Merritt, British Columbia
Merritt is a 2,599-hectare forestry and ranching town whose $1.75 billion roll carries $16.2 million of major industry, and the most consequential thing happening to its ownership is a deliberate reversal: after the November 2021 Coldwater and Nicola flood the City is buying high-risk floodplain property back out of private hands, with 22 affected properties, 90% of offers made and 80% accepted by mid-2026. The nine reserves around the town cover 7,624 hectares against the city's 2,599.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 17 sources · 6 tier A · 2 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
British Columbia's land title register is open to anyone but priced per search: $11.06 for a search under section 377 of the Land Title Act on the LTSA Customer Fee Listing current at 1 April 2026, with no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. The Land Owner Transparency Registry is the free half: since 30 November 2020 corporations, trusts and partnerships registering an interest in BC land must name the individuals behind them, search opened 30 April 2021, and a search of the publicly accessible part is priced NIL. A municipal tax certificate for Merritt through LTSA's Tax Certificates Online is $125.26. Merritt publishes no table of its largest owners, but it does something better for a town this size: its notices of disposition under sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter give the PID, the full legal description, the consideration and the counterparty for each parcel it sells or leases, and its annual report lists every permissive exemption by organisation to the cent.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$11.06 — "For a search under section 377 or a copy of the search results, or both", listed as "Title Search" on the LTSA Customer Fee Listing 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 municipal tax certificate through LTSA's Tax Certificates Online is $125.26 for "Merritt, City".
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldwater Land Acquisition Program — the floodplain buy-back High-risk flood areas along the Coldwater River, Merritt 22 project-affected properties |
Land | City of Merritt The clearest ownership event in the city. The City's 2025 Annual Report: "In late 2025, the City began issuing voluntary purchase offers to property owners in high-risk flood areas. This program is an important step in creating space for setback dikes and reducing long-term flood risk." The Flood Mitigation Department's Q2 2026 council update records that Keystone Appraisals "created the Land Acquisition Plan to support the City of Merritt's broader Flood Mitigation Plan", that valuation work is 100% complete, 90% of offers made and 80% accepted across 22 project-affected properties, and that "initial property purchases also clos[ed] during the quarter". |
Government | —A |
| Merritt Municipal Airport and the Airport Road lands Lot 1 Airport Road — PID 003-084-141, Lot A District Lot 121 and of Sections 23 and 24 Township 91 Kamloops Division Yale District Plan 33801 except Plans 37919, KAP70265, KAP77831 and KAP92967 |
Land | City of Merritt The City's notice "pursuant to sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter" of 4 December 2025 states its intention "to dispose, by way of lease, of Lot 1 Airport Road", giving the PID and the full legal description, to RMT Construction, which "intends to build an airport hanger on the land", at $20,254 annually for the initial term. Only a municipality disposing of its own land gives that notice, so the airport land is the City's. The same land carries the City's post-flood housing: its 2025 accomplishments include "Completed the Move of 28 Mobile Homes to the Airport, and the Sale of 2 Mobile Homes", and a 2-lot industrial subdivision at 3998 Airport Rd was completed in 2025. |
Government | CAD $20,254 a year in rent 2025-12 Not a purchase: the City's notice of 4 December 2025 of its intention to dispose by way of lease, 5-year initial term with renewals in 5-year increments to a total of 25 years. A |
| Aspen Planers Merritt sawmill Merritt, British Columbia (two Nicola Valley sites) |
Industrial | Aspen Planers Ltd. "Aspen Planers is the last sawmilling company in Merritt" and the town's major-industry assessment is $16,160,700 on the 2026 roll. Aspen Planers' own release of 31 May 2019 describes it as "a family-owned business that has operated for more than 70 years" and "the major employer in this area". The Merritt Herald of 11 January 2023 reports it "owned by Surrey based AP Group", running two Merritt sites, closed since December 2022 for want of cutting permits, 150 employees affected. An MLA's open letter of 28 October 2025 states "200 people in Merritt are now out of work as Aspen Planers shutters its mill". No document opened names the registered owner of the site. |
Family / private | —B |
| Merritt Data Centre 3998 Airport Road |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it The one large new industrial use in the town, and the City records it twice: "Merritt Data Center" among its 2025 development, construction and inspection projects, and "3998 Airport Rd – Data Centre" among the development permits in progress, alongside the completed "2-lot Industrial – 3998 Airport Rd (Airport Area)" subdivision. 3998 Airport Road geocodes inside the legal city boundary. The City names the project and never the proponent or the owner, and no other document opened names either. |
