Campbell River, British Columbia
Campbell River is the rare BC city that prints the answer: its own audited annual report names its ten largest municipal taxpayers, and the list is led not by a logging company but by a 275 MW gas plant owned by Capital Power, followed by the shopping centre the Wei Wai Kum First Nation co-owns, and by the family rental-housing firm, Broadstreet, that was founded here and now holds more than 17,000 units across Canada.
7 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 17 sources · 4 tier B · 3 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
British Columbia's land title register is run by the Land Title and Survey Authority and anyone may search it, but every search is a paid transaction: $11.06 for a search under section 377 of the Land Title Act on the LTSA Customer Fee Listing current at 1 April 2026. There is no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. What is unusual is the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filing obligations running from 30 November 2020 and public search live since 30 April 2021 — which names the individuals behind corporations, trusts and partnerships that own BC land; the same LTSA schedule prices a search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act at NIL. At the scale of a city of 35,519 nobody publishes building-level ownership, but Campbell River publishes something most BC municipalities do not: a Top Ten Municipal Taxpayers table in its audited annual report, naming the corporations and what each paid. That table, the province's assessment roll by class and the province's land-designation layer are what this record is built on.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Harbour Centre 1416 Island Highway 442,760 sq ft GLA on 40 acres |
Retail | Northwest Realty Inc. (dba Northwest Properties) and Wei Wai Kum First Nation Northwest Properties states it owns 73.9% Northwest Properties' own property page calls it "the principal shopping centre in the city of Campbell River", gives 442,760 sq ft of gross leasable area on 40 acres with Canadian Tire, Real Canadian Superstore, Winners, JYSK and Staples plus 17,000 sq ft of waterfront office, states "Discovery Harbour Centre is co-owned with Wei Wai Kum First Nation" and carries an ownership line of "Own 73.9%". The Nation's own page states the centre "was developed and is managed by the Wei Wai Kum First Nation (Campbell River Indian Band) and Northwest Properties". The City names Discovery Harbour Holdings Ltd its second largest taxpayer, $652,684.64. No source states title; no price is published. |
Private company | —B |
| Island Generation Campbell River, Vancouver Island |
Industrial | Capital Power Corporation Capital Power's own operations page states Island Generation is "a 275-megawatt natural gas-fired combined cycle facility located in Campbell River on Vancouver Island, BC", that "we acquired the facility in October 2010 when it was fully contracted under a 12-year tolling arrangement with BC Hydro that expired in April 2022", and that a 4.5-year Electricity Purchase Agreement with BC Hydro runs to October 2026. The City's 2025 Annual Report names Capital Power Generation Services Inc as Campbell River's largest municipal taxpayer at $1,863,444.08 — more than a third of the top ten combined. No acquisition price is stated, so none is recorded. |
Public company | —B |
| Campbell River Airport (YBL) Erickson Road, Campbell River |
Civic | City of Campbell River The City's 2025 Annual Report states "The Campbell River Airport (YBL) is owned by" the City and that the City is responsible for its operation, lists airport buildings operations and maintenance as a city service, records that construction began on airport fuel systems and that a new airport viewing area opened in the year, and reports a net decrease in Airport Reserves of $292,756. The report also notes the City received no funding under the Airports Capital Assistance Program during the year. |
Government | —A |
| Shoppers Row redevelopment block ("Reimagine the Row"), 1300-block 1300-block Shoppers Row |
Mixed use | City of Campbell River The City's December 2025 release states that Seymour Pacific Developments Ltd. and Broadstreet Properties Ltd. were selected as the successful proponent, that "the developer will hold a long-term lease for the residential component" and that "the City will retain ownership of the land and ground floor civic and commercial premises". Designs include up to 200 rental units, at least 10% affordable, a civic area, a Downtown Safety Office and commercial space. $3.2 million of Housing Accelerator Fund money was used to support property acquisition; demolition of 1342 Shoppers Row began in December 2025. |
Government | —A |
| Tidemark Theatre 1220 Shoppers Row |
Civic | Not established a paid title search would answer it The City's 2025 Annual Report lists the Tidemark Theatre only among the "downtown partners" the City works closely with, alongside the Downtown BIA, the Vancouver Island Regional Library and the Campbell River Art Gallery — which is not a statement of ownership. The theatre does not appear in the City's capital works, its debt schedule or its segment reporting. No document opened here states who holds title, so no owner is recorded. |
Not established | —A |
| Maritime Heritage Centre 621 Island Highway |
