About AcreScout

AcreScout gathers rural land for sale across Canada into one map, ranked by price per acre, water frontage and value against nearby land of about the same size. It's run by Buretto Technologies Inc., a small software company in British Columbia, Canada. Questions and corrections: support@acrescout.ca or 778-819-1350.

We aren't real estate agents and don't sell land. Every listing links to its original ad; confirm the details, the boundaries and the title with the listing agent, a surveyor and a lawyer before you buy.

Data sources and credits

Listings

Asking prices, acreage and locations come from public listings on Kijiji (including REALTOR® listings shared through CREA), Centris and Zillow. We link to each original ad and don't copy listing descriptions or photos.
How we check sizes, places and duplicates and work out prices per acre, with the figures by region to download: How we count.

Maps and imagery

Satellite imagery: Esri World Imagery (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics), through ArcGIS Location Platform.
Street map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); the main map's tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles.
Topo map: hill shading and contour lines drawn from the Canadian Digital Elevation Model (Natural Resources Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada), served as AWS Terrain Tiles.
Province boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain). Coastlines: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL).

Parcel outlines

British Columbia: ParcelMap BC, under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. District lots a listing names: TANTALIS Surveyed Parcels (BC Data Catalogue), under the same licence, shown as a possible parcel.
British Columbia, in due-diligence reports: parcel facts (buildable area, floodplain, road access, zoning maps, hazards) from PlaceDossier, a sister service run by the same company, which reads them from provincial and local open data; each line of a report names the government source.
New Brunswick: GeoNB property parcels, under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.
Prince Edward Island: Government of PEI property parcels, under the Open Government Licence – Prince Edward Island.
Manitoba: Manitoba Property Assessment roll parcels (ROLL ENTRY, Government of Manitoba), under the OpenMB Information Use Licence. Rural parcels are matched by the quarter section a listing names; Winnipeg isn't covered.
Yukon: surveyed land parcels (NRCan Canada Centre for Cadastral Management, distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon), under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Matched by the listing's map pin only, so every Yukon outline is a possible parcel.
Alberta: Alberta Township System quarter sections and legal subdivisions (Government of Alberta), under the Open Government Licence – Alberta. Drawn only for the units a listing names, dotted, as survey units rather than property lines.
Ontario: York Region parcels (contains public sector information made available under The Regional Municipality of York's Open Data Licence) and City of Toronto property boundaries (contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto). Matched by the listing's map pin only, so every Ontario outline is a possible parcel; the rest of Ontario's parcel map isn't open data.
Quebec: Ville de Rouyn-Noranda assessment units (unités d'évaluation), under CC BY 4.0. Matched by the listing's map pin only; the rest of Quebec's cadastre isn't open data.
Saskatchewan has no outlines: its survey grid and parcel map aren't open data.

Parcel maps are approximate. The deed and a survey govern.

Places, addresses and terrain

Place names and postal code centres: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Region boundaries: British Columbia regional districts (Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC, under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia) and Quebec administrative regions (Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, Découpages administratifs, under CC BY 4.0).
Street locations: Statistics Canada National Address Register, under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Elevation, relief and slope: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Digital Elevation Model, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

Land facts

Internet: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, National Broadband Data. Climate: Environment and Climate Change Canada, climate normals 1981–2010. Plant hardiness zones and burned areas since 1972: Natural Resources Canada. Soil capability: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada Land Inventory. Parks and reserves: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database. All under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Wildlife: occurrence records published through GBIF.org; we show only which species were recorded nearby.
British Columbia: Agricultural Land Reserve (Agricultural Land Commission), mineral titles, groundwater wells (GWELLS) and historical fire perimeters (BC Wildfire Service), from the BC Data Catalogue under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
Quebec: agricultural zone (Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec), active mining titles (Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, SIGÉOM) and well records (Système d'information hydrogéologique), under CC BY 4.0.
Ontario: Greenbelt designations (Land Information Ontario) and well records (Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks), under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia Well Logs Database, under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia.
Roads along a parcel: Statistics Canada, National Road Network, under the Open Government Licence – Canada. A map reading, not a statement of legal access.
Zoning maps, read at each listing's location for its zone: City of Barrie (Open Government Licence – Barrie); City of Calgary (Open Government Licence – City of Calgary); City of Fredericton (Open Government Licence – Fredericton); City of Greater Sudbury (Open Government Licence – Greater Sudbury); City of Moncton (Moncton Open Data Terms of Use); City of Saint John (Open Government Licence – Saint John); Columbia Shuswap Regional District (Open Government Licence – Columbia Shuswap Regional District); Halifax Regional Municipality (Open Government Licence – Halifax); Regional District of Central Okanagan (Open Government Licence – Regional District of Central Okanagan); Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (Open Government Licence – Regional District Okanagan Similkameen); Mossey River Municipality, Rural Municipality of Armstrong, Rural Municipality of Grahamdale, Rural Municipality of Lakeshore and Rural Municipality of Rockwood (OpenMB Information Use Licence); Thompson-Nicola Regional District (Open Government Licence – Thompson-Nicola Regional District); Township of Central Frontenac and Township of South Frontenac (Open Government Licence – County of Frontenac); Township of Rideau Lakes (Open Government Licence – Leeds and Grenville). Elsewhere a listing shows the zone its ad states.
Flood hazard maps: Mapped Floodplains in BC (BC Data Catalogue, Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Flood Hazard Identification Program mapping (Government of Alberta, Open Government Licence – Alberta); flood zones of the Base de données des zones à risque d'inondation (Ministère de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs, CC BY 4.0); New Brunswick flood hazard maps (GeoNB, Open Government Licence – New Brunswick).
The map's overlays (farmland zone, mineral titles, past fires, flood hazard, protected areas) are drawn live by the same sources' own map services, in their own colours (flood maps in one pair of blues, so every province reads the same), and credited on the map while shown.

Buyer rules and area guides

Non-resident and farmland ownership rules and transfer taxes are summarised from federal and provincial legislation and government guidance, with the date they were checked shown next to them. They're a starting point, not legal advice.
Area guides name their sources at the end of each guide.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada, and under the open government licences of British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Ontario and Nova Scotia. Statistics Canada, Natural Resources Canada and the provinces don't endorse AcreScout.

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