Castlegar, British Columbia
A city of 9,301 where the two big private holdings are auditable from filings rather than guessed at: the Zellstoff Celgar pulp mill on a 400-acre site, owned by NASDAQ-listed Mercer International and rated at 520,000 tonnes of NBSK pulp and 100 MW of generation, and Interfor's Castlegar sawmill on the same road. Castlegar's major-industry assessment is $81,944,700 — fifty times Nelson's — the City owns the West Kootenay Regional Airport outright, and three Columbia Power generating stations on the two rivers that meet here hold 450 MW that no municipality owns.
10 buildings · 10 with an owner established · 19 sources · 7 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-09-27
Can you find out who owns it?
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: the LTSA Customer Fee Listing, fees as at 1 April 2026, prices a "Title Search" and "a search under section 377" of the Land Title Act at $11.06. There is no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. The unusual piece is the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filings required from 30 November 2020, public search open since 30 April 2021 — which names the individuals behind corporations, trusts and partnerships holding BC land, and which the same schedule prices at NIL: "Search of publicly accessible information under section 35. NIL". At the scale of a city of 9,300 the binding constraint is not the register's openness but publication: nobody publishes building-level ownership for Castlegar and BC Assessment's own site forbids commercial use of its values. What rescues the record here is that the two largest private holdings belong to reporting issuers — Mercer International files a Form 10-K with the SEC and Interfor an Annual Information Form on SEDAR+ — so the mill sites, capacities and timber positions are stated in filings. The City itself publishes an annual report with a permissive tax-exemption schedule naming every exempt organisation, and a municipal tax certificate is orderable through LTSA's Tax Certificates Online for $110.26.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$11.06 — "Title Search" and "For a search under section 377 or a copy of the search results, or both" (LTSA Customer Fee Listing, fees as at April 1, 2026). A search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule. A Castlegar municipal tax certificate is $110.26 through LTSA's Tax Certificates Online.
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- bcassessment.ca — “Any commercial use of these data in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, including the use of such data for business, residential address or telephone directory services or any solicitation service is specifically prohibited except with the prior written authority of the owner of the copyright.”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zellstoff Celgar pulp mill 400-acre site near the city of Castlegar, on the south bank of the Columbia River; the mill road is Arrow Lakes Drive |
Industrial | Mercer International Inc. (NASDAQ: MERC) Mercer's FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties: "We own the Stendal, Rosenthal, Celgar, Peace River pulp mills, and their underlying properties… The Celgar mill is situated on a 400 acre site near the city of Castlegar, British Columbia… approximately 375 miles east of the port city of Vancouver… and approximately 20 miles north of the Canada-U.S. border." It is a single-line ISO 9001 and 14001 certified NBSK mill with annual capacity of about 520,000 ADMTs and "a power station with two turbines capable of producing approximately 100 MW of electrical power", self-sufficient in steam and power. The site includes about 450,000 sq ft of fibre storage and 440,000 sq ft of roundwood storage. |
Public company | —A |
| Celgar mill power station and surplus-energy contract Celgar mill site, Castlegar |
Industrial | Mercer International Inc. (NASDAQ: MERC) The 10-K states: "Our Celgar mill is party to an electricity sales agreement with the provincial energy utility for a ten-year term that expires in October 2030. Pursuant to the agreement, the mill agreed to supply a maximum of approximately 127,000 MWh of surplus electrical energy annually to the utility." In 2025 the mill had 20 days of unplanned downtime from mechanical failures and six more from a slow restart, and the year's Canadian capital spending went mainly to completing the mill's new wood room. |
Public company | —A |
| Interfor Castlegar Division sawmill 2705 Arrow Lakes Drive, Castlegar, BC V1N 4H1 |
Industrial | Interfor Corporation Interfor's 2025 Annual Information Form states: "We own three sawmill operations within the B.C. Interior region and timber tenures having a total AAC of 1.7 million cubic metres… our Castlegar and Grand Forks operations are located in the southern interior of B.C." and "The Adams Lake and Castlegar operations include systems for transporting logs on Adams Lake and Arrow Lakes, respectively." The three B.C. Interior mills have a combined rated capacity of 750 million board feet and produced 647 million in 2025; per-mill capacity is not disclosed. The division is live: Interfor's own location page carried an open Castlegar operations posting at $52.605 an hour in September 2026. |
Public company | —A |
| West Kootenay Regional Airport (YCG) Castlegar, BC |
