Baie-Comeau, Quebec

One aluminium smelter is worth 8% of Baie-Comeau and six times the city's hospital, the paper mill beside it was sold for scrap value to an Ontario family company in December 2024 — and the hydroelectric works the town was built for do not appear on the roll at all, because art. 68 of the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale keeps dams and generating stations off it.

9 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 16 sources · 2 tier B · 7 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03

Can you find out who owns it?

Ownership in Quebec is public but retail. Baie-Comeau runs the sanctioned free channel itself: the City's evaluation page hands the visitor to a PG Solutions roll lookup that returns a rôle d'évaluation for one address at a time, and a sale price costs 1,50 $ per document at the Registre foncier du Québec. The province separately publishes all 8,782 Baie-Comeau assessment units in bulk (MAMH's December 2025 quarterly update) with land value, building value, lot area, storeys, year built, dwellings, non-residential premises and the statutory paragraph behind any exemption — but with the owner's name and mailing address cut out and re-identification expressly forbidden, so there is no lawful bulk owner join. The roll in force is the 2025-2026-2027 triennial, with a market-conditions reference date of 1 July 2023. What the roll leaves out matters here: art. 68 states that "un barrage ou une centrale et les ouvrages qui en sont les accessoires ne sont pas portés au rôle", and art. 65(1°) excludes industrial machinery, so a hydro town's generating assets and a smelter's potlines are both invisible.

Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner

Cost of one title search1,50 $ per document (Registre foncier du Québec consultation tariff, in force 1 April 2026); the City's own roll lookup, which names the owner one address at a time, is free

Bulk ownership dataNone published

Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales

Sites that forbid taking their data

donneesquebec.ca (Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec) — “Les renseignements concernant les cadastres, noms des propriétaires et leurs adresses postales sont caviardés. Afin d'obtenir ces informations, vous pouvez consulter une unité d'évaluation particulière sur le site Web de la municipalité ou au bureau du greffier. Il est interdit de réidentifier les renseignements personnels caviardés (noms et adresses des propriétaires).”
centris.ca — ““Screen scraping,” “data mining” or any other activity, whether automated or not, intended, directly or indirectly, to collect, store, copy, reproduce, reorganize or manipulate the Content is also prohibited and constitutes a violation of copyright and these Terms.”

The marquee buildings

The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.

