Ontario Crown Land: Ministry Unpatented Land Parcels

Ontario parcels of land and land under water retained by the Crown and managed by the Ministry of Natural Resources. The data includes forfeited properties, depatented parcels, and short-term dispositions. It was last updated on 2026-06-03 and is provided by the Government of Ontario under an open license.

Use Cases

• Mapping Crown land holdings based on parcel descriptions.
• Analyzing land tenure changes based on forfeiture and depatenting records.
• Assessing temporary land use based on short-term disposition data.
• Supporting land policy development based on government-managed property inventory.

Strengths

• Managed by a government ministry (Ministry of Natural Resources), suggesting official provenance.
• Includes multiple land status types (forfeited, depatented, temporary dispositions).
• Last updated on 2026-06-03, indicating a recent data snapshot.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 13:30:54.240342

Geography

Ontario, Canada