Return private property taken from Vancouverites

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Norris Barens All Rights Reserved

The Invisible B.C. Government and Your Property Rights!

In May, 2005 I started my research on parking enforcement in the City of Vancouver and discovered an embezzlement scam that involved the Vancouver City Council, the Land Registrar, the Law Clerk in Victoria and a member of the Legislative Assembly.  This scam amounts to "billions" of dollars and involves the theft of private property rights that belong to those who built and dedicated highways.

Highways were originally built by land developers who then dedicated them to the public

for the purpose of passing and repassing.

Before 1953 all highways in the city were owned by the City of Vancouver except as described in the Vancouver Incorporation Act 1921 319 (1) as Every public street, road, square, lane, bridge, or other highway or public place, in the city shall become absolutely vested in fee simple in the city are (subject only to any right in the soil which the individuals who laid out such road square, lane, bridge, or highway may have expressly reserved).

What were those rights?  When developers dedicated highways, they dedicated the tar and cement or that part of the highway that is used by the public for passing and repassing.  It was never understood that the rights in the soil were to be transferred to the City and, that land owners still maintained full estate in the soil of the highways.

Research suggests on the Norfolk County Council web, that the English recognize the rights of the owners of the highways.  In the preamble of the British North America Act 1867 it states that the constitution of Canada shall be similar to the constitution of England.  The Norfolk County Councels web page is http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=NCC027433&ssSourceNodeId=&ssTargetNodeId=130

A particularly reveling explanation as to who owns the roads in England/Canada/America is this excerpt from the above link. 6 My deeds show that I own the land you say is highway. Does this mean it isn't a highway?

As the Highway Authority, we rarely own the land which the highway runs over. Most people own the land up to the middle of their road, but don't realize it is only the subsoil that they own and the control of the land and its surface lies with the Highways Authority.

The plan below helps to explain this

highway is shown hatched green on this plan. The dotted area is land shown in the householder's deeds as being in their ownership. As you will see, The adopted there is an overlap of the two. Not only is this possible, but is often the case. The highway rights exist over subsoil not owned by the Highway Authority.

How is it that the people of Vancouver once had rights to the soil and now these rights do not exist?

In 1953 when Vancouver first received its Charter, the rights in the rights in the soil went from those that built and dedicated the highways to the City of Vancouver.  Our concern is, how did they get the rights to property that existed in the soil?  Who is responsible for denying our rights to property?  Was it within the power of the legislature to give peoples rights of property to the City Of Vancouver? Please note that every other municipality in B.C. still retained these rights in the soil.

In 1973, the Vancouver Council was told by Legal Services in Victoria that if they could delete the sentence from section 289 of the Vancouver Charter "and to any right therein which the person who laid out or dedicated such street may have expressly reserved" they could then get title to stopped up highways: something they could not have otherwise done.

Did the Law Clerk in Victoria know that the City Council would all co-operate in the theft of our property?  If one person objected to that motion it could have been struck down as being unconstitutional.  I submit to you no one objected or if someone did they did not voice their objection or if someone did object, this objection was simply ignored.

How did they steal our property?  Don't miss this very important information on your rights to property and join the B.C. Property Rights Initiative Society. Discover the workings, treachery, and embezzlement by the invisible government of British Columbia.

Tell the invisible government of British Columbia that we, the people are the government and they as elected officials are here to serve and benefit our interests, not private corporate interests!

To get involved and participate in our seminar of evidence e-mail your contact information to: bcpi@shaw.ca and together we will regain our stolen rights to our property.

Freedom is not free.For evil to conquer, good men need to do nothing.

Norris Barens President B.C. Property Rights Initiative Society (B.C.P.R.I.S.)