Building	Use	Owner	Owner type	Last price paid
Aluminerie de Baie-Comeau 100-130 route Maritime, Baie-Comeau 727.87 ha site (7,278,695.3 m² of land) · 6 floors	Industrial	Alcoa Corporation 324,000 metric tons per year of nameplate capacity, all of it consolidated to Alcoa The most valuable assessment unit in Baie-Comeau and 7.99% of the whole city: land $10,600,300 + buildings $202,000,000 = $212,600,300, up from $195,798,000, CUBF 3163 "industrie de la production d'aluminium de première fusion", 7,278,695.3 m² of land ($1.46/m²), fully taxable, title first registered 2016-07-14. Alcoa's 2025 Form 10-K lists Baie-Comeau at 324 thousand mtpy of nameplate capacity with the same figure as Alcoa consolidated capacity, and Alcoa's own Canadian page names the Baie-Comeau smelter as one of its three Quebec alumineries. Under art. 65(1°) the potlines are not on the roll. The roll's owner field is redacted.	Public company	—B U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Complexe Norderra — the former Baie-Comeau paper mill 20 avenue Marquette, Baie-Comeau 536.77 ha site (5,367,711.4 m² of land) · 6 floors	Industrial	Norderra — a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMI Group Baie-Comeau's fourth most valuable parcel and its second largest land holding: land $5,281,400 + buildings $25,021,300 = $30,302,700, previous roll $29,575,500, CUBF 2912 "industrie de pâte chimique", 5,367,711.4 m² of land, fully taxable, title first registered 2024-12-05. Le Manic, 7 December 2024: "La compagnie Norderra, nouvellement constituée depuis le 2 décembre, est maintenant propriétaire de l'usine de pâtes et papier de Baie-Comeau" — previously Domtar's, formerly Produits forestiers Résolu's, idle since 28 March 2020 — and the Registraire des entreprises shows the mill address as Norderra's principal establishment. BMI Group is relaunching the site as a multimodal industrial hub.	Family / private	—B Le Manic
Hospital, 635 boulevard Jolliet 635 boulevard Jolliet, Baie-Comeau 3.68 ha site (36,770 m² of land) · 7 floors	Institutional	Santé Québec or an establishment of the Quebec health and social services network The second most valuable parcel in the city: land $1,324,000 + buildings $47,463,900 = $48,787,900, up from $39,749,000, CUBF 6513 "service d'hôpital", 7 storeys, 36,770 m² of land, title first registered 2004-07-05. Exempt under art. 204(14°a) with an apportionment under art. 255(2°) — an immovable entered in the name of Santé Québec or of an establishment listed in Schedule II of the Loi sur la gouvernance du système de santé et de services sociaux. Health is the second largest exempt class in Baie-Comeau at $126,585,500 over nine units, 4.76% of the roll; MAMH's RFU puts the network's Baie-Comeau roll value at $130,233,200.	Government	—A MAMH
1401 boulevard Jolliet 1401 boulevard Jolliet, Baie-Comeau 6.13 ha site (61,303.8 m² of land) · 4 floors	Residential	Not established the licence forbids naming the owner The largest residential building in the city and its largest taxable holding outside heavy industry: land $1,146,900 + buildings $34,573,400 = $35,720,300, previous roll $35,425,300, CUBF 1543 "maison pour personnes retraitées autonomes", 4 storeys, 304 dwellings, 1 non-residential premises, 61,303.8 m² of land, built 2010, title first registered 2016-06-01. No art. 204 paragraph applies, so it is held commercially; the open roll redacts the owner and no filing or press release opened names it. It carries three times the dwellings of the next largest block in town.	Not established	—A MAMH
Gare maritime, 14-30 avenue Cartier 14-30 avenue Cartier, Baie-Comeau 20.98 ha site (209,757.2 m² of land) · 1 floors	Industrial	Not established the jurisdiction does not disclose owners The port's cargo terminal and the city's third most valuable parcel: land $1,311,100 + buildings $32,032,400 = $33,343,500, previous roll $34,824,500 — one of the few large units to fall — CUBF 4412 "gare maritime (marchandises)", 209,757.2 m² of land, title first registered 2022-01-01. It is marked imposable, but the roll cites a payment-in-lieu statute against it, coded PLIP-1, arts. 2(1), 3(1) and 3(2); three other Baie-Comeau units cite the federal Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act by its proper code, M-13 s. 3(1). Which statute PLIP-1 denotes could not be established, and the federal register lists no Transport Canada holding here. The ferry terminal next door is assessed at $5,565,500.	Not established	—A MAMH
Grain and bulk terminal, 30 route Maritime 30 route Maritime, Baie-Comeau 59.97 ha site (599,683.6 m² of land) · 6 floors	Industrial	Not established the licence forbids naming the owner Land $1,017,900 + buildings $23,838,000 = $24,855,900, up from $20,032,900, CUBF 6371 "entreposage de produits de la ferme (sauf l'entreposage en vrac à l'extérieur) et silos", 6 storeys, 599,683.6 m² of land, fully taxable, title first registered 1981-01-01 — the earliest date the roll carries, which for Baie-Comeau means only that title predates the current register. With 18 route Maritime ($8,078,000, rail-related) the 20 route Maritime units hold $252.4M of the city's $2.66 billion. The open roll redacts the owner.	Not established	—A MAMH
3860 boulevard Laflèche — utility network land 3860 boulevard Laflèche, Baie-Comeau 1,057.62 ha site (10,576,232.3 m² of land)	Land	Not established the licence forbids naming the owner The largest titled parcel in Baie-Comeau by area, assessed at $251,700 — 0.0095% of the roll over 11% of its titled land. CUBF 9100 "espace de terrain non aménagé et non exploité"; $188,800 of it is exempt under art. 204(7°) and $62,900 is taxable. Art. 204(7°) covers "un terrain compris dans une unité d'évaluation inscrite au nom d'une personne qui exploite un réseau visé à l'article 66, 67 ou 68 et qui constitue l'assiette d'une construction faisant partie de ce réseau". Art. 68 then keeps the construction itself off the roll. This is how a hydroelectric town's infrastructure appears in the public record: as a quarter of a million dollars of ground under works that are not assessed at all.	Not established	—A MAMH
Centre d'hébergement, 531 rue Jalbert 531 rue Jalbert, Baie-Comeau 5,472.5 m² of floor area; 1.10 ha site · 2 floors	Institutional	Santé Québec or an establishment of the Quebec health and social services network The newest significant building in the city: land $621,900 + buildings $30,668,300 = $31,290,200, up from $27,407,400, CUBF 6531 "centre d'accueil ou établissement curatif", 5,472.5 m² of floor area on 11,037.2 m² of land, built 2024, title first registered 2021-04-09. Exempt under art. 204(14°a) with an apportionment under art. 255(2°). Of the 21 assessment units the roll records as built in 2019-2025 anywhere in Baie-Comeau, this one carries more value than the other twenty together ($18,700,800).	Government	—A MAMH
Amphithéâtre, 1650-1706 rue de Bretagne 1650-1706 rue de Bretagne, Baie-Comeau 3.90 ha site (39,000 m² of land) · 1 floors	Civic	Ville de Baie-Comeau Land $2,242,500 + buildings $15,998,400 = $18,240,900, previous roll $17,429,200, CUBF 7211 "amphithéâtre et auditorium", built 1992, 39,000 m² of land, title first registered 2000-04-25. Exempt under art. 204(3°), which covers "un immeuble compris dans une unité d'évaluation inscrite au nom d'une municipalité locale qui est situé dans son territoire" — so Baie-Comeau's own roll states that Baie-Comeau owns it. The City's art. 204(3°) stock is $116,686,250 over 540 units (4.38% of the roll) and includes the 2018 water-treatment plant at 250 rue Clément-Lavoie ($20,249,800) and the recreation centre at 70 avenue Michel-Hémon ($10,594,000).	Government	—A MAMH