Civic | City of Castlegar The City's 2025 Annual Report states plainly: "The West Kootenay Regional Airport is owned and operated by the City of Castlegar." It handled 30,130 passengers in 2025 and supports commercial air travel, general aviation, medevac and wildfire response through the Southeast Fire Centre. The City holds an Airport fund reserve of $784,178 and reports airport expenditure of $1,712,432; it is advancing a Required Navigation Performance application with Transport Canada and planning an air terminal expansion. Grand Forks's own visitor material notes that "the closest regional airport is a 1 hour drive to Castlegar". |
Government | —A |
| Kalesnikoff mass-timber prefabrication and modular facility Castlegar, BC |
Industrial | Kalesnikoff The City's 2025 Annual Report records: "Welcomed the grand opening of Kalesnikoff's 100,000 sq. ft. mass-timber prefabrication and modular facility, a $30 million investment that brings jobs to the region and strengthens Castlegar's role in sustainable, value-added manufacturing." Kalesnikoff's own history page describes a fourth-generation family company founded by the Kalesnikoff brothers, who came to the West Kootenay in 1922 as Russian immigrants joining the Doukhobor settlement at Champion Creek, took timber rights up China Creek ten miles south of Castlegar in the 1930s and had built their first sawmill by 1940; the sawmill still stands at Thrums. |
Family / private | —B |
| Arrow Lakes Generating Station immediately downstream of BC Hydro's Hugh Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia River, Castlegar |
Industrial | Columbia Power and Columbia Basin Trust Columbia Power 50%, Columbia Basin Trust 50% Columbia Power's own facility page gives the owner structure as "Columbia Power (50%), Columbia Basin Trust (50%)", capacity 185 megawatts on two low-head Kaplan turbines, built 1999–2002 at a construction cost of $270 million, with a 14 km transmission line to the Brilliant Terminal Station and a further 34 km line to BC Hydro's Selkirk substation. Columbia Power is the asset manager; FortisBC is the operations and maintenance manager. |
Government | —A |
| Brilliant Dam and Generating Station Kootenay River, Castlegar |
Industrial | Columbia Power and Columbia Basin Trust Columbia Power 50%, Columbia Basin Trust 50% Originally built in 1944 by Cominco, now Teck. 145 megawatts across four vertical Francis turbines, up from 125 MW at purchase, after about $100 million of capital upgrade and life-extension work including concrete rehabilitation, switchyard replacement, spillway gate refurbishment, seismic stabilisation and a generator re-powering programme. A 0.5 km link to the Brilliant Terminal Station. Jointly managed through the Brilliant Management Committee with FortisBC. |
Government | CAD $130M 1996 "The Brilliant Dam and Generating Station were purchased for $130 million in 1996 from Cominco (now Teck)" — Columbia Power facility page. A |
| Brilliant Expansion Generating Station Castlegar, BC, on the Kootenay River directly below the Brilliant Dam |
Industrial | Columbia Power and Columbia Basin Trust Columbia Power 50%, Columbia Basin Trust 50% A second powerhouse immediately downstream of the Brilliant Dam sharing the existing hydraulic head, 120 megawatts on a single Kaplan turbine, built 2003–2007. Output links to the Brilliant Terminal Station and is delivered to BC Hydro's Selkirk substation through a 34 km line. With the Brilliant Dam and Arrow Lakes stations, Columbia Power and Columbia Basin Trust jointly own 450 MW on the two rivers that meet at Castlegar. |
Government | CAD $205M 2007 The stated construction cost of the 2003–2007 build, not a purchase price — Columbia Power facility page. A |
| Selkirk College main campus 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar, BC V1N 4L3 |
Institutional | Selkirk College Selkirk College's own campus page gives 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar as the College's principal address, with the Tenth Street and Silver King campuses in Nelson. ParcelMap BC records only 10 Crown Agency parcels covering 17.5 ha inside Castlegar — 1.8% of the city's titled parcel area — so the campus is the largest institutional holding in a city where institutions hold very little. Ownership of the campus parcels was not established from a title or from the College's own statements. |
Institution | —B |
| Eremenko Building site 310 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar |
Land | City of Castlegar The 2025 Annual Report records that the City "Advanced downtown revitalization by awarding the contract for demolition of the Eremenko Building at 310 Columbia Avenue, preparing the site for future residential and mixed-use development". Awarding the demolition and preparing the site establishes the City's control rather than a registered title, and no acquisition price was stated in the documents opened. |
Government | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Castlegar is the mill town of the three. Major industry is $81,944,700 on the 2026 roll — 3.8% of a $2.18 billion base, fifty times Nelson's class total and nearly three times Grand Forks's — and business and other adds $270.4M, the largest commercial base of the three relative to population because Castlegar is the regional service centre. Private owners hold 78.3% of the titled parcel area, the highest private share of the three cities. And the City's own land position moved sharply in 2025: it sold $5.2 million of land, taking its Land Sale reserve from $388,069 to $5,469,337 in a single year.
