Bolton, Ontario
Bolton has never been a municipality in its own right: Canada's names authority classifies it as an unincorporated place and, more precisely, as "a separately named area within the limits of an incorporated municipality", with a decision date of 1 January 1974 — the day regional government came to Peel and the Town of Caledon was created around it. Caledon governs, assesses and bills it. What makes Bolton worth a record is that it holds the single largest building in the town and one of the largest in the Greater Toronto Area: CT REIT's 1.4-million-square-foot Canadian Tire distribution centre on 181 acres at 8400 Healey Road, bought from Canadian Tire in a 2016 sale-and-leaseback at a total investment of $325 million. Nothing else in Caledon comes close, and the town's whole office-building assessment class is worth $1.47 million — less than one per cent of its farmland.
4 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 12 sources · 4 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Bolton is a community inside the Town of Caledon and was never a municipality. Natural Resources Canada's geographical names database records it in Peel with the concise code UNP — an unincorporated place — and the generic code 200, which the same database defines as "a separately named area within the limits of an incorporated municipality"; its decision date is 1 January 1974, the date the database also gives for the Town of Caledon itself. The Town of Caledon files the Financial Information Return, MPAC assesses the parcels and Caledon and the Region of Peel levy the taxes; no Bolton figure exists anywhere in Ontario's published municipal finances. Ownership follows the provincial rule and the rule is that the register is public but not open: ServiceOntario states the land registry "contains the official records of property ownership and other legal interests such as mortgages, transfers and leases", that it "covers more than 7.4 million parcels of land in the province", that services "are only available online", and that on OnLand "You can do a self-search for a fee". Bulletin 2026-04 sets that fee at $37.10 per parcel register from 2 November 2026. There is no bulk ownership extract at any price, Teraview is for licensed users only, MPAC's values sit behind three log-in-only products and are still pegged to 1 January 2016, and Ontario publishes no price-paid file — so every Bolton owner in this record is here because a REIT, a developer or the federal register published it, not because a register was searched.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Tire Distribution Centre 8400 Healey Road, Bolton (Town of Caledon) 1,400,000 sq ft on 181 acres |
Industrial | CT Real Estate Investment Trust CT REIT's 2025 Annual Information Form lists "8400 Healey Road, Town of Caledon" in its Industrial Properties table: site area 181 acres, ceiling clearance 40 ft, 244 shipping and receiving doors, year built 2016, Canadian Tire GLA 1,400,000 sq ft, no third-party GLA, 100 per cent occupied, lease expiring 2036. It is the REIT's largest Ontario industrial asset and 32 per cent of its 4,356,717 sq ft industrial portfolio. CT REIT held 378 properties and 31.7 million sq ft of GLA at 31 December 2025, with Canadian Tire Corporation taking 92.1 per cent of total GLA. |
REIT | CAD $325,000,000 2016-06 CT REIT's own release: a sale and leaseback from Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, "a total investment of $325 million", 20-year lease, 5.23% going-in cap rate, 1.25% annual rent escalations, expected to close June 2016. A |
| SmartCentres Bolton 150 McEwan Drive East, Bolton, ON L7E 2Y3 (Town of Caledon) 239,629 sq ft |
Retail | SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust 100% SmartCentres' own property page for the centre states the address, "SQUARE FEET 239,629" and "OWNERSHIP 100%", and describes it as "a Walmart Supercentre-anchored shopping centre visible and accessible from Highway 50 at McEwan Drive East" with Swiss Chalet, Telus, Mark's, the LCBO and Reitmans. It is Bolton's enclosed retail core and the only shopping centre in the community whose ownership any opened source states. This is the owner's own page rather than a register, and it carries no purchase price or date. |
REIT | —A |
| BOLT by Beedie 399 Healey Road, Bolton, ON (Town of Caledon) 7 industrial condominium units from ±14,000 sq ft each |
Industrial | Beedie Beedie's own listing page for BOLT gives the address as 399 Healey Road, Bolton, zoning MP-310 Prestige Industrial, and describes "7 highly efficient industrial condos available for ownership or lease. Unit sizes start at ±14,000 SF, are bolstered by 36' clear height and have a combination of dock & grade loading in every unit", listed "For Sale & Lease" and "Now Selling / Now Leasing". The developer is the owner today and will not be once the condominium units sell — which is exactly the kind of change an Ontario record cannot track, because there is no price-paid file and the register costs $37.10 a parcel. |
Developer | —A |
| Bolton Post Office 43 King Street West, Bolton, ON L7E 1A0 (Town of Caledon) 421 m² on 0.1 ha |
Retail | Canada Post Corporation Directory of Federal Real Property, property 61562, interest type Crown Owned, one building, 421 m² of floor space. It is the largest of the four federal properties in the whole Town of Caledon — the others are the post offices at Caledon East, Caledon Village and Inglewood — and the entire federal estate in the town is 0.3527 ha and 682 m². There is no federal office, no defence land and no federal lease anywhere in Caledon. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Everything financial in this section is the Town of Caledon's and not Bolton's, and the record says so plainly: the Financial Information Return is filed by the municipality, Caledon files one return for 688 square kilometres, and nothing in it is broken down by community. What the Caledon return does show is the shape of a town that is mostly farmland with one enormous warehouse in it — the office-building assessment class for the entire municipality is $1.47 million, against $963 million of farmland and $17.7 billion of housing.
