Gatineau, Quebec
Gatineau is the one Canadian city where the biggest landlord is the federal government and you can show it from two independent public files: Public Services and Procurement Canada discloses 40 properties and 973,098 m² of floor area on the Quebec side of the river, and MAMH's statutory Sommaire of the municipal roll records $2.40 billion of value over 143 units exempt under the paragraph reserved for the Crown in right of Canada — the largest exempt class in the city, ahead of the municipality's own — while the Crown only lease-purchases the two towers at 30 Victoria and 22 Eddy.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 24 sources · 8 tier A · prepared 2026-10-10
Ownership in Quebec is public and free, but only one property at a time, and in Gatineau the free lookup is behind a CAPTCHA. The city runs an online roll at www3.gatineau.ca/servicesenligne/evaluation with address, cadastre and matricule searches, and its own page points to it as "Consulter le rôle d'évaluation – De 2024 à 2026"; the search form requires a "code de sécurité" from a CaptchaImage, valid five minutes, so a human can read any owner and a script cannot. The provincial bulk file covers all 103,287 Gatineau assessment units (the Sommaire count) with land value, building value, lot area, storeys, year built, dwellings and the statutory paragraph behind any tax exemption, but with the owner's name and mailing address cut out and re-identification expressly forbidden. A sale price appears only in the Registre foncier du Québec, at 1,50 $ per document — although Gatineau's own financial statements disclose transfer duties, which is how the sale of Les Promenades Gatineau became public.
- donneesquebec.ca / open.canada.ca — “Les renseignements concernant les cadastres, noms des propriétaires et leurs adresses postales sont caviardés. Afin d'obtenir ces informations, vous pouvez consulter une unité d'évaluation particulière sur le site Web de la municipalité ou au bureau du greffier. Il est interdit de réidentifier les renseignements personnels caviardés (noms et adresses des propriétaires).”
- centris.ca — ““Screen scraping,” “data mining” or any other activity, whether automated or not, intended, directly or indirectly, to collect, store, copy, reproduce, reorganize or manipulate the Content is also prohibited and constitutes a violation of copyright and these Terms.”
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casino du Lac-Leamy 1-5 boulevard du Casino, Gatineau |
Mixed use | Not established the licence forbids naming the owner Loto-Québec's casino at 1 boulevard du Casino. Loto-Québec's own page states that its subsidiary “Casiloc est responsable de l'ensemble des projets de construction, d'acquisition de mobilier et d'équipement ainsi que de location de lieux pour les casinos du Québec” — responsibility for premises, not a statement of title — so no owner is named. The earlier build ranked it the city's most valuable assessment unit ($387,321,000, fully taxable) from the bulk roll XML on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling; MAMH publishes no other per-unit file for Gatineau, so that value is no longer claimed. |
Not established | —A |
| Place du Portage III and IV 11 rue Laurier / 13 boulevard de Maisonneuve and 140 promenade du Portage, Gatineau 181,923 m² of floor area (DFRP, Crown Owned) |
Office | Government of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada as custodian) The Directory of Federal Real Property records one property, “Place du Portage III & IV, Laurier Garage Site”, at “11 Laurier Street and 140 Promenade du Portage”, custodian PSPC, interest Crown Owned, 181,923 m² of floor area — PSPC's largest holding in Gatineau. The earlier build also quoted both roll units' values and their art. 204(1.1°) exemption from the bulk roll XML on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling; those per-unit figures are no longer claimed. |
Government | —A |
| Les Terrasses de la Chaudière 15-25 rue Eddy, Gatineau (site: Eddy Street, promenade du Portage, Wellington) 142,115 m² of floor area (DFRP, Crown Owned) |
Office | Government of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada as custodian) DFRP records "Les Terrasses de la Chaudière Site" on Eddy Street / Promenade du Portage / Wellington, custodian PSPC, interest Crown Owned, 142,115 m² of floor area. The per-unit roll values and exemption paragraph the earlier build quoted came from the bulk roll XML on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling and are no longer claimed. |
