WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF:
ROBERT
PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS.
Last
update: 2010-07-07.
We
are located at 4077 Browning Road in Sechelt and can also be reached by
telephone at
(604) 885 9581, by e-mail at bcls
AT skylark.ca or
by Canada post at:
Box 607, Sechelt, B.C. V0N 3A0.
Robert
Allen, BCLS, CLS.
Robert
Allen on top of
During
survey of part of
Another
view of
Photo by Andrew Allen. Copyright 2002.
Robert Allen and Company, Professional Land Surveyors,
have been surveying the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, and the Yukon
Territory since 1972 providing legal surveys for: subdivisions, foreshore
leases, rights of way, forest tenure boundaries, mineral claims, condominium
surveys, Indian Reserve surveys, repostings, Crown Land applications and
surveys, Real Property Reports (building location certificates), as well as
engineering and construction layout surveys, topographical surveys, volume
calculations, accident site surveys, photo control surveys, and historical
research.
The day to day general legal surveying business has now
been turned over to John C. Theed, British Columbia Land Surveyor, and he can
be reached by e-mail at john AT skylark.ca or
through his website.
The owner of the firm is Robert Allen, British Columbia
Land Surveyor (B.C.L.S.), Canada Lands Surveyor (C.L.S.), and he will continue
to provide professional land surveying services only on Canada Lands. He is the
Mr. Allen was president of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors
in 1989 and was the president of the Association
of Canada Lands Surveyors in 1991/1992. He is commissioned to do
legal survey work anywhere in
He is a 37 year member and a past president of the
Sunshine Coast (Sechelt) Lions Club. He
was also involved in coaching minor soccer and minor softball for seven years
as well as starting up and running a senior men’s softball league; all in
Sechelt. He also served as chairman of
the Sechelt Public Library Association for his full eight year term on its
board and he is a 35 year member of Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue and has
been with the organization since its inception in 1975. He is a charter member of the Coasters Car
Club, started in 1996. As well, he is a
five year member of the Property Assessment Review Panel and has served his
third term as chairman. He is a keen
outdoorsman; enjoying fishing, hunting, hiking, camping, and birding.
Mr. Allen is a member of the Lower Mainland Group of Land Surveyors
and regularly attends the Group meetings. He has done survey work in Northern B.C., the Cariboo, the West
Kootenay, the Yukon, Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, Whistler, and
our own area of the Sunshine Coast from McNab Creek to Port Mellon to Gibsons,
Sechelt, Pender Harbour, Egmont, Jervis Inlet, and on up to Powell River.
Some of the major local projects he has been involved
in are: Regional Power's Sechelt Creek Hydro-Electric Project; Young Life's
Mailbu Camp Hydro-Electric Project; Renewable Power's McNair Creek
Hydro-Electric Project; Regional Power's Bear Creek Hydro-Electric Project,
Construction Aggregates gravel pit in Sechelt; 50 kilometres of Westcoast
Energy Inc.'s Vancouver Island Gas Pipeline right of way from Squamish to
Halfmoon Bay; Lafarge Construction Materials gravel pit layout and volumes at
their Egmont pit and Texada Island quarry; Crown land surveys, legal surveys,
and construction layout for Howe Sound Pulp and Paper at Port Mellon; resurveys
of timber properties for Canadian Forest Products at McNab Creek and Howe
Sound; resurveys of timber properties for TimberWest Forest Products at Egmont;
survey of parts of the boundaries of Tetrahedron Park for Interfor and also for
Canadian Forest Products; Port Stalashen and Ebbtide Condominium projects; pick
up and control for the Sunshine Coast Regional District water line expansion
programs; building and services layout for the Sechelt Public Library building;
Gibsons Seniors' Project; and the engineering layout and legal surveys for most
of the recent major subdivisions in Sechelt and Gibsons. He has also
worked on many repostings, topographical surveys, form surveys, and mortgage
surveys on residential properties.
He has a four wheel drive pick-up, a boat, a quad ATV,
single frequency Promark 3 GPS receivers, and up-to-date survey equipment and
computers with the best available survey software.
Some of the organizations and projects (in no
particular order) that Robert Allen and Company has donated its work to over
the years, include: Winegarden Park in Gibsons, Sechelt Library, Seaside Centre
in Sechelt, Rockwood Lodge, Chatelech High School, Sechelt Arena Dressing
Rooms, Catholic Church, Sechelt Justice Building, Keats Island Water District,
Pender Harbour Growth and Development Society, Pender Harbour Bargain Barn,
Kinnikinnick Park, Elphinstone High School, Sechelt Lions Club, Sechelt Rotary
Club, Sechelt Senior Citizens Association, Sechelt Indian Band, Kinnikinnick
School, Snickett Park, Hackett Park, Sechelt Marsh, Porpoise Bay Wharf and Boat
Launch Facilities, Sandy Hook Community Association, Ted Dixon Park,
Shorncliffe, Greene Court, West Sechelt School, Connor Park, Coopers Green,
Halfmoon Bay Trails, Sargeant Bay Provincial Park, Davis Bay Beach Parks,
Piccadilly Park, Mountainview Housing Project on Binnacle Avenue, Capilano
College, Sunshine Coast Community Services, Sechelt Pier, St. Mary Hospital,
Davis Bay School, Davis Bay/Wilson Creek Community Association, Brookman Park,
S.P.C.A., Sechelt Airport, Girl Guides (Camp Olave), Roberts Creek Pier,
Sunshine Coast Golf Course, Sechelt Golf Course, Cliff Gilker Park, Seaview
Cemetery, Roberts Creek Elementary School, Cedar Grove School, Gower
Point/Bonniebrook Waterfront Project, Gibsons Curling Club, Brothers Park,
Heritage Hills Subdivision, Holland Park, Dougal Park, Gibsons Wharf, Granthams
Landing Water Improvement District, Granthams Landing Wharf, Sechelt Chamber of
Commerce, Gibsons Chamber of Commerce, Hopkins Landing Wharf, Langdale Ferry,
Smith Road Park, Langdale School, Pender Harbour High School, Hillside
Industrial Park, Tetrahedron Provincial Park, Dakota Creek Fishery
Rehabilitation, South Pender Harbour Waterworks District, Madeira Park
Elementary School, Katherine Lake Park, Pender Harbour Land Fill, Sechelt Land
Fill, Mixal Lake Park, Sechelt Fire Department, Pender Harbour Fire Department,
Gibsons Fire Department, Daniel Point Park, Earls Cove Ferry Terminal, Egmont
Community Association, etc. The 'donations in kind' come to well over
$100,000.00.
For anyone interested in obtaining a legal or
topographical survey on the
For anyone interested in any GPS surveys or GPS
mapping or small hydrographic surveys, please contact Robert Allen at bcls AT skylark.ca
LINKS AND
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST:
SUNSHINE COAST SEARCH AND RESCUE
SOCIETY
JOHN C. THEED, BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND
SURVEYOR
SECHELT AND DISTRICT CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
GENERAL SUNSHINE COAST INFORMATION
TOURISM INFORMATION FROM BIG PACIFIC
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND THE GREAT
OUTDOORS:
Catch and release
rainbow trout fly fishing - click on the photo to enlarge it.
Salmon fishing in
the
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time adventure
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