The core land

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

Summing RL0404A across all 8,782 units of RM96020.xml, MAMH's December 2025 quarterly update of the roll, gives $2,661,229,600; subtracting the $451,743,750 of RL0504 amounts marked non-imposable for the whole immovable leaves $2,209,485,850 of taxable value. The deposited roll that MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 summarises has 8,777 units, $2,657,691,600 in all and $2,200,660,050 taxable — and $2,200,660,050 × 1.09, the Sommaire's facteur de redressement (RFU CSALX02163), reproduces MAMH's published uniformised taxable value of $2,398,719,455 to fifty cents. The quarterly file is 0.13% above the Sommaire in total value; the two are not reconciled unit by unit. The roll's market-conditions reference date is 1 July 2023.

Total assessed value, Ville de Baie-Comeau$2,661,229,600 CAD

Taxable $2,209,485,850 + non-taxable $451,743,750, over 8,782 assessment units with 10,519 dwellings, 981 non-residential premises and 400 rented rooms, computed from MAMH's quarterly roll RM96020.xml (2025-2026-2027 triennial, reference date 2023-07-01). The deposited roll in MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 shows 8,777 units, 10,522 dwellings, 984 other premises and $2,657,691,600 (taxable $2,200,660,050), which reconciles to the RFU-2026 uniformised figure of $2,398,719,455 at the published factor of 1.09.

Highest assessed parcel$212,600,300 CAD

Aluminerie de Baie-Comeau, 100-130 route Maritime: land $10,600,300 ($1.46/m² over 727.87 ha) + buildings $202,000,000, previous roll $195,798,000. One unit is 7.99% of the city, and 4.4 times the next parcel, the hospital at $48,787,900.