Government | —A |
| Canadian Museum of History 100 rue Laurier, Gatineau 95,815 m² of floor area (DFRP) |
Institutional | Government of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada as custodian) DFRP records "GC Land Site - Canadian Museum of History" at 100 Laurier Street, custodian PSPC, interest Crown Owned, 95,815 m² of floor area. The earlier build quoted its roll value and exemption from the bulk roll XML on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling; those per-unit figures are no longer claimed. |
Government | —A |
| Library and Archives Canada Preservation Campus 625-635 boulevard du Carrefour, Gatineau 39,298 m² of floor area (DFRP) |
Institutional | Government of Canada (Library and Archives of Canada as custodian) DFRP lists "Preservation Campus" at "625 & 635 du Carrefour Boulevard, Gatineau", custodian Library and Archives of Canada, interest Crown Owned, 39,298 m²; LAC holds three Gatineau properties totalling 52,509 m², including a Collection Storage Facility at 680 boulevard des Affaires. The per-unit roll values the earlier build quoted are no longer claimed (they came from a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling). |
Government | —A |
| 22 rue Eddy 22 rue Eddy / 25 rue Saint-Jacques, Gatineau 44,738 m² of floor area (DFRP) |
Office | Not established the source would not open The Crown occupying without owning. DFRP records PSPC's interest in "22 Eddy Street Site" as Lease Purchase, 44,738 m²; the neighbouring 30 rue Victoria is recorded the same way, PSPC Lease Purchase, 45,515 m². A lease-purchase means title stays with a private holder until the purchase completes, and no open file opened here names that holder. The earlier build's roll evidence (both towers fully taxable, with values and storeys) came from a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling and is no longer claimed. |
Not established | —A |
| Les Promenades Gatineau 1076-1100 boulevard Maloney Ouest / 85 chemin de la Savane, Gatineau 840,000 sq ft (Westcliff) |
Retail | Promenades Gatineau Holding Le Droit, 3 June 2025, on the City's 2024 financial statements: “Cette transaction enregistrée à la toute fin de l'année 2024 qui a fait passer le centre commercial des mains d'Oxford Properties à la société par actions Promenades Gatineau Holding compte à elle seule pour 12 millions de dollars en droits de mutation encaissés par la Ville.” Westcliff has managed it since 1 June 2023 and gives 840,000 sq ft and 150 premises. |
Private company | CAD not stated; $12,000,000 of transfer duties to the City 2024-12 Le Droit reports the sale generated $12M in droits de mutation for Gatineau. No price is stated in any document opened, so none is claimed here. A |
| Les Galeries de Hull 320-350 boulevard Saint-Joseph, Gatineau 273,799 sq ft (Cominar) |
Retail | Fonds de placement immobilier Cominar Cominar's own portfolio page lists Les Galeries de Hull among its six remaining shopping centres at 320 boulevard St-Joseph, Gatineau, 273,799 sq ft — its only Outaouais property. The earlier build added that the roll had written the building down to $1,000 (total $54,512,800); that came from the bulk roll XML on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling and is no longer claimed. |
REIT | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Re-sourced 2026-10-10 from MAMH's quarterly roll (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM81017.xml); the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. No such file exists for Gatineau, however: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Gatineau: its quarterly index (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/indexRole.csv) lists no municipality with geographic code 81xxx and www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM81017.xml returns 404, so the RM<code>.xml route the brief prescribes does not exist here. The aggregate figures below therefore rest on MAMH's statutory Sommaire du rôle workbook for fiscal 2026 (row 81017: roll deposited 2023-10-18, compiled 2025-09-04, facteur comparatif 1.02), read on MAMH's own content host. Every per-parcel value the earlier build read from the bulk roll XML on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling has been removed. The federal figures come from the Directory of Federal Real Property open-data file, as of its November 2025 certification.