Institutional | City of Campbell River The City's 2025 Annual Report records the Visitor Information Centre operating at the Maritime Heritage Centre and lists "Maritime Heritage Centre roof and heat pump replacement" among the City's own facility capital goals for 2026, in the same column as Fire Hall #1 roof replacement and the RCMP chiller — a municipality budgeting a roof replacement on a building it does not own would be unusual, but the report does not state title in terms. City buildings carry $18,197,559 of net book value against $46,770,609 of cost. |
Government | —B |
| Campbell River Sportsplex and Enterprise Centre 1800 South Alder Street (Sportsplex) |
Civic | City of Campbell River The City's 2025 Annual Report records that the City provides "Custodial services for all City recreation facilities, City Hall, the Enterprise Centre, Norm Wood Environmental Centre, the City of Campbell River Airport (YBL), and the City Pound", describes the city as "home to an active Sportsplex", and notes reserve activity in recent years "for the airport and Sportsplex". Total City tangible capital assets are $325,812,150 net book value at 31 December 2025, of which land is $47,116,004 at cost and buildings $18,197,559. The report names the facilities as the City's; it does not state title for each. |
Government | —B |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Campbell River's assessment base is published in full, by class, by the province, and the City publishes its own ten largest taxpayers. Between them they say something precise: the biggest single rateable thing in town is a power station, the retail core is one centre, and private managed forest inside the city limits is worth $16.4M — a rounding error against $10.2bn of houses. The Land Designations for Forest Management layer is a forest-management product and its own catalogue entry says it "SHOULD NOT be used for operational level analysis". Inside a built-up municipality its residual class "Forest Management Unit" swallows whatever it has not mapped — we probed it and it returned that class for roads, rail corridor, parks, hospital land, filled foreshore and the bed of the Fraser River — so it is NOT read here as Crown forest inside a town boundary. Outside the boundary, over a rural box, that class is the provincial forest land base and is read as Crown.
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.
Campbell River is where the Nakusp answer flips. Around Nakusp the Crown owned roughly 96% of the land and the big forest company owned almost none of it. Here, over a 2,197 km2 box around the city, 53.6% of the land is privately owned and 44.9% is Crown — the legacy of the E&N and other land grants on eastern Vancouver Island. The forest tenures are still licences, not ownership: Western Forest Products holds Tree Farm Licences 39 and 64 over 188,019 ha and 156,158 ha of Crown land, and TimberWest Forest Corp holds TFL 47 over 125,635 ha, while the province's Schedule A layer — the layer that maps land a tree farm licensee actually owns — returns 4,042.3 ha for TFL 64 and 316.2 ha for TFL 47 inside the box. Inside the city boundary the land is 57.0% private, 4.2% municipal and 3.2% First Nation reserve. Who the private owners are is not published; the City's own top-ten taxpayer table is the closest thing to a list, and it is reproduced above.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Privately held land (owner not published) Derived from our own 200 m grid sample of the province's Land Designations for Forest Management layer over a 2,197 km2 box around Campbell River (54,934 points): 88,740 ha classed Private Parcel, 3,244 ha Tree Farm Licence Schedule A and 1,032 ha Woodlot Licence Schedule A, against 46,340 ha of water. Inside the legal city boundary the same layer, sampled at 50 m (64,716 points, 16,179.0 ha), gives 8,777.2 ha of Private Parcel, 57.0% of the 15,389.8 ha of dry land. The layer is licensed "Access Only", so only this derived aggregate is published, never the data. The layer records the designation, never the owner's name. |
Private company | about 93,016 ha of 173,396 ha of land, 53.6%A |
| Province of British Columbia (provincial Crown) The same grid sample resolves 31,324 ha to the forest management unit land base, 13,788 ha to watershed reserve, 9,812 ha to woodlot licence Schedule B, 8,220 ha to tree farm licence Schedule B, 7,028 ha to provincial park, 4,180 ha to miscellaneous reserves, 2,280 ha to community watershed and 904 ha to forest recreation. Inside the city boundary the named Crown designations total about 5,388 ha — Pacific provincial park land, community watershed, watershed reserve and forest recreation — but see the caveat: the layer's residual class is not evidence of Crown forest inside a town. |
Government | about 77,780 ha of 173,396 ha of land, 44.9%A |
| Western Forest Products Inc. A tree farm licence is an exclusive right to harvest Crown land, not ownership of it. The province's tree farm licence current-view layer returns TFL 39 at 188,019.4 ha and TFL 64 at 156,157.6 ha with Western Forest Products Inc. as licensee, both reaching the Campbell River box. The Schedule A layer — "private land or timber owned by the Tree Farm licence holder" — returns 4,042.3 ha for TFL 64 inside the box. Calling the licence ownership would overstate the company's freehold by about eighty-five to one. |
Public company | 344,177 ha of Crown tenure; 4,042 ha of freehold in the boxA |