Concentration of assessed valueTop 10 units 19.37%; top 100 units 35.01%

Top 10 = $515,517,000 of $2,661,229,600. Five of the ten are exempt hospital, care and school buildings; Alcoa, the 304-dwelling building at 1401 boulevard Jolliet and the paper-mill site are in private or corporate hands and together carry $278,623,300; the port's cargo terminal and the grain terminal at 30 route Maritime have no established owner.

The industrial share is the highest in this batch28.18% industrial and commercial

MAMH's Profil financier 2025 gives Baie-Comeau an industrial-and-commercial share of uniformised taxable assessment of 28.18% against 71.40% residential — the highest industrial weighting of the four places done here, and well above Trois-Rivières (15.50%) and Gaspé (16.44%).

Statutorily exempt value$451,743,750 CAD — 16.98% of the roll

By art. 204 paragraph in the quarterly roll: 13° schools/CEGEPs $150,754,900 over 15 units; 14°a the health network $126,585,500 over 9 units (plus $3,647,700 under 14°c); 3° the local municipality $116,686,250 over 540 units; 1° the State or SQI $21,471,600 over 92 units; 10° recognised non-profits $11,792,800 over 23 units; 8° places of worship $7,441,400 over 8 units; 5° a mandatary of a municipality $6,548,000 over 4 units; 1.1° the Crown in right of Canada just $931,800 over 3 units. The deposited Sommaire's art. 204 lines give $457,031,550 non-taxable, with 5° at $12,071,200 over 70 units and 1.1° at $1,160,600.

What is not on the roll at allDams, generating stations and industrial machinery

Art. 68 of the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale: "Ne sont pas portés au rôle les constructions qui font partie d'un réseau de production, de transmission ou de distribution d'énergie électrique... Un barrage ou une centrale et les ouvrages qui en sont les accessoires ne sont pas portés au rôle." Alcoa's 10-K states that Manicouagan Power Limited Partnership — a joint venture of Alcoa affiliates and Hydro-Québec, 40% Alcoa — "owns and operates the 335 megawatt McCormick hydroelectric project" on the Manicouagan River. There is a rue McCormick in Baie-Comeau; there is no generating station of material value on its roll. Art. 65(1°) does the same for the smelter's potlines.

Federal holding$1,083,400 on the roll; 11 properties, mostly post offices

MAMH's RFU puts the federal share of Baie-Comeau's roll at $1,180,906 uniformised, i.e. $1,083,400 — the smallest federal footprint of the four places done here. The Directory of Federal Real Property lists 11 parcels in the Baie-Comeau metro area: four Canada Post offices, five Fisheries and Oceans harbour and foreshore parcels (including "Baie Comeau Harbour", Crown Owned, 0.8171 ha), and two Public Services and Procurement Canada office leases on rue and boulevard Lasalle totalling 1,210 m².

Who owns the town

At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.

Baie-Comeau is a company town whose company is on a U.S. stock exchange, and the rest of the roll belongs to the state. Alcoa's smelter is 8% of the city on its own; the health network, the school network and the City account for another 15%; and the second largest private land holding, the paper-mill site, was bought by an Ontario family company in December 2024 for a use that no longer involves making paper.

