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Saskatchewan ended adverse possession in 2001. Its trespass law now makes the person on the land prove they had permission, and a mistaken improver can sometimes keep the land outright.
Quebec's acquisitive prescription can transfer land after 10 years of possession, but never automatically. A judgment is always required, and Crown land is off limits with only a narrow exception.
PEI bars a landowner from suing to recover land after 20 years of possession, with no registration cutoff like NS or NB, but whether that period applies to Crown land is unresolved.
Ontario's Land Titles conversion freezes new adverse possession claims, but a claim that had already matured can still be perfected under LTA s.36, and Crown land has been fully barred since 2021.
Nova Scotia still allows adverse possession on unmigrated land, 20 years private and 40 Crown, but Land Registration Act migration closes new claims with two narrow exceptions.
Newfoundland and Labrador cut its Crown-land qualifying period from 20 years to 10 in December 2024 and started a 5-year filing deadline that is already running.
New Brunswick cut adverse possession from 20 to 15 years in 2011, and the Land Titles Act now closes new claims entirely on registered parcels, an outlier among Atlantic provinces.
Manitoba abolished adverse possession and states its Crown-land bar in plain language. Prescriptive easements are only partly abolished, and the current Trespass Act sets no penalty amount.
British Columbia abolished adverse possession decades ago under the Land Title Act and a July 1, 1975 cutoff in the Limitation Act, with only one narrow historical exception left.
Alberta was the last Torrens province with a live 10-year adverse possession route, until the Property Rights Statutes Amendment Act, 2022 abolished it effective December 15, 2022.
Comment le Yukon, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest et le Nunavut encadrent la conduite avec facultés affaiblies (DUI) : paliers de suspension routière, tolérance zéro, mise en fourrière du véhicule, et quel territoire n'a aucun programme d'antidémarreur éthylométrique.
La Saskatchewan applique trois filières de suspension immédiate, d'une suspension de 3 jours pour une alcoolémie dans la zone d'avertissement à une suspension de durée indéterminée au niveau criminel, avec un délai d'appel de 90 jours devant la Highway Traffic Board (Commission de la sécurité routière).