Can dedication and acceptance be applied to roads on private land in unorganized territories?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Blanchard v. Tripp, 2018 ONSC 3076 (CanLII):
In Sozansky v. Reed[2], the court appeared to accept that dedication and acceptance can be applied to roads on private lands in unorganized territories.
In Nelson v. Stelter[3], the court spoke of a road over private property becoming crown or municipal property once that road is dedicated to public use by a private land owner.
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