"Crown land is the term used to describe land owned by the federal or provincial governments. Authority for control of these public lands rests with the Crown, hence their name."(From: The Canadian Encyclopedia.)
The City of Kingston planned to build a housing complex on "surplus" federal land in Barriefield:
"We, the undersigned, who are not residents of Barriefield, wish to register our displeasure at the intent of Kingston City Council to build a housing project on "buffer land" attached to the Village.(From: Kingston City Council meeting, October 20, 2009.) The Village of Barriefield is a Heritage Conservation District of Ontario, to save the area from real estate development similar to what is now engulfing the Village of Portsmouth.
National Parks
Parks Canada is involved with the plan to monetize our National Historic Sites and parkland, which will leave little public land for future generations. One of the most traumatic events in my life happened in 1963, when a woman who bought my grandfather's mansion in Easton's Corners, Ontario told me, my grandmother and my mother to "Get off my property". Our grandchildren will hear that phrase many times, thanks to apathetic Canadians who let the global corporation General Electric buy CPR land; who let a global corporation buy our railway hotels. Foreign oil and gas companies operate on Crown land, for example the Suffield DND base in Alberta.
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