Name	Type	Holdings
Alcoa Corporation One parcel, 7.99% of the city's assessed value, fully taxable. Alcoa's 2025 10-K lists Baie-Comeau at 324 thousand mtpy of nameplate capacity, all consolidated to Alcoa, and also discloses that Alcoa owns 40% of Manicouagan Power Limited Partnership, which owns and operates the 335 MW McCormick hydroelectric project on the Manicouagan River.	Public company	727.87 ha, $212,600,300 assessedB U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Quebec health and social services network (Santé Québec or a Schedule II establishment) Art. 204(14°a): the hospital at 635 boulevard Jolliet ($48,787,900), the 2024 centre d'hébergement at 531 rue Jalbert ($31,290,200), the convalescent home at 70 avenue Mance ($10,081,100), the CLSC at 340 rue Clément-Lavoie ($9,375,100) and the specialised-training building at 625 rue des Épilobes ($8,584,500).	Government	$126,585,500 over 9 unitsA MAMH
Ville de Baie-Comeau The largest holder by number of assessment units, all exempt under art. 204(3°). Largest: the 2018 water-treatment plant at 250 rue Clément-Lavoie ($20,249,800), the amphitheatre at 1650-1706 rue de Bretagne ($18,240,900) and the recreation centre at 70 avenue Michel-Hémon ($10,594,000).	Government	$116,686,250 over 540 unitsA MAMH
Quebec school network (a school service centre or CEGEP) The largest exempt class at 5.67% of the roll, under art. 204(13°): the polyvalente at 40-43A avenue Michel-Hémon ($34,359,800, 21,472.5 m²), the CEGEP at 537 boulevard Blanche ($32,885,400, 16.85 ha), the polyvalente at 640 boulevard Blanche ($31,371,000, 22,967.1 m²) and the trade school at 600-620 rue Jalbert ($8,784,100). The roll does not say which body holds which.	Institution	$150,754,900 over 15 unitsA MAMH
Norderra (BMI Group) The second largest private land holding in the city, acquired 4 December 2024 from Domtar; the roll's title first-registration date is 2024-12-05 and Norderra was constituted on 2 December 2024. No price was stated in any document opened.	Family / private	536.77 ha, $30,302,700 assessedB Le Manic

Who builds the houses

New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.

Baie-Comeau has essentially stopped adding housing. The roll records only 21 assessment units built anywhere in the city in 2019-2025, carrying 14 dwellings between them, and RL0307A is populated only where a unit has a single identified main building, so that is a floor rather than a total. There are no CUBF 1010 social-housing units on the roll. Quebec publishes no builder league table and no named Baie-Comeau developer could be established from a source that opened, so the entries below are what the roll establishes about the stock rather than who built it.

Name	Type	Dwellings
1401 boulevard Jolliet (owner not established) CUBF 1543, 4 storeys, built 2010, 6.13 ha, fully taxable, title first registered 2016-06-01. The largest residential holding in the city by dwellings and by value, and the only one above $10M.	Private company	304 dwellings, $35,720,300A MAMH
10-20 avenue Carleton (owner not established) CUBF 1000 "logement", 6 storeys, title first registered 1981-01-01. The largest conventional apartment block in Baie-Comeau; the next two are 76 dwellings at 1483-1539 boulevard Blanche ($4,615,300) and 69 dwellings at 870-918 rue Pouliot ($5,428,600), both with title dates of 2019-01-01.	Private company	100 dwellings, $5,300,000A MAMH
Quebec health and social services network The centre d'hébergement at 531 rue Jalbert, CUBF 6531, 5,472.5 m² of floor area, built 2024, exempt under art. 204(14°a). In a city building almost no private housing, the state built the one substantial new residential-care building; the convalescent home at 70 avenue Mance ($10,081,100, built 1968) and the specialised-training residence at 625 rue des Épilobes ($8,584,500) are held under the same paragraph.	Government	$31,290,200 — the city's only large new building since 2019A MAMH

Commercial landlords

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

Baie-Comeau's retail is three small centres strung along boulevard Laflèche and boulevard La Salle, none of them enclosed-regional in scale, and the whole of it is worth about an eighth of the smelter. The open roll names none of the owners and nothing here appears in a REIT's property schedule, so the figures are the roll's own.

