Dawson Creek, British Columbia
Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway is a Peace Country oil-and-gas and farm town whose two biggest buildings are owned by the two parties you can actually name: Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, whose 10-K lists a Dawson Creek siding mill among 'our principal manufacturing facilities, all of which we own', and the City itself, which owns the Ovintiv Events Centre outright and says so in an audit note while a Philadelphia facility manager runs it. The city permitted exactly one new residential unit in 2025, and its farm economy is visible in the transfer-tax file: 98 of the 284 sales in rural Dawson Creek were farm sales.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 18 sources · 8 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Ownership in Dawson Creek is public but priced. 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 current at 1 April 2026 prices a title search at $11.06. There is no bulk owner product and no price-paid file; the province publishes only monthly counts and aggregate fair market value by municipality. The free half of the system is the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filings required from 30 November 2020, search of the registry open since 30 April 2021, the deadline for pre-existing interests 30 November 2022 — which names the individuals behind corporations, trusts and partnerships holding BC land; a search under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule. It is used here to establish which entity holds an asset, never as a source of names to publish. Dawson Creek appears on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table at $97.79 — the cheapest of the five northern and Island towns checked here. The City publishes no list of its largest taxpayers, but its annual report does publish a permissive tax exemption schedule under the heading 'City Properties Leased', which is a statement of what the City owns and who occupies it, and its audited statements name the manager of the arena it owns. Beyond that, nothing building-level is published: BC Assessment's site forbids commercial use of its values, and the federal register is the only free owner register that reaches this city at all.
- 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.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana-Pacific Dawson Creek mill 8243 221 Road 300 million sq ft of annual siding capacity, 3/8-inch basis |
Industrial | Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Louisiana-Pacific's 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 17 February 2026, introduces its properties table with the words "our principal manufacturing facilities, all of which we own", and lists "Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada" in the siding column at 300 million square feet of annual capacity on a 3/8-inch basis. Footnote 1 states the Dawson Creek plant "[is] used in the operations of our Siding segment but can also produce commodity OSB when market conditions warrant". The BC geocoder places 8243 221 Road inside the City of Dawson Creek's legal boundary. Major industry on the 2026 city roll is assessed at $19,975,000. No price is stated and none is recorded. |
Public company | —A |
| Ovintiv Events Centre, in the South Peace Community Multiplex #1 – 300 Highway 2 |
Civic | City of Dawson Creek The City's audited 2025 financial statements say it plainly: "The City of Dawson Creek as the owner of the facility is required to provide funding to Global Spectrum through an annual budget allocation. All revenues and expenditures, profits and losses are the City's responsibility." The management agreement with Global Spectrum Facility Management, LP was renewed in 2016 and runs 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2027 for a fixed fee of $230,050 in 2025; the City's budget allocation is $1,850,000 a year through 2027. Management is not ownership, and this is the rare case where the audit note states which is which. |
Government | —A |
| Dawson Creek Regional Airport Dawson Creek Regional Airport |
Civic | City of Dawson Creek The segment-disclosure note in the City's audited 2025 financial statements states the airport "is owned and operated by the City". The 2025 annual report records the City exploring revenue from a City-owned hangar and a fuel tug, infrastructure improvements at the Airport Terminal, and a Public Works Yard and Airport Hangar Master Plan; four of the City's named staff are airport operators or the airport manager. No land area or floor area is published for it. |
Government | —A |
| Dawson Creek Mall 11000 8th Street |
Retail | Bosa Properties The mall's own site states "Dawson Creek Mall is owned and operated by Bosa Properties, a family-run company, who is committed to community improvements and commercial developments in northern communities", gives the address as 11000 8th Street and names a Bosa Properties property manager and senior manager. Bosa's corporate commercial page claims 5.5 million square feet of commercial space "under management" and 80+ "assets under management" — a management figure, not a statement of what it owns. The same company owns Skeena Mall in Terrace. No price or floor area is published for the Dawson Creek asset. |
Family / private | —A |
| Canada Post Dawson Creek Mechanized Processing Plant 11622 7th Street 1,393.6 sq m on 0.7661 ha |
Industrial | Canada Post The Directory of Federal Real Property records property 63017, custodian Canada Post, interest type Crown Owned: one building of 1,393.6 square metres on 0.7661 hectares at 11622 7th Street, primary use Commercial Retail. It is the only federally owned parcel inside the city limits — every other federal presence in Dawson Creek is a lease. |
Government | —A |
| RCMP Dawson Creek Detachment 1230 102 Avenue 1,245 sq m |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The federal register records property 32617, custodian Royal Canadian Mounted Police, interest type Lease or Licence: one building of 1,245 square metres, land area nil. A "Lease or Licence" row proves the inverse of ownership — Canada occupies a building it does not own — and the landlord is behind the land title register, at $11.06 a search. The same is true of the Public Services and Procurement Canada offices at 12008 8th Street (198 sq m) and 1508 102nd Avenue (323 sq m) and of Farm Credit Canada at 703 103rd Avenue (229 sq m). None of the four landlords is named in any source opened here. |
