What are white triangular posts for? Do they mark my lot corners?
No. The survey posts that mark property boundaries are usually square galvanized iron posts at least 1.2 cm across any face, and at least 75 centimetres long, and protruding above ground level no more than 5 centimetres. Another type of survey post is a round bronze cap 7.5 cm in diameter set on a steel reinforcing bar, on top of a concrete post, or set in a hole drilled in rock. The white triangular wooden post is a reference post set near the survey post to make it easier to find, and to protect it. Since survey monuments are set to mark boundary positions, they must remain undisturbed to be useful. Survey monuments are protected under sections 442 and 443 of the Criminal Code of Canada. If they are damaged, moved or destroyed, restoration or replacement for the land owner can be expensive. A British Columbia Land Surveyor is the only person with the authority to set or replace a survey monument. Survey monuments are sometimes referenced by bearing trees, stone mounds, cairns, earth
