Primarily a cadastral/legal (i.e. boundary surveys) firm that services the needs of private land owners, developers, all levels of government, government agencies, infrastructure (e.g. Bell Canada) and First Nations.  

Many of our private clients are cottage owners looking to confirm their property limits, purchase the Shore Road Allowance and/or Crown Reserve lying in front of their ownership, and obtain an up-to-date Topographic Survey.
We assist clients with a significant number of Planning Act Consent Applications each year for severances and Lot Additions. Many clients do not wish to navigate the ‘Consent’ process on their own and hire us to act as their agents for this purpose.

Our firm is a primary vendor for Infrastructure Ontario (IO) in Eastern Ontario completing legal work on Provincially owned land and unpatented Crown land. Our contracts through IO include such clients as the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (e.g. Ontario Parks) and the St. Lawrence Parks Commission.

We are also very busy supporting Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) in undertaking First Nation Land Surveys, additions to the National Park system and projects requiring surveyors to have dual cadastral survey licenses.

Our field crews primarily work in the Counties of Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox & Addington, Frontenac, Renfrew, southern Nipissing and eastern portions of Haliburton, Peterborough and Northumberland. However, our on-going work with Hydro One Networks and First Nations such as the Mississauga’s of Scugog Island and the Mohawks of Akwesasne has us travelling much further afield.

State of the art workstations employing software designed by Microsurvey along with various other software programs to provide high quality products.

Our firm has made a substantial investment in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) training and equipment since 1991.  All our survey crews are outfitted with Leica GNSS dual frequency receivers with both radio and cellular connections.  In addition, we host two permanent base stations (in Madoc and Campbellford) within the Leica “SmartNet GNSS” system which serves southern Ontario.  In 2015, we invested in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (drone) technology and photogrammetric software to produce various mapping and survey products such as construction progress reporting for engineering rehabilitation locations, mapping for Draft Plans of Subdivisions and volumetric surveys for municipal waste disposal sites.  In recent years — combined with Least Squares analysis software — we have invested heavily in high precision total stations and targeting systems to ensure precise layout of critical infrastructure.

In recent years we have started acquiring electric hybrid work vehicles to extend our fuel range and support the environment. We are currently exploring the use of Starlink to improve safety and communications for our field crews working in remote areas where cellular communications can often be non-existent.

Many of our projects are supported by the use and analysis of LiDAR datasets that are freely available to the public through Land Information Ontario. We have invested time and money training some of our staff in the use of Geographic Information Systems software that can handle these large datasets.