| TimberWest Forest Corp The province's tree farm licence current-view layer names Timberwest Forest Corp as licensee of TFL 47, 125,635.2 ha, reaching the Campbell River box; the Schedule A layer returns 316.2 ha of licensee-owned land for TFL 47 inside the box. TimberWest's lands are managed by Mosaic Forest Management Corp., whose own site states it is "a diversified, 100% Canadian-owned land solutions company focused on long-term value creation from private forest lands and public forest tenures" and that it is "Canadian owned and backed by public service pension funds investing for the long term". Mosaic's site does not state a hectare figure for its private land base, and no source opened attributes any specific parcel near Campbell River to it, so the large private share around the city is NOT attributed to Mosaic here. |
Pension fund | 125,635 ha of Crown tenure; 316 ha of freehold in the boxB |
| Wei Wai Kum First Nation and We Wai Kai Nation The land designation grid sample inside the city boundary returns 487.5 ha classed First Nation Reserve under federal administration, 3.2% of the city's dry land, plus 67.0 ha of other federal parcels; over the wider box the reserve total is 1,344 ha. The City's own 2025 Annual Report opens by acknowledging "the Wei Wai Kum (Campbell River Indian Band) and We Wai Kai (Cape Mudge Indian Band)" and the Homalco First Nation, and records partnership work with both Nations. Reserve land is held by the Crown in right of Canada for the use and benefit of the band; this record states the designation the public layer carries and nothing beyond it. |
Government | 487.5 ha of federal reserve inside the city, 3.2% of its landB |
| City of Campbell River The City owns the airport, the Sportsplex, the Enterprise Centre, the Norm Wood Environmental Centre, the Maritime Heritage Centre and the 1300-block of Shoppers Row it is redeveloping, and it states it will retain the land there. The land column of its audited tangible capital asset schedule is $47,116,004 of cost at 31 December 2025 within $325,812,150 of net book value. The land-designation sample inside the boundary gives 520.2 ha of municipal parcels and 130.8 ha of local and regional park. |
Government | $47,116,004 of land at cost; about 651 ha of municipal parcels and parksA |
Where property meets office
Recorded only where a public record states it — a disclosure registry, council minutes, a land-use decision. Stated as fact, with nothing inferred from it.
| Holder | Office | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| City of Campbell River | Mayor Kermit Dahl and Council, 2022–2026 term | The 1300-block of Shoppers Row, retained in City ownership and leased long-term to a private developer The City published the selection of Seymour Pacific Developments Ltd. and Broadstreet Properties Ltd. as the successful proponent after a February 2025 Expression of Interest, and published the structure: the developer holds a long-term lease for the residential component, the City retains ownership of the land and the ground-floor civic and commercial premises, and $3.2 million of Housing Accelerator Fund money was used to support property acquisition. The Mayor and the developer's chief executive are both quoted in the City's own release. Nothing here suggests any private interest of any elected official; the record is published by the City itself. A |
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.
Canada publishes no builder-level counts for a city this size, but Campbell River is the home town of one of the country's larger private apartment builders and that firm publishes its own numbers. The City issued 221 building permit applications and administered 14 new subdivision applications in 2025. Everything else here is a local contractor; no league table exists and none is invented.
| Name | Type | Units built |
|---|---|---|
| Seymour Pacific Developments Ltd. The company's own site states "Over 30 years we have built more than 19,000 units, over 220,000 square feet of commercial space, and completed over 130 communities", that it develops and builds "over 1,500 units a year across Canada", that it is "family owned and operated", and that it is "Based in Campbell River, BC". It began as Mailman Construction and became Seymour Pacific Developments in December 1992. Its CEO is quoted by the City saying "Campbell River is our home. My family has been a part of this community for almost 80 years." |
Family / private | 19,000+ units in 30 years; 1,500+ a yearA |
| Broadstreet Properties Ltd. Broadstreet is the rental ownership and management arm of the same Campbell River family group. The City's 2025 Annual Report lists it twice in the top ten taxpayers — "Broadstreet Properties Ltd (1067690 BC Ltd.)" at $489,852.89 and "Broadstreet Properties Ltd" at $239,628.97 — which together make it the largest private residential landowner by municipal tax paid in the city. It is the named co-proponent with Seymour Pacific for the City's Reimagine the Row redevelopment, where it will hold a long-term lease rather than the land. |
Family / private | $729,481.86 of 2025 municipal taxes across two listed entitiesA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The entire business-and-other class in Campbell River is assessed at $977.1M on the 2026 roll and only 39 commercial transactions completed in 2025. One centre dominates the retail market, and the City itself is the other substantial commercial landlord through the downtown block it is redeveloping.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Realty Inc. (dba Northwest Properties) Its own portfolio page gives Discovery Harbour Centre 442,760 sq ft of gross leasable area on 40 acres, co-owned with Wei Wai Kum First Nation, with its stake stated as 73.9%. The same portfolio lists Discovery Crescent in Campbell River and Coronation Centre in Duncan. The firm is a Vancouver-based private landlord; no filing was opened and no asset total is published. |
