WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF:
ROBERT
PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS.
Last
update: 2012-01-27.
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 Tetrahedron Peak (Elevation 1735 metres/5700 feet)
During
survey of part of Tetrahedron Provincial Park
Another view of Tetrahedron Peak from Mount Steele.
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 Sunshine Coast’s GPS
expert, specializing in GPS control and GPS mapping as well as small hydrographic surveys.
Mr. Allen was commissioned as a B.C.L.S. in 1972 after a four year
article period to Ken Longstaff, B.C.L.S., in Fort
St. John, B.C. and commissioned a C.L.S. in 1982.
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 British Columbia, Yukon, Nunavut, and the North
West Territories, as well as inside Indian Reserves and National Parks anywhere in Canada. He served a two year
term as a director on the Canadian Council of Land Surveyors, a one year term
as the member representative for British Columbia on the Canadian Council of
Land Surveyors and has been a member of the Canadian Institute of
Geomatics since 1978. He is a past chairman of the Professional Affairs
Committee of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors, a past
chairman of the Discipline Inquiry Committee of the Association, has served on
the Association's Board of Examiners, is a past chairman (in two three-year
terms) of the Complaint (formerly Discipline) Inquiry Committee, served on the
2005 Annual General Meeting Committee, and is also chairman of the
Association's Historical and Biographical Committee, the past chairman of the
Association’s LTSA Liaison Committee, and a past member of its External Relations
Committee. He also sits on the Discipline Committee of the Association of
Canada Lands Surveyors. In January 2000, at the Annual General Meeting of
the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors, Mr. Allen received a
Certificate of Recognition for his commitment and participation in Association
affairs. In December 2002, Mr. Allen was awarded the "Top Pick
Award" for his long time service with the Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue
and at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of British Columbia Land
Surveyors in February 2003, he was awarded the
Meritorious Service Award for his outstanding service to the profession.
In March 2011, at the Annual General Meeting of the
Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors, Mr. Allen received his second
Certificate of Recognition for his commitment and participation in Association
affairs.
He is a 38 year member and a past president of the
Sunshine Coast (Sechelt) Lions Club and he served as an Alderman (now
Councillor) and Acting Mayor in Sechelt for one term in the early 1980’s. 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 36 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 seven year member of the Property Assessment Review Panel and has
served his fifth term as chairman. He is
a keen outdoorsman; enjoying fishing, hunting, hiking, boating, 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, Haida Gwaii (formerly 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', in today’s dollars, come to well over
$200,000.00.
For anyone interested in obtaining a legal or
topographical survey on the Sunshine Coast, please contact John Theed at john AT skylark.ca and provide
him with the legal description of your property and the type of survey you
require. He can then review the files, perhaps visit the site, and then
advise you of the work involved and the approximate costs.
For anyone interested in any GPS surveys or GPS
mapping or small hydrographic surveys, please contact
Robert Allen at bcls AT skylark.ca
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Copyright: Robert Allen 2012.