Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec

What Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec does

The Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec (OAGQ) is a professional regulatory body established in 1882 and operating under Quebec's Office des professions du Québec as a non-profit ordre professionnel. The OAGQ regulates the practice of approximately 1,100 licensed land surveyors (arpenteurs-géomètres) in Quebec, ensuring that only qualified members may legally perform binding surveying operations including localization certificates (certificat de localisation), boundary demarcation (bornage), property line marking (piquetage), and technical descriptions (description technique). The Order is administered by a lean staff of approximately 15 employees at its Quebec City headquarters and governed by a board composed of elected surveyor members and public representatives appointed by the Office des professions du Québec.

The OAGQ's core operational infrastructure comprises digital member-facing services: a public member directory (Trouver un arpenteur-géomètre), a member portal (Espace membres) hosted on the Eudonet platform, a digital toolbox (Coffre à outils), greffe-search tools, and a suggested fee guide. Its professional publication, the Revue Géomatique, is distributed semi-annually with 1,450 printed copies and an estimated 6,000 readers across Quebec's real estate, construction, municipal, and legal professional ecosystems.

Revenue is generated through two streams: recurring annual membership dues from approximately 1,100 land surveyors (the primary stream) and structured advertising sales in the Géomatique magazine (back cover through quarter-page placements, with published rate cards). The OAGQ does not sell technology products and does not directly serve end consumers of surveying services; rather, it certifies and disciplines the professionals who do.

Name

Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec

Legal name

Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec

Website

https://oagq.qc.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1882

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec (OAGQ) is a Quebec professional regulatory body founded in 1882 that certifies and disciplines approximately 1,100 licensed land surveyors, funded primarily by membership dues and magazine advertising.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Licensing and Regulation

NAICS

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (926150), Public Administration (92)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDADAAAK

Education Ombudsman, Appeals & Complaints Offices

Education/Education Administration, Accreditation & Policy/Education Ministries, Departments & Regulatory Agencies

Keywords

• Land surveyor licensing
• Professional regulatory services
• Cadastral surveying services
• Property boundary certification
• Professional membership services

Headquarters

HQ city

Quebec

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues and Fees: Professional membership fees from approximately 1,100 land surveyor members. The Order is a non-profit organization governed by the Office des professions du Québec.
2. Magazine Advertising: Revenue from advertising in the Géomatique magazine, distributed to members and affiliated professionals. Rates vary by format and placement (back cover, inside cover, full page, half page, etc.).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The OAGQ is a professional regulatory body that protects the public by regulating the land surveyor profession in Quebec. It certifies and licenses approximately 1,100 arpenteurs-géomètres, oversees professional inspection, mandates continuing education, handles discipline and complaints, and provides a public directory (Trouver un arpenteur-géomètre) enabling citizens to locate licensed surveyors. It also publishes the Revue Géomatique magazine semi-annually and operates member-facing digital services including the Espace membres portal and Coffre à outils.