Private company | 442,760 sq ft at Discovery Harbour Centre; 73.9% stake statedA |
| Wei Wai Kum First Nation The Nation's own economic development pages list Discovery Harbour Shopping Centre, Discovery Crescent Shopping Centre, Discovery Harbour Marina, Discovery Harbour Fuel Sales, Thunderbird RV Park & Resort, CRIBCO Forest Products Ltd., the Wei Wai Kum House of Treasures and the Wei Wai Kum Net Loft as its businesses, and state that Discovery Harbour Shopping Centre "was developed and is managed by the Wei Wai Kum First Nation (Campbell River Indian Band) and Northwest Properties". Northwest Properties states the centre is co-owned with the Nation. |
Government | co-owner of a 442,760 sq ft centre, plus marina, RV park and fuel salesA |
| City of Campbell River The City's December 2025 release states it will retain ownership of the land and the ground-floor civic and commercial premises in the Reimagine the Row redevelopment, granting the developer a long-term lease for the residential component only. It also owns the airport, the Sportsplex, the Enterprise Centre and the Maritime Heritage Centre. City land is carried at $47,116,004 of cost. |
Government | the 1300-block of Shoppers Row, retained freeholdA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Who holds registered title to Discovery Harbour Centre. Northwest Properties states a 73.9% ownership share and co-ownership with Wei Wai Kum First Nation; the City's taxpayer table names Discovery Harbour Holdings Ltd. No document opened reconciles the three, and no price is published.
- The owners behind the other named top-ten taxpayers — Mariner Holdings Ltd, Raven Forest Products Ltd, A B Edie Equities Inc., Discovery Sound Investments Holdings Inc., NTE Maple Holdings Ltd and Steve Marshall Motors Ltd. The City publishes the corporate names and the tax paid, not the properties or the principals. A free LOTR search would name the interest holders behind any of these that is a reporting body, but LOTR search requires an account, which was not opened here.
- Who owns the roughly 88,740 ha of private parcels around Campbell River. The province's land-designation layer records the designation and never the owner. Mosaic Forest Management manages TimberWest and Island Timberlands lands on eastern Vancouver Island, but neither Mosaic's own site nor any provincial layer opened here attributes a specific hectare figure near Campbell River to it, so the attribution is not made.
- The John Hart generating station and dam. BC Hydro's own pages for it return 404 to a browser user agent, so no claim about it is made beyond the City's own historical note that the John Hart Dam development took place here.
- Whether the City holds the Tidemark Theatre in fee simple or operates it under lease. The 2025 Annual Report lists it among the organisations the City funds and works with; it does not state title.
- No open dataset names the owner of any BC parcel. ParcelMap BC's public extract is geometry plus PID; the fully attributed variant is licensed to government only; BC Assessment's full roll is "named users" only and its site forbids commercial use of the values.
- BC publishes no price-paid file. Property transfer tax data is monthly counts and aggregate fair market value by municipality, with small counts suppressed — for Campbell River the corporate-transaction count was suppressed in 10 of 12 months of 2025.
- LOTR covers only land held through corporations, trusts and partnerships. Land held directly by an individual is out of scope.
Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026 — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- BC Assessment homepage, terms of use and copyright notice — BC Assessment · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 701, Assessed Values for the year 2026 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Property Transfer Tax Data 2025 — municipal monthly file — BC Ministry of Finance / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Land Designations for Forest Management (ANA_LDFM_LND_DESIG_FOR_MGMT_SP) — BC Ministry of Forests / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP), WFS — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- 2025 Annual Report — City of Campbell River (audited consolidated financial statements, Principal Taxpayers, Permissive Tax Exemptions, Statement of Financial Information) — City of Campbell River · openA
- Discovery Harbour Centre — property page — Northwest Realty Inc. dba Northwest Properties · openA
- Discovery Harbour Shopping Centre — Economic Development — Wei Wai Kum First Nation · openA
- Island Generation — Capital Power Corporation · openA
- City Partners with Local, Community-Focused Developer to Increase Housing and Advance Downtown Revitalization (Reimagine the Row) — City of Campbell River · openA
- Seymour Pacific Developments — about and projects — Seymour Pacific Developments Ltd. · openA
- FADM — Tree Farm Licence Current View (FADM_TFL_ALL_SP) and Tree Farm Licence Schedule A (FADM_TFL_SCHED_A), WFS over a 2,197 km2 box around Campbell River — BC Ministry of Forests / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- About Mosaic Forest Management — Mosaic Forest Management Corp. · openA
- BC Physical Address Geocoder — GeoBC / Province of British Columbia · openA