Not established | —A |
| Dawson Creek & District Stables and Arena Dawson Creek |
Civic | City of Dawson Creek The City's 2025 annual report groups its permissive tax exemptions under headings, and the first is "City Properties Leased" — which makes the list a statement of what the City owns and who occupies it. The Stables and Arena Association is the largest at $153,358.17 of property tax exempted, followed by the Kiwanis Arts Centre Society at $143,934.96, the Dawson Creek Curling Club at $55,379.29 and two South Peace Mile 0 Park Society parcels at $37,045.32 between them. The whole programme, including places of worship and social services on their own land, came to $635,331.23. |
Government | —A |
| Kiwanis Arts Centre Dawson Creek |
Civic | City of Dawson Creek Listed under "City Properties Leased" in the City's 2025 permissive tax exemption schedule, Kiwanis Arts Centre Society at $143,934.96 — the second-largest exemption on a City-owned parcel. The report does not give a civic address or a floor area for it, and no title was searched. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Dawson Creek is a $1.98 billion roll in which houses are 71% of the value and the oil-and-gas service economy shows up as business-and-other rather than as major industry. The province publishes the roll by class and the City publishes its land at historical cost; nobody publishes a parcel-level value that may be reused, because BC Assessment's own terms forbid commercial use of its data. The farm story is in the transfer-tax file rather than the roll: farm land inside the city is assessed at $340,067, while 98 of the 284 market transactions in rural Dawson Creek in 2025 were farm sales.
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.
No open dataset names the owner of a BC parcel, and Dawson Creek publishes no top-taxpayer table, so the holders below are only those a document names. The surrounding Peace River country is privately held farmland rather than Crown forest — the transfer-tax file records 98 farm sales in rural Dawson Creek in 2025 against two inside the city — but who holds that farmland is not published anywhere, and we do not publish a Crown-land share inside a built-up municipality.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| City of Dawson Creek Tangible capital asset schedule, audited 2025 financial statements. The City also holds $353,345 of property for resale, almost all tax-sale property not subject to redemption, and carries an unquantified contingent liability for a construction-waste dump site on 115th Avenue used from the 1960s, for which it says it cannot yet estimate remediation cost. |
Government | $23,745,817 of land at costA |
| Louisiana-Pacific Corporation LP's 10-K for 2025 states it owns all of its principal manufacturing facilities and lists Dawson Creek among them. The filing gives capacity, not acreage, and LP publishes no land area for the site. |
Public company | one owned siding mill, 300M sq ft annual capacityA |
| Canada Post Directory of Federal Real Property, property 63017, interest type Crown Owned. Every other federal row inside the city boundary is a lease. |
Government | 0.7661 ha, the only federal freehold in the cityA |
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.
Dawson Creek is the clearest case in this batch of a housing market that has simply stopped. BC Stats' building permit series records one residential unit permitted in the whole of 2025 and two in 2024, and BC Housing's New Homes Registry suppresses the city's 2024 figures entirely because fewer than five homes were registered. There is no league table and no builder with a published unit count; what is published is a register of who is licensed to build, and fourteen companies carry a Dawson Creek address on it.
| Name | Type | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Fourteen licensed residential builders with Dawson Creek addresses BC Housing's Public Registry of Licensed Residential Builders, filtered to the city, returns 14 licensees in good standing: Arndt Enterprises Inc., Bear Mountain Construction Ltd., C. Chandler Contracting (Celtic Homes) Ltd., Clay Vandewater Construction Ltd., Harper Homes Ltd., Hegge Construction Ltd., Hickory Homes, J. Berg Contracting Ltd., Marion Construction & Excavation Ltd., Northern Legendary Construction Ltd., Rod Arsenault Construction Ltd., Steamboat Developments Corp., Up North Custom Construction Ltd. and one numbered company. The registry gives the licensee's registered address, not where the homes were built, and no unit counts. |
Private company | 14 licences in good standingA |
| New-home registrations, all builders BC Housing's New Homes Registry records single-detached registrations in Dawson Creek of 17 in 2016, 18 in 2017, 25 in 2018, 13 in 2019, 8 in 2020, 14 in 2021 and 6 in 2023, with 2022 and 2024 suppressed because fewer than five homes were registered. Multi-unit registrations are suppressed in every year except 2022 (10), and purpose-built rental registrations are suppressed in all nine years. The dataset is licensed Access Only, so only these stated per-city figures are quoted and no rows are reproduced. |
Private company | suppressed for 2024 — fewer than 5 homesA |
| Residential building permits, all builders BC Stats' Building Permits (BPER) series, residential total units by census subdivision, records one residential unit permitted in Dawson Creek (CSD 5955014) across the twelve months of 2025 and two in 2024, with residential permit value of $1.253 million in 2025 and $1.316 million in 2024. Open Government Licence – British Columbia. |
Private company | 1 unit, $1.25M, 2025A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The business-and-other class is $531.6 million, 27% of the roll — far more than major industry — because Dawson Creek's commercial property is oilfield service yards, highway retail and a mall rather than offices. Only 26 commercial transactions completed in the city in 2025. The City publishes no taxpayer table, so the named commercial landlords here are the three whose ownership a document states.