Product overview

Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres du Québec (OAGQ) is a professional regulatory body, not a technology product company. It operates a suite of member-facing digital services including a member directory search tool (Recherche d'un arpenteur-géomètre), a member portal (Espace membres), and a digital toolbox. The core professional services offered by its members include Certificat de localisation (location certificates), Piquetage (staking), Bornage (boundary marking), and Description technique (technical descriptions). The OAGQ also publishes the semi-annual Revue Géomatique journal and maintains resource tools including a greffe search directory and suggested fee guide. These services are primarily for professional regulation, member support, and public protection rather than commercial technology products.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recherche d'un arpenteur-géomètre (Member Directory) Public-facing online directory tool allowing citizens to search for and locate OAGQ member surveyors by name, location, services offered, and client types. Used by individuals, businesses, and municipalities needing licensed land surveyors in Quebec.
• Espace membres (Member Portal) Online portal for OAGQ members to access their member file, registration records, training history, and professional resources. Targeted at licensed land surveyor members of the Order.
• Coffre à outils (Digital Toolbox) Online digital resource hub for OAGQ members providing access to tools, agreements, professional insurance information, and continuing education materials. Available to licensed member surveyors.
• Revue Géomatique Semi-annual professional journal of the OAGQ covering surveying and geomatics topics including scientific, informative, and management-related content. Distributed to members and subscribed affiliated professionals such as real estate agents, municipal officials, notaries, engineers, architects, and urban planners.
• Certificat de localisation (Localization Certificate) Legal document prepared by a land surveyor that provides the 'health status' of a property regarding property titles, cadastral information, occupation, and applicable laws and regulations. Required during property purchase or sale transactions.
• Piquetage (Staking) Surveying operation where the land surveyor provides an opinion on property limits by placing markers and issuing a staking certificate, conducted solely for the client's benefit. Used by property owners needing property line marking.
• Bornage (Boundary Establishment) Land surveying operation that permanently and irrevocably establishes the boundary between two adjacent properties through a procès-verbal d'abornement and placement of boundary markers. Used to resolve neighbor disputes about property limits.
• Description technique (Technical Description) Technical document describing cadastral boundaries of a land parcel subject to particular rights such as delimitations, administrative boundaries, expropriations, or easements. Used for cadastral operations and land registration support.
• Recherche d'un greffe (Archive Search) Tool to locate which active member holds the archive (greffe) of an inactive land surveyor who has ceased practice. Used by the public to access historical surveyor records.
• Guide des tarifs suggérés (Suggested Fee Guide) Suggested fee guide for land surveyor professional services, helping clients understand and estimate the costs associated with various surveying services such as localization certificates, staking, and boundary establishment.

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Ordre des géomètres-experts de la FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMutual recognition arrangement for professional qualifications between the Quebec Order of Land Surveyors and the French Order of Expert Surveyors. This agreement facilitates the recognition of credentials for professionals trained in either jurisdiction, enabling cross-border practice under specified conditions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ordre des chimistes du Québec (OCQ): Quebec's professional order for chemists, another small Office des professions-regulated body. Useful structural peer for benchmarking operating model, dues-funded budget and member-service delivery at a comparable scale to OAGQ.
• Ordre des géomètres-experts de France: France's professional order for expert land surveyors, and the formal mutual-recognition partner of OAGQ. Operates the same surveyor-licensing and discipline mandate in France and is the international counterpart most directly comparable by profession, scope and regulatory function.
• Ordre des urbanistes du Québec (OUQ): Quebec's professional order for urban planners, regulated under the same Office des professions du Québec. Comparable in scale (~1,000+ members) and regulatory structure, with overlapping clientele in municipal land-use planning.
• Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ): Quebec's professional order for engineers, governed by the same Office des professions du Québec. Operates the same regulatory model (licensing, inspection, discipline, continuing education, public directory) and serves as the most directly comparable Quebec ordre professionnel in scale and structure.
• Ordre des notaires du Québec: Quebec's professional order for notaries, one of the largest Quebec ordres professionnels. Shares the same public-protection mandate, complaint/discipline mechanism and Office des professions oversight, and works closely with OAGQ members on property transactions.
• Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec (OTPQ): Quebec's professional order for technologists, governed by the same Office des professions framework. Comparable in regulatory model (licensure, inspection, discipline, continuing education) and member-services structure to OAGQ.
• Ordre des évaluateurs agréés du Québec (OPEAQ): Quebec's professional order for chartered appraisers, governed by the Office des professions du Québec. Highly comparable given shared real-estate and property valuation domain, identical governance model, and overlapping customer base with OAGQ members.
• Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ): Quebec's professional order for architects under the Office des professions du Québec. Closely mirrors OAGQ's governance, member services, discipline process and continuing-education mandate, making it a structurally identical peer within the same regulatory framework.

Regional players

• Association of Ontario Land Surveyors: Ontario's self-regulating association for cadastral and land surveying professionals. Closest Canadian provincial counterpart to OAGQ in scope, but operates under a different provincial regulatory framework (not an Office des professions model).
• Association of Canada Lands Surveyors: Federal professional association governing surveyors on Canada Lands (Indigenous reserves, national parks, offshore). Comparable mandate of credentialing and disciplining surveyors nationally, with partial jurisdictional overlap with OAGQ in Quebec.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

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