain and Canada. Yes, to circumvent the Neutrality Act after Britain and Canada declared war on Germany, Canada and the US set up airports on opposite sides of the border, and used horses, among other things, to transport them from a US airport to a Canadian airport just a few hundred yards away. Since civilians were used to move the planes between countries, and they did not fly across the border, the Neutrality Act did not apply.From the Royal Canadian Air Force files: Horses on the Payroll (Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 2016)Horses were used to help deliver airplanes from the United States (U.S.) to Canada. When war was declared on 10 September 1939, the RCAF was in the middle of deliveries of Harvard and Hudson aircraft, and was about to start receiving Douglas Digby Bombers. These deliveries were threatened to be terminated due to changes made to the U.S. Neutrality Law which forbade the shipment of arms to belligerent countries. Within a matter of days, RCAF personnel, in conjunction with sympathetic American authorities, took steps to circumvent these laws.The result was a variety of unique subterfuges which allowed this, the vital flow of aircraft, to continue to the RCAF. In certain cases the ex-American aircraft were arriving in Canada by means of “horse-power” that had nothing to do with their engines.The solution to the problem was to find a pair of landing fields, located a few feet apart on either side of the Canada/U.S. border, to circumvent the law as it stood.…the aircraft could not be turned over to a Canadian military person on the U.S. side of the border. That is, a civilian had to accept each aircraft, push, roll or tow it across the border, and then turn it over to whomever he pleased! A Canadian Customs Broker was used to accept, check and move the aircraft across the line. Then an RCAF pilot would fly it as soon as possible to Calgary.Two fields were created on opposite sides of the border, at Coutts, Alberta, and Sweetgrass, Montana. The Canadian field was 774 yards [708 m] North of the strip on the U.S. side, and it was necessary to cut down a Crown-owned border fence for access. The field conditions were described as “uneven, caused by old buffalo wallows, buffalo trails and badger and gopher holes,”Another pair of fields was set up at Pembina, North Dakota and Emerson, Manitoba. The fields consisting of two adjacent quarter sections—one on each side of the border—perfectly level and smooth, solid enough to operate aircraft with 2500 feet of runway. The fields were separated by a 50 foot border strip of level sod, and a farmer on the Canadian side supplied horses at a cost of $3 to $5 per takeoff to tow planes across.See: Emerson International AirportIt is unclear how many aircraft were transferred by this method, since it was a rather surreptitious effort to evade the Neutrality Act, but the number is well into the dozens, and possibly the hundreds.At least one aircraft brought in via Emerson still exists—a Boeing 247D, at the National Air Museum in Ottawa. It is also possible that an ex-RCAF Boeing 247D now restored and flying at the Museum of Flight in Seattle may have come across later at Emerson.

Basically all provinces are unique in Canada. Alberta, though, has unique advantages in Canada. For one thing, it has 95% of Canada’s enormous oil reserves. This gives it a huge advantage over other provinces. Oil is Canada’s biggest industry, and Alberta has most of it.For another thing, Alberta has 35% of Canada’s agricultural land, which is four times as much as Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, and about eight times as much as Quebec and British Columbia, which are Canada’s second and third most populous provinces. This puts a lie to their assumption that Canada doesn’t have much agricultural land. It is just that 75% of it is in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and not in the main population centres.Most countries put their populations in the same regions as their resources, not so much Canada. It has put its people thousands of kilometres from the resources which support them, which is somewhat unique in the world.For a third thing, Alberta has contributed over $600 billion to Canada’s federal equalization system, most of which went to Quebec. People in Quebec don’t believe that and refer to a mythical time in the past when Quebec subsidized Alberta. No, that time never happened. Quebec has never subsidized Alberta, not ever. Alberta owes Quebec nothing.This enormous transfer of wealth results in Albertans having a different perspective on the country than people in other provinces. It has huge natural resources, which makes it richer than other provinces, and is not sure it should contribute to federal programs since it never gets any money back.This makes Albertans much less fond of federal spending programs than other provinces since it is always on the losing end of them. Many Canadians consider this right wing, but Albertans think it is just looking after your own interests.The Canadian population is gradually moving west to where the resources are, but the Canadian government has devoted a lot of its political capital to stopping this by moving the money to the population centres instead. This is why the Liberal government can no longer elect members in Alberta.This should come as no surprise to Americans giving the movement of people from New York to Texas due to similar disparities between population and resources, and similar differences in tax systems (Alberta has lower taxes), but Canadians in the less advantaged provinces find it upsetting.However, Alberta is not nearly as right wing as Texas, despite what Canadian leftists thinks. Alberta Conservatives are politically more similar to moderate Democrats in the US than to the Republicans, it is just that the Canadian urban left wing is way to the left of most Democrats in the US.