Learn the land, not just the listing.

The property marked on its lake, with the roads, the buildings around it and the named bays and points, then a page on how the report is arranged and how to read it.

The same 500 m of ground in up to three provincial air photo vintages, flown about five years apart, and what to look for between them.

How the ground rises and falls along four 100 m lines crossing at the property point, measured from provincial laser survey and charted beside a map of where they run.

Every working water supply on record near the property point, each drawn as a column to its depth: how far down the water is, how high it stands in the well and how much of the drilling is through rock.

The whole lake as the province maps and records it: surface, shoreline with its island share, thermal class, the fish on its record, the volunteer sampling sites, when the ice goes out and the zone’s fishing seasons.

Spring phosphorus and water clarity year by year, from the Lake Partner monitoring site on that lake, set against the bands the province grades lakes by.

The Water Survey of Canada gauge on the lake: its record high and low, the swing within a typical year, and the years of daily readings behind them.

Thirty winters at the nearest provincial snow course laid over one another, the depth a typical week carries, and the deepest reading of every winter on record there.

Snowfall, the frost-free season, nights below minus 20, days above 30, heating degree-days and thunderstorm days at the nearest station, with the shape of its year charted.

Natural Resources Canada’s model of what a kilowatt of solar panel would generate at the nearest named place, month by month, for six ways of mounting it.

One line per section with its colour and a dot for every finding under it, then the findings to act on, gathered from the seven sections that follow.

A legend of every record the maps can draw, whether or not this report found one, so the symbol beside each finding reads at a glance.

Crown land, patented land, original road allowances, and any Crown interest recorded along the frontage, named from the record’s own wording.

Waste sites, pits and quarries, petroleum wells, site condition records, compliance approvals and fire history, with the federal pollutant and assessment registers.

The mapped shoreline, depth soundings, well records and their depths, the level gauge, the volunteer water record, permits to take water, spawning areas and fishing access points.

How far the nearest mapped public road is, water crossings, fords, recorded road obstacles, and rail crossings on the way in.

What surrounds it: woods, mapped building footprints, rail lines, trails, utility corridors and airstrips, with the ground profile, the snow course and the climate station read as findings.

Wetlands, protected plans, source protection areas, parks and reserves, deer yards and other mapped wildlife habitat, flood mapping, and whether a conservation authority covers the area at all.

Which utilities are licensed to serve the area, what providers report for wired internet and mobile coverage, and how far the nearest grocery, fuel, pharmacy and hospital are.

Every dataset searched, with how many records each returned. A service that was unreachable on the day is listed as unavailable, never counted as nothing found. The limits and the warranty that apply to the whole report.

One business day for anywhere in Ontario, often sooner. The clock starts when you confirm the location on the map, not when you order, so we are never counting time spent waiting on a pin. If your deadline is tomorrow morning, say so in the order notes and we will move you up.

No. It is a summary of published government records. Ontario’s legal parcel boundaries are not open data, so the property is shown as a point rather than an outline. Your lawyer still confirms title, and a surveyor still draws the line. This tells you where to point them first.

That works too. Every report covers nearby well records, watercourses and water quality monitoring, whether or not there is a lake. Waterfront properties also get the lake’s own record: its size and shoreline, the fish on its record, when the ice goes out, the water quality and water level records, depth contours off the frontage and any dam.

Then you have seven green lights and a document with every source named on it. Most reports come back mostly green, which is exactly the point. Green means nothing turned up in the records searched, which is not the same as nothing existing, and the report says so on its own face.

Yes. Put their email in the order and we will send it to both of you. If you expect to order often, get in touch and we will sort something out.

Some rural addresses are hard to pin down. We will email you to confirm the location on a map, and if we still cannot match it, we refund your payment in full and no report is issued. You never end up paying for a report we cannot write.