City total assessed value (2026 roll)$2.18B
$2,183,728,166 for general municipal purposes: residential $1,695,531,921, business and other $270,420,700, utilities $121,295,045, major industry $81,944,700, light industry $14,149,100, recreation and non-profit $386,700; managed forest and farm nil. BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Local Government Statistics Schedule 701, Assessed Values for the year 2026.
Major industry assessed value (2026 roll)$81,944,700
3.8% of the City's general-purposes base, against $29,217,200 in Grand Forks and $1,653,000 in Nelson. Schedule 701 for 2026. No document opened assigns this value to a parcel, and BC Assessment's values may not be reused commercially. The candidates are the two mills on Arrow Lakes Drive: the Celgar pulp mill, whose 400-acre site Mercer describes as "near the city of Castlegar", and Interfor's Castlegar sawmill at 2705 Arrow Lakes Drive. The province's boundary layer places the geocoded Arrow Lakes Drive point inside the City of Castlegar, and the City's own annual report names "Mercer-Celgar Mill, Interfor, Kalesnikoff" as the city's forestry industry — but the record does not assert which parcels carry the class.
Private share of titled parcel area78.3%
Of 963.5 ha in 2,243 active titled parcels inside the City of Castlegar, ParcelMap BC records 754.8 ha in 2,018 Private parcels (78.3%), 103.7 ha in 106 Local Government parcels (10.8%), 41.9 ha Crown Provincial (4.3%), 31.9 ha Untitled Provincial (3.3%), 17.5 ha in 10 Crown Agency parcels (1.8%), 13.6 ha unclassified and 0.1 ha Federal. The largest single private parcel inside the city is 29.5 ha. The titled total is well below the municipality's 2,327.5 ha because road allowance, river and unsurveyed ground are not titled parcels. Derived aggregate only; no rows reproduced.
City net tangible capital assets$88,518,328
At 31 December 2025 against $187,019,169 of cost: land $14,576,694 at cost, buildings $5,950,148, equipment and vehicles $4,885,718, water $13,728,023, sewer $10,455,541, roads $28,278,641, drainage $3,562,537, other $3,671,579 and work in progress $3,409,447. Equity in tangible capital assets $71,490,793. City of Castlegar 2025 Annual Report, Schedule of Tangible Capital Assets.
City land sales, 2025$5.2M
The Director of Finance & Technology's message lists "Land sales of $5.2 million dollars" among four highlights of the year, alongside $3.7 million of capital investment, a $3.8 million annual surplus and a $7.9 million reserve increase. The Land Sale statutory reserve rose from $388,069 to $5,469,337 over the year and Parkland Acquisition from $389,721 to $460,141. The City also reported expanded "commercial and utility development on lands east of the Columbia River". What was sold is not identified in the annual report.
Whole-city turnover, 2025187 sales, $96.2M
187 market transactions in the City of Castlegar across 2025 — 168 residential, 17 commercial and none classed industrial — with total fair market value of $96,222,726 and $1,150,285 of property transfer tax paid; residential value $84,757,297. BC Ministry of Finance property transfer tax data, municipal monthly file 2025. The City's own report puts the typical assessed value of a single-family home at $526,529, up 1% on 2024, across 2,868 single-family dwellings.
Permissive tax exemptions granted, 2025$290,569 total, $145,398 municipal
The City's 2025 exemption schedule names every recipient and groups them: Community Service Organizations $82,948, Cultural Organizations $70,307, Community Housing Organizations $65,859, Regional Health Board (Interior Health Authority, two parcels) $27,003, Recreation and Not for Profit $16,972, Places of Public Worship $12,631, "Corporation Vetted for Non-Profit Status" (CTN Labor Holding Ltd – Kinnaird Hall) $8,609 and a "City Water Supply/Partnership Agreement" exemption of $6,240 to Zellstoff Celgar Ltd. The largest single line is the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce at $31,080.
