Professional Land Surveyors on the Sunshine Coast

WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF:
ROBERT ALLEN AND COMPANY
PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS.

Last update: 2010-01-03.

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 snail mail 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.

A FEW THINGS ABOUT US.

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 the past chairman (for two 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 chairman of the Association’s LTSA Liaison Committee, and a 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.

He is a 36 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) and is still involved in its Club affairs. As well, he is a five year member of the Property Assessment Review Panel and is now serving 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 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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SUNSHINE COAST SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY

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SECHELT AND DISTRICT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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Salmon fishing in the Queen Charlotte Islands

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