Gus Kirsch, the owner of the Tradewinds Estates (Manufactured Homes Park) says tenants are infringing on provincial property and he has decided, again, to erect a large fence-screen obscuring the view to Tuclenuit Lake. So far only 5 large 6 by 6 inch poles have been inserted on the beach.

Kirsch’s previous attempt at such a project resulted in the removal of all posts when no was looking. He never uses concrete.

Map below shows, high water mark, where the shoreline is situated and how the various units are located on the lakefront. The last legal survey off the lake may have been was 1938. The ministry sees no problem as no access to the lake is prevented.

Only the homes built many years ago on the north of the property are affected. The landlord had told tenants the fence is to prevent snow blowing on to his property and to act as a demarcation line.

Members of the staff of the Ministry of Lands Forest and Resources visited recently and will address the issue in a letter to the tenants prior to their AGM in June.

Earlier on ODN – October 11, 2012
A resident of the Tradewinds Manufactured Home Park in Oliver called me over to take a look at something new and disturbing on the lake front.

Parts of the park is on Tuc-el-nuit Lake.

The owner has begun to erect a shoreline fence to demarcate the property line. The picture below shows a painted line on a concrete patio (circa 1979) indicating where the property line might be. It was reported to me that the sale of this particular home collapsed because of this dispute about where legal property lines might be.

The park is one lot and owners of the homes (single wides and larger) are assigned a pad and then pay a rental fee to the landlord. Tenants here have been in a dispute with the owner for a number of years.

The original park was set up in 1972 with 5 units: 11 other units allowed three years later.