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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.
Castlegar's concentration is industrial and it is documented, which is rare at this scale. Two reporting issuers hold the biggest private sites — Mercer International's 400-acre Celgar mill and Interfor's Castlegar sawmill, both on Arrow Lakes Drive — a fourth-generation family company holds the sawmill at Thrums and a new 100,000 sq ft mass-timber plant in the city, and two Crown-owned corporations jointly hold 450 MW of generation on the rivers either side of town. The City holds 10.8% of the titled area plus the regional airport. Private owners hold 78.3% by area across 2,018 parcels, and no private residential or commercial holding of any size is documented anywhere in public. Around the city the forest is Crown land under licence: 112 active harvest authorities over 11,896 ha within about 25 km, none of it owned.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Mercer International Inc. Mercer owns the Celgar mill and its underlying property on a 400-acre site. The striking disclosure is what it does not own: "Other than the renewable forest licenses of our Peace River mill, we do not own any timberlands or have any material long-term governmental timber concessions." Celgar's fibre comes from about 30 chip suppliers in Canada and the United States on one-year contracts, pulp-log supply agreements of one month to one year terminable on seven days' notice, and bids on British Columbia timber sales. The province's tenure register does show two small active Forestry Licences to Cut in the name of Mercer Celgar Pulp Ltd. covering 159 ha, both carrying expiry dates in 2017. The City's own exemption schedule names the operating entity Zellstoff Celgar Ltd.; Mercer's Exhibit 21 names the subsidiary Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership. |
Public company | a 400-acre mill site — and no timberland at allA |
| Interfor Corporation Interfor's 2025 Annual Information Form states it owns three B.C. Interior sawmills and timber tenures with a total allowable annual cut of 1.7 million cubic metres — Forest Licences 976,000 m³ and Tree Farm Licences 718,000 m³ — and that in B.C. it directly employs about 790 people, 244 of them represented by USW Canada under a southern-interior agreement expiring 30 June 2027. The province's tenure layer shows Interfor on forest licence A18969 and Tree Farm Licences 3 and 23 around Castlegar. The AIF is explicit about what tenure is: "In the Province of B.C., the government or 'Crown' owns 94% of the land from which the majority of the timber the Company consumes is harvested." |
Public company | the Castlegar sawmill, 1,675 ha of active harvest authority within 25 km, and a 1.7 million m³ B.C. Interior AACA |
| Kalesnikoff A fourth-generation family company whose own history page dates the business to timber rights taken up China Creek in the 1930s and a sawmill built by 1940, relocated several times within the Castlegar area before settling at Thrums. Three related entities hold tenure on the province's register: Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd. (forest licences A20194 and A30172 — 861 ha of active authority near Castlegar and 1,204 ha near Nelson), Kalesnikoff Timber Holdings Ltd. (BC Timber Sales licences TA1992 and TA2605, 188 ha) and Kalesnikoff Mass Timber Inc. (TA2367, near Grand Forks). The City recorded the grand opening of the $30 million mass-timber prefabrication and modular facility in 2025, and the company's own site announces a third new $34 million mass-timber facility in the West Kootenays. |
Family / private | the sawmill at Thrums, a 100,000 sq ft mass-timber plant in Castlegar, and 1,050 ha of active harvest authority within 25 kmB |
| Columbia Power and Columbia Basin Trust Arrow Lakes Generating Station 185 MW downstream of BC Hydro's Hugh Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia; Brilliant Dam and Generating Station 145 MW on the Kootenay, bought from Cominco (now Teck) for $130 million in 1996; Brilliant Expansion Generating Station 120 MW below the Brilliant Dam, built 2003–2007 for $205 million. Each facility page states the owner structure as Columbia Power 50% and Columbia Basin Trust 50%, with Columbia Power as asset manager and FortisBC as operations and maintenance manager. The 335 MW Waneta Expansion is named on Columbia Power's home page but its facility page 404s and no owner is claimed for it here. |