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.
Caledon is a town of 688 square kilometres with a billion dollars of farmland assessment and almost no office floor space, and Bolton is the one place in it where land is held in large commercial blocks rather than in fields.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| CT Real Estate Investment Trust The largest single site in Bolton whose owner any opened source names, from CT REIT's own Annual Information Form. For comparison the entire federal estate in the Town of Caledon is 0.35 ha. |
REIT | 181 acres (73.2 ha) at 8400 Healey RoadA |
| Government of Canada (Canada Post) Directory of Federal Real Property. Canada owns less land in the whole Town of Caledon than a suburban cul-de-sac, and leases none of it. |
Government | 0.3527 ha across four post offices town-wideA |
| Every private holder of Caledon farmland The Financial Information Return publishes the total assessed value of Caledon's farmland class but no holder, no parcel and no concentration measure. Ontario has no open assessment roll, no price-paid file and no bulk ownership extract, so who holds the land around Bolton cannot be established at any tier, and the record will not guess. |
Private company | not established — $963,361,822 of assessed farmlandA |
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.
Bolton's house building divides neatly into two kinds of company and the builder register shows both. One kind is local and old: four separate licensees share a single address at 2 Holland Drive in Bolton, and the largest of them, Willow Terrace Estates Inc., has 211 possessions. The other kind is a Greater Toronto platform that incorporates a numbered or named company for each Bolton subdivision and registers it at head office in Concord, Aurora or Toronto — Zancor Homes (Bolton) Ltd., Camcos (Bolton Village) Inc., Paradise Developments King Street Bolton Inc. Two of those three were licensed in the last eighteen months and have no possessions yet, which is what the front edge of a subdivision looks like in this register. The standing caveat applies: the directory gives the licensee's REGISTERED address, not where the homes were built, and figures are cumulative province-wide possessions, 2016–2026.
| Name | Type | Total possessions (cumulative, Ontario) |
|---|---|---|
| Willow Terrace Estates Inc. 211 freehold and no condominium, account B36751, licensed 4 August 2006, registered at 2 Holland Drive, Bolton. The largest Bolton-registered builder in Ontario's directory. Three further licensees share that address — Heysham Enterprises Limited (licensed 1979), Pacific Homes Limited (1986) and Redberry Homes Incorporated (2006) — none of which the register returns a possession count for. |
Private company | 211A |
| C. S. Bachly Builders Limited 32 freehold, account B31933, licensed 10 January 2002, registered at 27 Nixon Road, Bolton. A second licensee at the same address, 1000942308 Ontario Inc., was licensed on 15 January 2026 with no possessions recorded. |
Private company | 32A |
| Zancor Homes (Bolton) Ltd. 17 freehold, account B60449, umbrella Zancor Homes, licensed 28 July 2021 and registered at 221 North Rivermede Road, Concord. A project company named for Bolton but run from Vaughan — the pattern that makes a city-address search of this register useless on its own. |
Private company | 17A |
| Camcos (Bolton Village) Inc. Account B63371, umbrella Camcos Living, licensed 12 June 2025, registered at 238 Wellington Street East, Aurora. A Bolton subdivision company that has not yet closed a house. |
Private company | no possessions recordedA |
| Paradise Developments King Street Bolton Inc. Account B64896, umbrella Paradise Homes, licensed 29 May 2026 and registered at 1 Herons Hill Way, Toronto — the newest Bolton licensee in the province's directory by nine months. |
Private company | no possessions recordedA |
| Olafson Homes Limited and the Bolton tail Olafson Homes Limited (B62921, 18 Sant Farm Drive) 4; 2470014 Ontario Inc. (134 Haines Drive) 3; 2322669 Ontario Inc. (12543 Highway 50) and Pella J Developments Inc. (8 Palmer Circle) 2 each; 2844155 Ontario Inc. (16822 Mount Wolfe Road) 1. Eighteen licensees in all give Bolton as their city, most of them custom builders of one or two houses. |
Private company | 4, 3, 2, 2 and 1A |
| Town of Caledon — all builders The only official completion count that reaches Bolton, and it covers the whole town: Ontario's housing supply progress table, 715 homes in 2024 against a 1,083 target, 66.02 per cent, status "Not met", and 2,511 since 2022 against a ten-year target of 13,000. |
Government | 715 in 2024A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Bolton's commercial property is unusually legible for a community of its size, because the two biggest things in it are owned by listed REITs that publish property-level detail. Between them CT REIT and SmartCentres account for about 1.64 million square feet in one community — more floor space than many Ontario cities hold in total — and the rest of the Healey Road and Coleraine Drive industrial district is a mix of owner-occupiers and private landlords that no opened source names.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| CT Real Estate Investment Trust CT REIT 2025 Annual Information Form: 8400 Healey Road, Town of Caledon, the largest of its five industrial properties, 100 per cent occupied on a lease to 2036. The portfolio totals 31,709,453 sq ft of GLA with Canadian Tire Corporation at 92.1 per cent of it, so the REIT is in substance Canadian Tire's landlord. |
