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The Mission of the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA) is to create confidence by delivering assured land title and land survey systems essential to the property market and economic foundation of British Columbia.

List of Surveyors General of BC

Before British Columbia became a Province of Canada on July 20, 1871:

1851 - 1858 -- Joseph Despard Pemberton: "Colonial Surveyor", Hudson's Bay Co.
1859 - 1864 -- Joseph Despard Pemberton: Surveyor General of Vancouver Island Colony
1859 - 1863 -- Col. Richard Clement Moody: Royal Engineer: "Acting" Surveyor General and Chief Commissioner, Lands and Works, British Columbia Mainland Colony
1864 - 1866 -- Benjamin William Pearse: Surveyor General of Vancouver Island Colony
1864 - 1866 -- Joseph William Trutch: Surveyor General of British Columbia Mainland Colony
1866 - 1871 -- Joseph William Trutch: Surveyor General of British Columbia (United) Colony

Surveyors General of the Province of British Columbia:

1871 - 1872 -- Benjamin William Pearse
1873 - 1878 -- Arthur Stanhope Farwell
1878 - 1891 -- William Sinclair Gore
1891 - 1898 -- Tom Kains
1898 - 1905 -- William Sinclair Gore
1905 - 1912 -- Eric Barclay McKay
1912 - 1917 -- George Herbert Dawson
1917 - 1930 -- Joshua Edler Umbach
1930 - 1946 -- Frank Compton Green
1946 - 1950 -- Norman Charles Stewart
1950 - 1951 -- Frank Ormond Morris
1951 - 1968 -- Gerald Smedley Andrews
1968 - 1975 -- Arthur Herbert Ralfs
1976 - 1978 -- William Alfred Taylor
1978 - 1981 -- Ronald William Thorpe
1981 - 1985 -- Gerald Tudor Mullin
1985 - 1995 -- Donald Armitage Duffy
1995 - 1996 -- Patrick Brian Ringwood
1996 - 2002 -- Charles Hugh Nowell Salmon
2002 - 2007 -- Richard Thomas Hargraves
Present -- Michael Gordon Thomson

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