Name	Type	Premises
600-630 boulevard Laflèche (owner not established) The largest retail unit in the city: CUBF 5004 "centre commercial de quartier", land $3,690,200 + buildings $8,809,800, previous roll $12,500,000 — flat, 25,755.0 m² of floor area on 99,130.9 m² of land, built 1974, title first registered 1981-01-01, fully taxable. The open roll redacts the owner.	Private company	41 premises, 25,755.0 m², $12,500,000 assessedA MAMH
625 boulevard Laflèche (owner not established) The highest premises count in Baie-Comeau: CUBF 5003 "centre commercial local", land $2,215,200 + buildings $5,240,600, previous roll $7,128,800, 56,377.2 m² of land, title first registered 2013-01-11, fully taxable.	Private company	52 premises, 5.64 ha, $7,455,800 assessedA MAMH
115-135 boulevard Comeau (owner not established) The city's most valuable office building and the only commercial unit that beats the malls: CUBF 6000 "immeuble à bureaux", land $815,500 + buildings $13,987,200, previous roll $10,764,900 — a 37.5% increase, 150,065.1 m² of land, built 1980, title first registered 1981-01-01. $20,800 of its land is exempt under art. 204(7°) as the site of a utility-network construction; the remaining $14,781,900 is taxable. The roll redacts the owner.	Private company	15.01 ha, $14,802,700 assessedA MAMH
300 boulevard La Salle (owner not established) CUBF 5004, land $2,836,500 + buildings $3,345,800, previous roll $6,182,300 — flat, 86,720.3 m² of land, built 1973, title first registered 2021-06-02, fully taxable.	Private company	19 premises, 8.67 ha, $6,182,300 assessedA MAMH

Looked for and not found

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

Which statute the Baie-Comeau roll means by the law code PLIP-1, cited at arts. 2(1), 3(1) and 3(2) against the gare maritime at 14-30 avenue Cartier ($33,343,500) and one vacant route Maritime lot ($108,400). Three other units in the same file cite the federal Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act by its proper code, M-13, so PLIP-1 is something else, and the federal real-property register lists no Transport Canada holding at the Baie-Comeau port.
Who owns the port's cargo terminal at 14-30 avenue Cartier and the passenger ferry terminal at 14-18 route Maritime. The Port de Baie-Comeau has a chief executive who speaks publicly for it, but its own domain (portbc.ca) does not resolve, so what the Port owns as against what it operates could not be established.
Who owns the grain and bulk terminal at 30 route Maritime (599,683.6 m², $24,855,900), the city's fifth most valuable parcel.
Who owns 1401 boulevard Jolliet, the 304-dwelling building that is Baie-Comeau's largest residential holding and its largest taxable asset outside heavy industry.
What Norderra paid for the paper-mill site, and whether the sale included the whole 536.77 ha unit. Both Côte-Nord outlets report the acquisition of assets; neither states a price, and Domtar had not confirmed the sale when they published.
Which network operator holds the 1,057.62 ha art. 204(7°) parcel at 3860 boulevard Laflèche, and whether the 730.1 ha and 447.8 ha parcels next to it on boulevard Laflèche and boulevard Comeau belong to the same holder.
Which school service centre or CEGEP holds each of the 15 Baie-Comeau parcels the roll exempts under art. 204(13°).
Whether the McCormick generating station stands inside Baie-Comeau's municipal boundary. Alcoa's 10-K places it on the Manicouagan River and the City has a rue McCormick, but art. 68 keeps dams and generating stations off the roll, so the roll cannot answer it and no boundary source was opened.
Owner names are redacted from the provincial bulk roll and the licence forbids re-identifying them, so the only lawful owner channel is the City's own per-property lookup, one address at a time.
Re-sourced 2026-10-10 from MAMH's quarterly roll (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM96020.xml); the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. Differences: 8,782 units and $2,661,229,600 against 8,777 and $2,657,691,600; non-taxable $451,743,750 (was $457,031,550); 204(3°) $116,686,250 over 540 units (was $116,205,850 over 538); 204(1°) $21,471,600 (was $21,487,800); 204(5°) $6,548,000 over 4 units (was $12,071,200 over 70 — the deposited Sommaire's figure; the earlier claim that 63 of them are vacant land held by the municipality's housing arm could not be re-established and is dropped); 204(1.1°) $931,800 (was $1,160,600); 115-135 boulevard Comeau $14,802,700 (was $15,863,400); the gare maritime's land 209,757.2 m² (was 207,026.5); 3860 boulevard Laflèche is only partly exempt; 21 units built 2019-2025 with 14 dwellings (was 18 and 13); the route Maritime units total $252.4M (was $245.5M). The quarterly update and the deposited roll are not reconciled unit by unit.