Government | 450 MW in three generating stations at Castlegar, each held 50/50A |
| City of Castlegar ParcelMap BC's Local Government count. The City owns and operates the West Kootenay Regional Airport, 23 parks including Millennium Park and Ponds, the cemetery and the civic facilities at 460 Columbia Avenue. Its 2025 statements carry land at $14,576,694 of cost within $88.5 million of net tangible capital assets, reserves including Land Sale $5,469,337 and Parkland Acquisition $460,141, and $13.9 million of debt. In 2025 it sold $5.2 million of land and awarded the demolition contract for the Eremenko Building at 310 Columbia Avenue to prepare that site for residential and mixed use. |
Government | 103.7 ha across 106 parcels — 10.8% of the titled area — plus the regional airport and 23 parksA |
| Atco Wood Products Ltd. The holder of the most active harvest authorities around Castlegar on the province's Forest Tenure Harvesting Authority Polygons layer, on forest licences A20193, A20218, A97181 and others in the Selkirk Natural Resource District. A licence to harvest Crown timber, not ownership of land. Many records carry expiry dates already past although the register's life-cycle status is ACTIVE, so this is the register's active set rather than a current cut entitlement. |
Private company | 3,280 ha across 34 active harvest authorities within about 25 kmA |
| Maywood Fibre Corp The largest single mapped harvest-tenure area near Castlegar, and the same A95640 polygon is the largest near Grand Forks. Both records carry expiry dates in 2018 and 2019 while remaining ACTIVE on the register's life-cycle status, so the area should be read as a mapped licence footprint rather than a live cut right. This research did not open a document establishing who holds the shares of Maywood Fibre Corp. |
Private company | 4,255 ha across two active Forestry Licences to Cut (A95609 and A95640)B |
| Kootenay Society for Community Living, Castlegar & District Community Services Society and Woodland Park Housing Co-Operative The City's 2025 permissive tax-exemption schedule gives community housing its own category and itemises it: Kootenay Society for Community Living on six parcels ($25,525 of total exemption), Castlegar & District Community Services Society on five ($18,309), Woodland Park Housing Co-Operative ($12,313), Habitat for Humanity Southeast BC ($6,686) and Castlegar Villa Society ($3,026). That makes the non-market housing sector, not any private landlord, the most itemised multi-parcel owner in the city's own records. |
Institution | 13 separately exempt community-housing parcels, $65,859 of tax foregone in 2025A |
| Interior Health Authority The City's exemption schedule carries Interior Health Authority as its own "Regional Health Board" category, with exemptions of $8,014 and $18,989 on two parcels. Civic addresses are not given in the Castlegar schedule. |
Government | two exempt parcels, $27,003 of tax foregone in 2025A |
| Private owners The highest private share of titled land of the three Kootenay cities in this batch, and the shallowest concentration: the largest single private parcel inside Castlegar is 29.5 ha and the next 29.1 ha. No document opened names the owner of any privately held residential or commercial property in the city. ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric, September 2026; derived aggregate only, no rows reproduced. |
Private company | 754.8 ha across 2,018 parcels — 78.3% of the titled areaA |
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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.
CMHC and Statistics Canada do not publish a housing-starts series for Castlegar, so the City's own counts are the record: 100 building permits issued in 2025 with a construction value of $34,763,440, 744 business licences, and the annual report noting "building permit values rising to $33.8 million year-to-date nearly double from 2024 and significant increases in multi-family construction". The stock is 2,868 single-family dwellings with a typical assessed value of $526,529. Non-market supply runs through partnerships the City names: BC Housing, Lu'ma Development, Castlegar Rota Villa Society and Castlegar Community Services. Who builds the market housing is answerable only from a licence register, because British Columbia publishes no homes-per-builder table. A By-City search for Castlegar returns 30 licences in good standing, 29 held by companies or numbered companies and one by a named individual, who is not listed here.