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.
In land rather than floor area, Gatineau's single largest owner is the National Capital Commission, and the gap is not close: 2,514.6 hectares in 177 separate properties, almost all of it undeveloped. MAMH's Sommaire shows the federal footprint from the roll's side: 143 units and 2,052.8 ha exempt as the Crown in right of Canada's, against 1,924 units and 2,729.1 ha exempt as the City's own, out of 31,563 ha on the roll.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| National Capital Commission Summed from the Directory of Federal Real Property for properties whose parcel municipality is Gatineau. Largest single holdings: Chelsea Natural Lands 392.7 ha, Hull Natural Lands 325.6 ha, Aylmer Natural Lands 250.5 ha and 246.2 ha, Ottawa River Shoreline on boulevard Lucerne 89.1 ha, Gatineau Park on the Gatineau Parkway 82.2 ha, Leamy Lake Park 77.9 ha and 59.1 ha. |
Government | 2,514.6 ha across 177 propertiesA |
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.
Gatineau's housebuilding is dominated by locally controlled private developers, and 2025 was a collapse: CMHC counted 1,400 starts against 3,140 the year before. The City has responded with an interventionist housing committee — its comité-choc en logement approved 1,300 units in its first mandate and has now set a target of 1,500 non-market dwellings in three years, backed by $20M in the 2026 budget. No league table of Quebec builders by units exists, so the figures below are each company's own or a named outlet's.
| Name | Type | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Brigil Portail Constructo: "Avec les projets Horizon I et II, le promoteur et constructeur Brigil enrichit l'offre de logement de son développement de l'ouest de Gatineau" — six buildings aimed at baby-boomers inside Le Plateau, a 13-phase community next to Gatineau Park. Radio-Canada, 2025: Gatineau approved 280 dwellings in the west after "Brigil a retiré une tour de 317 logements" from a Plateau Symmes project originally planned at nearly 600. Brigil's own site is behind a Cloudflare challenge, so its lifetime unit count is not claimed here; Radio-Canada identifies Gilles Desjardins as "le grand patron de Brigil". |
Family / private | 300+ units (Horizon I and II); 280 approved at Plateau SymmesA |
| Devcore Devcore's own site: "Bâtir ensemble / Depuis 20 ans", describing itself as a developer of rental apartment communities across Outaouais, Gatineau and Ottawa. No cumulative unit count is published on any page that opened. |
Private company | 20 years building rental housing in the OutaouaisA |
| Ville de Gatineau — comité-choc en logement Radio-Canada, March 2026: the committee, created in March 2022, "a déjà approuvé la construction de 1300 unités au cours de son premier mandat" and has set a new target of 1,500 non-market dwellings over three years, with a record $20M provided in the City's 2026 budget. A separate Radio-Canada report puts $21.9M in the 2026 budget for affordable housing. Included because in Gatineau the municipality is itself a material driver of new supply. |
Government | 1,300 units approved; 1,500 non-market dwellings targetedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The largest commercial landlord in Gatineau is not a company. PSPC holds 973,098 m² of floor area in the city across 40 properties, and DFRP's interest types show which of the downtown towers it owns outright and which it only leases. Private retail ownership turned over twice in three years: Les Promenades Gatineau passed from Oxford Properties to Promenades Gatineau Holding at the end of 2024, with Westcliff running it since June 2023.