| Name | Type | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Bosa Properties The mall's own site states it "is owned and operated by Bosa Properties, a family-run company". Bosa's corporate commercial page states 5.5 million square feet of commercial space under management, 80+ assets under management, 1 million square feet in the development pipeline and 450+ commercial tenants — figures for management, which is not the same as freehold, and no Dawson Creek floor area is given. The same company owns Skeena Mall in Terrace. |
Family / private | Dawson Creek Mall; 5.5M sq ft under management group-wideA |
| City of Dawson Creek The City is the landlord behind the Stables and Arena, the Kiwanis Arts Centre, the Curling Club and Mile 0 Park — all listed under "City Properties Leased" in its own permissive exemption schedule — and owns the Ovintiv Events Centre and the regional airport outright. Its land is carried at $23,745,817 of historical cost. |
Government | $23.7M of land at cost; arena, airport, arts centre, curling rink, Mile 0 ParkA |
| Landlords to the federal government (not established) The Directory of Federal Real Property shows Canada leasing four sets of premises in Dawson Creek totalling 1,995 square metres — the RCMP detachment at 1230 102 Avenue (1,245 sq m), Public Services and Procurement Canada offices at 12008 8th Street (198 sq m) and 1508 102nd Avenue (323 sq m), and Farm Credit Canada at 703 103rd Avenue (229 sq m). The register names the tenant, never the landlord, and no source opened here names any of the four. |
Private company | 4 leased federal premises, 1,995 sq mA |
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 owns the four buildings Canada leases in Dawson Creek — the RCMP detachment, two PSPC offices and the Farm Credit Canada office. The federal register names the custodian and the interest type and never the landlord; the answer is in the land title register at $11.06 a title.
- What Dawson Creek's largest taxpayers are. Unlike Campbell River, Cranbrook and Medicine Hat, the City publishes no principal-taxpayer table in its annual report, and its 2025 annual report contains no audited financial statements — those are filed separately, and the statements contain no taxpayer list either.
- Whether the Louisiana-Pacific mill is the single largest rateable property in the city. Major industry is assessed at $19,975,000 in total, so it cannot be much more than that, but BC Assessment's parcel values may not be reused commercially and no roll extract was taken.
- What the City paid for anything. Its land rose from $21,910,389 to $23,745,817 of cost during 2025, implying $543,165 of additions plus a $1,292,263 reallocation, but no parcel, address or price is published.
- Who holds the farmland around Dawson Creek. 98 of 284 market transactions in rural Dawson Creek in 2025 were farm sales, and the province publishes neither the parties nor the parcels.
- 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 — in Dawson Creek the corporate-transaction count was suppressed in 9 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, and nothing from LOTR is published here.
Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026, and Tax Certificates Online participating-municipality table — 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
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full open-data extract (dfrp-rbif.zip) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP), WFS — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- BC Address Geocoder — addresses.json — GeoBC / Province of British Columbia · openA
- Building Permits (BPER) — Residential Total Units and Residential Value, monthly, by census subdivision — BC Stats / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- New Homes Registry (2016-2024) — new home registrations by community and home type — BC Housing / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Public Registry of Licensed Residential Builders — licence search by city — BC Housing, Licensing and Consumer Services · openA
- Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, Item 2 Properties — Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (SEC EDGAR, CIK 0000060519) · openA
- Consolidated Financial Statements, Year Ended December 31, 2025 (audited) — The Corporation of the City of Dawson Creek · openA
- About — Dawson Creek Mall — Bosa Properties · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — Dawson Creek rows (properties 63017, 32617, 14487, 14488, 56402) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- 2025 Annual Report, including the Permissive Tax Exemptions schedule and the Statement of Financial Information — City of Dawson Creek · openA
- Commercial — portfolio under management — Bosa Properties · openA