REIT | 1,400,000 sq ft on 181 acres (Bolton); 31,709,453 sq ft across 378 properties (Canada)A |
| SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust SmartCentres' own property page for SmartCentres Bolton at 150 McEwan Drive East states the square footage and "OWNERSHIP 100%". No purchase price or acquisition date is given on it. |
REIT | 239,629 sq ft, 100% ownedA |
| Beedie BOLT at 399 Healey Road, from Beedie's own listing: now selling and now leasing, 36 ft clear height, MP-310 Prestige Industrial zoning. A developer's interim ownership that is designed to end in sale. |
Developer | 7 industrial condominium units from ±14,000 sq ftA |
| The rest of the Healey Road and Coleraine Drive industrial district Bolton's industrial district holds several hundred thousand square feet beyond the three entries above, including a large fulfilment operation on Coleraine Drive. No REIT filing, annual report or company page opened in this research names the owner of any of it, and the only route to a name is the Ontario parcel register at $37.10 per PIN. The record leaves it blank rather than naming an occupier as an owner. |
Private company | not establishedA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Any Bolton-only assessment, levy, population or housing figure. The Town of Caledon files one Financial Information Return and the province sets one housing target for the town.
- The owner of the fulfilment centre and the other large warehouses on Coleraine Drive. No filing or company page opened in this research names them, and naming the occupier as the owner would breach this section's own rule.
- The ownership and size of the Husky plant on Queen Street South, Bolton. husky.co's locations page is a 404 and its contact page renders no location data to a script.
- Any assessed value for any Bolton or Caledon parcel. MPAC publishes no roll, its lookup is CAPTCHA-gated and the 2026 tax year still runs on 1 January 2016 values.
- Any per-sale price with an address in Ontario. The $325 million in this record is a REIT's own disclosure of a portfolio transaction, not a registered consideration.
- Anything at all from the Town of Caledon itself. caledon.ca redirects every deep path to a 404 page served with full site chrome, so no municipal facility list, asset inventory, council report or conflict-of-interest registry was opened.
- Whether any sitting member of Caledon Town Council holds property in Bolton relevant to a council decision. No registry was reachable; nothing was established and nothing is alleged.
Sources
- Land Registry — "the official records of property ownership and other legal interests", "more than 7.4 million parcels", services "only available online", "You can do a self-search for a fee" — ServiceOntario (Government of Ontario) · openA
- Bulletin No. 2026-04, Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 — copy of parcel register including first page $9.70 + $24.25 + $3.15 = $37.10; adjacent parcel register per PIN $13.15; additional page $2.56; inactive parcel register $1.36 — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Land Registry Services Branch · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full XML dataset (custodian, interest type, land area, floor area, building count, parcel coordinates) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- The Assessment Cycle — "Property assessments for the 2026 property tax year will continue to be based on fully phased-in January 1, 2016 current values." — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation · openA
- Canadian Geographical Names Database — "Bolton", Peel, concise code UNP, generic 200 ("a separately named area within the limits of an incorporated municipality"), decision date 1974-01-01; "Caledon", Peel, TOWN, generic 2, decision date 1974-01-01 — Natural Resources Canada · openA
- Financial Information Return, multi-year bulk data — Town of Caledon 2025, Schedule 26 taxable assessment by class and Schedule 22 levies — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory — licensee records and possession counts (api/builders, api/buildersummary) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority · openA
- Ontario's housing supply: January – December 2024 — Caledon 13,000 / 2,511 / 1,083 / 715 / 66.02% / Not met — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA
- 2025 Annual Information Form — Industrial Properties table, "8400 Healey Road, Town of Caledon", 181 acres, 1,400,000 sq ft, 100% occupied, lease expiry 2036; portfolio 31,709,453 sq ft — CT Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- SmartCentres Bolton property page — 150 McEwan Drive East, 239,629 sq ft, "OWNERSHIP 100%", Walmart Supercentre-anchored — SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust · openA
- BOLT by Beedie, 399 Healey Road, Bolton — 7 industrial condominiums from ±14,000 sq ft, 36 ft clear, MP-310 Prestige Industrial, for sale and lease — Beedie · openA
- CT Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Agreement to Acquire and Leaseback Distribution Centre property in Bolton, Ontario — "a total investment of $325 million", 20-year lease, 5.23% going-in cap rate — CT Real Estate Investment Trust · openA