Ardmore Beach Community Association
SAVE THE BEACHES INC. (www.savethebeaches.ca)
INVITES YOU TO JOIN US AT OUR GENERAL MEETING
SATURDAY JULY 4 TH - 10:00 A.M.
THE PLACE, ( Balm Beach Seniors Club), 300 BALM BEACH ROAD , PERKINSFIELD
Are you interested in the preservation of continued historic access and use of Tiny Beaches?
We are reorganizing and aim to strengthen and revitalize our organization and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are looking for representation from the various beach areas across Tiny Township.
Please join us – come out and find out what’s happening and what you can do.
For more information contact: Donald D’Aoust 705-549-8391 e-mail -
daoust@simcoe.net
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The call is out to join hands across the waterfront in Tiny Township – to STOP “STEP BY STEP” PRIVATIZING of OUR Beaches!
The time to act is now – our continued silence on this issue means consent! As you are reading this, beachfront owners in Tiny Township – including our beloved ARDMORE BEACH – are busy extending the western boundaries of their properties by re-surveying them “to the water’s edge” (under Ontario’s Boundaries Act).
The re-surveying of individual beachfront properties is Step #1 of the “beach grab”! Its purpose is to strip the rest of us of our centuries’ old right to use and enjoy our community beaches!
The new survey does not yet give an owner the right to call the beach his own. At this point, the Title of the property still contains a clause called “with reservation” – which means it’s not completely private… yet! The rest of us still can claim we have use and enjoyment of the beach they’re trying to grab from us.
At Ardmore, the blocks of beach between the Finley Avenue access and the 11 th Concession carry both a “deeded” and “historical” reservation. Some of us have a deeded right, but for most of us our right to use and enjoy our beach is based on our historical right to do so. At Ardmore Beach, thousands of back lot cottagers have been using our beach since the first survey of 1821! In fact, the whole of Tiny Township can exercise this historical claim of “reservation” which entitles us to “use and enjoyment” of the beach.
Step #2 is an application by the owner for Absolute Title – submitted to the Province through the Land Titles Act.
Beachfront properties in Tiny Township that have the above-mentioned “reservation” on their property title must first successfully complete Step #1 and then make a separate application to the Province for Step #2. The beach property is not fully private until the both steps are successfully completed. If there is no objection to the application for “Absolute Title”and it is approved, the water facing beach property becomes fully private and we lose all our rights to use and enjoy our beach! (More details here.)
Beachfront owners are busy “grabbing” our beaches – right now … AND Tiny Township Council is helping them with it’s new “STRATEGIC PLAN”!
Here’s what we can do to “ TAKE BACK TINY’S BEACHES”
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