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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. farm sales hurt by Aboriginal title questions, MLA charges

Opinion: The growing uncertainty about the impact of Aboriginal rights and title on private property and tenures has hit ranching country

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VICTORIA — It was billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own prime ranch land” when 12 B.C. ranches totalling 182 square kilometres were put up for sale late last year.

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Yet when the deadline for initial offers to Monette Farms passed in January, there were no takers.

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The lack of sales was blamed on growing uncertainty about the impact of Aboriginal rights and title on private property and tenures in ranching country and elsewhere in B.C.

Details were reported in this month’s issue of Country Life in B.C., the longtime news source of the agriculture sector.

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“Title concerns add uncertainty to land deals,” was the headline on the story by Riley Donovan. But the sub-head noted “strong interest reported as auction deadline extends.”

The latter prospect was attributed to overseer Ritchie Bros., suggesting better prospects   in a second,........

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