Farms and ranchers are having hard time selling in British Columbia because of the First Nations land claims the court rulings.
Now Indigenous groups are telling perspective buyers that they won't endorse transfer of crown licenses for grazing.
Despicable. pic.twitter.com/MoucgN1Ysk
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) March 30, 2026
VICTORIA — It was billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own prime ranch land” when 12 B.C. ranches totalling 182 square kilometres were put up for sale late last year.
Yet when the deadline for initial offers to Monette Farms passed in January, there were no takers.
The lack of sales was blamed on growing uncertainty about the impact of Aboriginal rights and title on private property and tenures in ranching country and elsewhere in B.C.
Details were reported in this month’s issue of Country Life in B.C., the longtime news source of the agriculture sector.