ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the agricultural land, aggregates, forestry, provincial parks, water and, finally, Ontario’s attempts to devise “coordinated program strategies.” Agricultural land may be limited, but so are many other types of land and, in any case, to refer to land area without reference to productivity is highly misleading. Over a half of Canada’s class one agricultural land is in southern Ontario. The provinces of British Columbia, Newfoundland, Ontario and Quebec had below average conversion rates tied to population adjustment for 1966–76. There have been major developments connected with the Canada Land Inventory since it was started: the Biophysical Land Classification System, the Canada Geographic Information System, and the Land Use Monitoring Program. A major focus of research in the Lands Directorate has been the urbanization of rural land. The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing are to make arrangements for ensuring that flood plain policies are adequately reflected in municipal planning.