| Name | Type | Gatineau floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Government of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada) Tabulated from the Directory of Federal Real Property. Its largest Gatineau holdings are Place du Portage III & IV (181,923 m², Crown Owned), Les Terrasses de la Chaudière (142,115 m², Crown Owned), the Canadian Museum of History land site (95,815 m², Crown Owned), the National Printing Bureau site at 45-133 boulevard Sacré-Coeur (75,009 m², Crown Owned) and Place du Portage I & II (69,625 m², Crown Owned); 30 Victoria (45,515 m²) and 22 Eddy (44,738 m²) are Lease Purchase, and Place Vincent Massey at 351 boulevard Saint-Joseph (38,592 m²) and Place de la Cité at 550 boulevard de la Cité (30,667 m²) are Lease or Licence. |
Government | 973,098 m² across 40 propertiesA |
| Westcliff (Groupe de Sociétés Westcliff) Westcliff's own property page for Les Promenades Gatineau gives 840,000 sq ft and 150 premises at 1100 boulevard Maloney Ouest, and names its own leasing staff alongside the centre's general manager. Westcliff manages and leases it; Le Droit names Promenades Gatineau Holding as the entity that took title at the end of 2024. |
Family / private | 840,000 sq ft, 150 premisesA |
| Fonds de placement immobilier Cominar Cominar's own portfolio page lists 320 boulevard St-Joseph, Gatineau (Les Galeries de Hull) at 273,799 sq ft — its only Outaouais property, out of six shopping centres and 4M sq ft in total. |
REIT | 273,799 sq ftA |
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 Casino du Lac-Leamy. Loto-Québec's own page states that its subsidiary Casiloc handles construction, equipment and premises for Quebec's casinos, but does not say Casiloc holds title; the earlier build's observation that the roll taxes the unit in full (rather than exempting it as an immovable of the Quebec State) came from a disallowed host and could not be re-read.
- Who owns 22 rue Eddy, 30 rue Victoria, Place Vincent-Massey (349-351 boulevard Saint-Joseph) and Place de la Cité. DFRP records the Crown's interest in each as Lease Purchase or Lease or Licence, so none is Crown-owned — but no open file opened here names the holder, and Gatineau's free lookup is CAPTCHA-gated.
- Whether PSPC now owns 455 boulevard de la Carrière outright. DFRP records it as Crown Owned (36,871 m²); the earlier build reported the roll taxing it in full, but that came from a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling and could not be re-read from an allowed source.
- The identity of the arena at 500-520 boulevard de la Cité and its exemption paragraph: the earlier build read both from the bulk roll XML on a disallowed host, and MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Gatineau to re-read them.
- Brigil's lifetime unit count. brigil.com answers HTTP 403 to automation; search results cite both 12,500 and 14,000 units since 1985, and neither could be read on the company's own site.
- The price paid for Les Promenades Gatineau. Only the transfer duty is public ($12M to the City, per Le Droit); the consideration is in the Registre foncier at 1,50 $ per document.
- Owner names are redacted from the provincial bulk roll and the licence forbids re-identifying them, so no lawful bulk owner join exists in Quebec.
- Every per-unit roll value (land, buildings, previous roll, storeys, year built, exemption paragraph, top-10/top-100 shares) the earlier build took from RL81017_2026.xml. That file is hosted only on donneesouvertes.affmunqc.net, whose robots.txt is "User-agent: * Disallow: /"; MAMH's own quarterly index has no Gatineau file (RM81017.xml is 404), so these values were dropped rather than re-sourced. Aggregates were re-sourced from MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026.
- Re-sourced 2026-10-10 from MAMH's quarterly roll (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM81017.xml); the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. Note: no such file exists for Gatineau (404; code 81017 absent from indexRole.csv), so the re-sourcing rests on the Sommaire du rôle 2026 instead. Differences: total value and unit count unchanged ($66,833,877,100; 103,287 units); exempt share 12.5% ($8,348,283,600) → 11.98% ($8,003,874,560); highest-parcel figure and the 350 rue Laurier landowner row dropped.
