bluemike807
CGN Regular
- Location
- Eastern Ontario
What is the best way in Ontario to find information on who owns a particular property.
Normally this would be 'go up to the house on said property and knock' but the one I have in mind is an unusual exception.
One gentleman owned a large whack of land which, over the 90's, he sold off to developers to make a housing development. Behind said development is a series of fields which I know for a fact to have once been farmed but are now derelict and have been for at least a decade. (I found a tree with a love carving dated 1894. Pretty amazing)
Anyway - noone now lives in that area aside from the yuppies in the McMansions that have gone up, and the gentleman who owned the whole area has since passed on and his widow has moved away. I have no idea where his inheritors might be or even if they owned the fields Im interested in.
The yuppies sure don't know. How can I find out? I've only once ever encountered one other guy there - a hunter who I accidentally interrupted when I was walking my dog, I didn't even know it was private property as it adjoins a provincial skidoo trail - and didn't think to ask at the time (wasnt a hunter and I was scared of an angry man with a shotgun).
Advice would be appreciated; basically I want to ask if I can go there to hunt small game and/or plink.
Normally this would be 'go up to the house on said property and knock' but the one I have in mind is an unusual exception.
One gentleman owned a large whack of land which, over the 90's, he sold off to developers to make a housing development. Behind said development is a series of fields which I know for a fact to have once been farmed but are now derelict and have been for at least a decade. (I found a tree with a love carving dated 1894. Pretty amazing)
Anyway - noone now lives in that area aside from the yuppies in the McMansions that have gone up, and the gentleman who owned the whole area has since passed on and his widow has moved away. I have no idea where his inheritors might be or even if they owned the fields Im interested in.
The yuppies sure don't know. How can I find out? I've only once ever encountered one other guy there - a hunter who I accidentally interrupted when I was walking my dog, I didn't even know it was private property as it adjoins a provincial skidoo trail - and didn't think to ask at the time (wasnt a hunter and I was scared of an angry man with a shotgun).
Advice would be appreciated; basically I want to ask if I can go there to hunt small game and/or plink.