| Name | Type | Licence status |
|---|---|---|
| Hil-Tech Contracting Limited The lowest licence number among the 30 Castlegar licences in good standing, so the longest-standing of the group. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 23874, in good standingA |
| Pettapiece Homes & Developments BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 27621, in good standingA |
| Inukshuk Developments Inc. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 31595, in good standingA |
| Radec Group Inc. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 31745, in good standingA |
| Klimat Contracting Ltd. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 38423, in good standingA |
| Hybreed Contracting Ltd. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 41100, in good standingA |
| Copper Valley Custom Homes Ltd. BC Housing Licence Registry, By-City search for Castlegar, September 2026. |
Private company | Licence 47477, in good standingA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No REIT reports a Castlegar asset and the City publishes no commercial-property inventory, so the commercial ground is described here by class and by the one schedule that names owners. Business and other assessment is $270,420,700 on the 2026 roll, 12.4% of the base — the largest commercial base of the three Kootenay cities in this batch, consistent with the City's own claim to be "the service centre within British Columbia's West Kootenay Region" with a trade area of 70,000. The City issued 744 business licences in 2025, ran a downtown parking assessment for its Downtown and Uptown growth areas, and the largest single permissive exemption in the city is the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce at $31,080.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| City of Castlegar The only Castlegar landlord whose properties are itemised in public, through its annual report. The City is also the party clearing 310 Columbia Avenue for residential and mixed-use redevelopment and the owner-operator of the West Kootenay Regional Airport. |
Government | 106 parcels, 103.7 ha, the airport and the 310 Columbia Avenue redevelopment siteA |
| Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce On the City's 2025 exemption schedule under Cultural Organizations, ahead of the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society's Doukhobor Village ($25,406) and the BC SPCA ($22,605). The schedule names the organisation and the exemption value; it gives no civic address or parcel identifier. |
Institution | $31,080 of tax foregone in 2025 — the largest single permissive exemption in the cityA |
| FortisBC Energy Inc. Listed on the City's 2025 exemption schedule under Recreation and Not for Profit as "Fortis BC Energy Inc. - Terasen BTW Park". FortisBC is also named in the City's annual report as one of the city's energy employers, and is the operations and maintenance manager of all three Columbia Power generating stations at Castlegar. |
Public company | Terasen BTW Park, $13,258 of tax foregone in 2025A |
| Private commercial owners The class total is public; the owners are not. No document opened names the owner of any privately held commercial building in Castlegar. A title search at $11.06, or a municipal tax certificate at $110.26, is the only route. |
Private company | $270,420,700 of Business and other assessment on the 2026 rollA |
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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 parcels carry Castlegar's $81,944,700 of major-industry assessment, and whether the Celgar mill site lies wholly inside the municipal boundary. Mercer describes the 400-acre site as "near the city of Castlegar"; the province's boundary layer places the geocoded Arrow Lakes Drive point inside the City; but the largest single private parcel ParcelMap BC records inside Castlegar is 29.5 ha, so a 162-hectare site would have to be several parcels or straddle the line. BC Assessment's values may not be reused commercially and no municipal document assigns the class to a parcel.
- How many people the Celgar mill and the Interfor Castlegar sawmill employ. Mercer's 10-K gives no per-mill headcount; Interfor's Annual Information Form gives about 790 people across all of British Columbia with 244 under a USW Canada southern-interior agreement, not a Castlegar figure. Neither discloses per-mill rated capacity for Castlegar — only 750 million board feet across the three B.C. Interior mills.
- Who holds the shares of Maywood Fibre Corp, whose two Forestry Licences to Cut are the largest mapped tenure polygons near both Castlegar and Grand Forks. No ownership document was opened.
- What land the City sold for $5.2 million in 2025, and what it paid for 310 Columbia Avenue. The annual report reports the proceeds and the reserve movement but identifies neither property.
- The owner of the 335 MW Waneta Expansion Generating Station. Columbia Power names the facility on its home page but its facility page 404s, and no other document opened states current ownership, so the record makes no claim.
- Whether any Castlegar officeholder holds property relevant to their office. Nothing is recorded because nothing was found: no conflict-of-interest or financial-disclosure registry entry was opened and the 2025 Annual Report names no member of Council in connection with a property holding.
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Sources
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- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
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- Forest Tenure Harvesting Authority Polygons (FTEN_HARVEST_AUTH_POLY_SVW) — records with LIFE_CYCLE_STATUS_CODE 'ACTIVE' within about 25 km of the municipal bounding box, Selkirk Natural Resource District, extracted September 2026 — Province of British Columbia (BC Data Catalogue / openmaps WFS) · openA
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- Brilliant Expansion Generating Station — facility page (120 MW, built 2003–2007, $205 million) — Columbia Power · openA
- Campuses — Selkirk College (main campus 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar; Tenth Street and Silver King campuses, Nelson) — Selkirk College · openB
- Our History — An 80 Year Legacy (founding, China Creek timber rights, the Thrums sawmill, four generations of family management) — Kalesnikoff · openA
- Operations & Locations, and the Castlegar Division page — 2705 Arrow Lakes Drive, Castlegar, BC V1N 4H1, with live operations postings, September 2026 — Interfor Corporation · openA
- BC Address Geocoder — Arrow Lakes Dr, Castlegar; used with an ABMS Municipalities INTERSECTS query that places that point inside the City of Castlegar and the Regional District of Central Kootenay — Province of British Columbia · openA