Sources
- Quebec property assessment roll (Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec) — the 1,140 municipal XML files, owner names and mailing addresses redacted — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) / Données Québec · openA
- Quebec property assessment roll — English dataset record stating the redaction and the re-identification ban — Government and Municipalities of Québec via Open Government Portal · openA
- Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière, exercice 2026 — MAMH's per-municipality workbook (200001 units, 200011-200019 land/building/total, taxable and non-taxable value, 600004-600099 non-taxable value by art. 204 paragraph); Gatineau row 81017, deposited 2023-10-18, facteur comparatif 1.02 — MAMH — Données statistiques sur l'évaluation foncière · openA
- Répertoire des renseignements prescrits du rôle d'évaluation foncière, version 2.5 — the field dictionary for RL0101 to RL0507 — MAMH via Données Québec · openA
- Sommaire — Tarification des produits et services du registre foncier et du cadastre, in force 1 April 2026 ("Documents … Par document 1,50 $", updated 25 March 2026) — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF) · openA
- Loi sur la fiscalité municipale (chapitre F-2.1), art. 204 — the exemption paragraphs the roll cites in RL0504 (1° l'État or Société québécoise des infrastructures; 1.1° the Crown in right of Canada; 3° a local municipality; 5° a mandatary of a municipality, MRC or Communauté; 10° a body recognised under s. 243.3; 13° a school service centre, CEGEP or university-level establishment; 14°a Santé Québec or a health-network establishment) — Légis Québec / Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Unités d'évaluation foncière — used only as the published CUBF code→label dictionary (CODE_UTILISATION / LIBELLE_UTILISATION) — Ville de Montréal (Données Montréal) · openA
- Terms of use and privacy policy — Centris (Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) · openA
- Qui sommes-nous — secteurs d'affaires et filiales ("Casiloc est responsable de l'ensemble des projets de construction, d'acquisition de mobilier et d'équipement ainsi que de location de lieux pour les casinos du Québec"; "Lotim est l'unique propriétaire de l'édifice qui abrite le siège social") — Loto-Québec · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — open data XML (custodian, address, primary use, interest type, floor area, land area), tabulated for Gatineau — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- La vente des Promenades Gatineau dope les surplus de la Ville (names Oxford Properties and Promenades Gatineau Holding and the $12M transfer duty) — Le Droit · openA
- Portefeuille immobilier — Commercial, listing 320 boulevard St-Joseph, Gatineau at 273,799 sq ft — Fonds de placement immobilier Cominar · openA
- Le projet horizon offrira plus de 300 nouvelles unités à Gatineau — Portail Constructo · openA
- Devcore — "Bâtir ensemble / Depuis 20 ans" — Devcore · openA
- La Ville de Gatineau veut construire 1500 logements hors marché d'ici 2029 (1,300 units approved since 2022; $20M in the 2026 budget) — Radio-Canada · openA
- Baisse record du nombre de mises en chantier à Gatineau en 2025 — CMHC housing-starts table, 2020 to 2025 — Radio-Canada (data: Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement) · openA
- Gatineau approuve 280 logements dans l'ouest malgré des désaccords sur la mobilité (Brigil withdrew a 317-unit tower from a ~600-unit project) — Radio-Canada · openA
- Les Promenades Gatineau s'ajoutent au portefeuille de Westcliff (management from 1 June 2023; 840,000 sq ft, 145 retailers, built 1978, renovated 2014) — Westcliff · openA
- Les Promenades Gatineau — property page (840,000 pi ca, 1100 bd Maloney Ouest, 150 locaux) — Westcliff · openA
- Évaluation foncière — "Consulter le rôle d'évaluation – De 2024 à 2026"; roll filed 18 October 2023 — Ville de Gatineau · openA
- Rôle d'évaluation — recherche par adresse (CAPTCHA-gated free owner lookup) — Ville de Gatineau · blockedA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — service page — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Charte des codes du Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière 2026 — names each code (e.g. 600004-600006 "Couronne du chef du Canada … par. 1.1", 600049-600051 "par. 3o") — MAMH · openA
- Index de la mise à jour trimestrielle des rôles d'évaluation foncière — 1,036 municipal files, none with geographic code 81xxx (no Gatineau file) — MAMH · openA