Not established | —A |
| Lot 10 of Block 6 Plan KAP1219 — a riverbank parcel sold by the City PID 001-752-791, Lot 10 of Block 6 Plan KAP1219 DL 125 LD 25 |
Land | City of Merritt (selling) A notice "pursuant to sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter" of the City's intention to dispose of PID 001-752-791 "in the form of sale in fee simple", with the property "not available for public acquisition" and a right of way to be registered in the City's favour along the river bank. "The proposed consideration to be received for the land is $5,136.16. Due to the encroachment on the property by the Coldwater River rendering a large portion of the parcel unusable for residential purposes, and the intention to provide a statutory right of way, this is believed to reflect fair market value." The purchasers named in the notice are private individuals and are not named here. |
Government | CAD $5,136.16 2026 Not a purchase: the City's notice of 4 December 2025 of intention to dispose by lease, a 5-year initial term with renewals in 5-year increments to a total of 25 years. A |
| Merritt Golf & Country Club Merritt, British Columbia |
Institutional | Merritt Golf & Country Club The largest permissive tax exemption in the city: $14,689.92 of the $85,248.41 the City forgoes across 27 organisations in 2025, 17.2% of the total, and more than any church, hall or health charity on the list. The City's annual report publishes the exemption table by organisation to the cent and gives no addresses, folios or legal descriptions, so the extent of the holding is not established. In a town whose golf course is its single biggest exempted property, the shape of the local tax base is visible in the list itself. |
Institution | —A |
| NVIT student housing and daycare 4155 Belshaw Street |
Institutional | Nicola Valley Institute of Technology The City's 2025 development-permit record lists "4155 Belshaw – NVIT Student Housing and Daycare", and its building-permit statistics count 15 units created under "NVIT STUDENT HOUSING" — the second largest source of new dwellings in Merritt in 2025 after a 6-unit apartment addition, against 15 units removed. 4155 Belshaw Street geocodes inside the city boundary. The City identifies the development as the Institute's; it does not publish a registered owner, so the entity here rests on the City's own naming of the project and is tiered accordingly. |
Institution | —B |
| Merritt Post Office and RCMP Detachment 2040 Voght Street and 2999 Voght Street 0.84 ha across two parcels |
Civic | His Majesty the King in right of Canada The whole federal footprint in Merritt, and unusually for a town this size both parcels are owned rather than leased. The Directory of Federal Real Property records the Merritt Post Office at 2040 Voght St, custodian Canada Post, Crown Owned, 0.1115 ha with one building of 469.6 sq m; and the Merritt Detachment Site at 2999 Voght St, custodian RCMP, Crown Owned, 0.7240 ha with one building of 1,023 sq m. Both coordinates fall inside the legal city boundary. The City's own 2025 development-permit list independently carries "2040 Voght St – Canada Post", which is the register and the municipality agreeing on the same parcel. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Merritt's roll is $1.75 billion, 77.6% of it residential, with $313.3 million of business and other, $28.5 million of light industry and $16.2 million of major industry — the only city in this batch with a major-industry class and a farm class at the same time. It is also the only one spending more on flood mitigation than its whole roll would raise in a decade: $82.67 million of completed response, recovery and mitigation work, $81.9 million funded and in progress and $46.1 million unfunded. ParcelMap BC's public WFS would not answer, so no parcel count is published here.
Total assessed value, 2026 roll$1.75B
$1,751,704,683 for general municipal purposes on the 2026 roll: residential $1,359,796,612, business and other $313,339,700, utilities $31,988,000, light industry $28,531,900, major industry $16,160,700, recreation and non-profit $1,416,100, farm $471,669 and supportive housing $2. Managed forest land is nil — in a forestry town, because the timber is Crown land outside the boundary, not private forest inside it. BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Local Government Statistics Schedule 701.
City-owned land, at cost$7,662,166
The land column of Note 6, Tangible Capital Assets, at 31 December 2025, down from $7,690,486 a year earlier after $28,320 of disposals and no additions; land improvements are carried separately at $14,735,515 of cost. Total tangible capital asset cost is $180,915,143 and net carrying amount $127,298,835, against $121,892,690 in 2024. The City acquired $17,085,190 of capital assets in 2025, $9,445,141 in 2024 and $32,999,368 in 2023 — flood reconstruction, not growth. The land line will move in the 2026 statements, because the floodplain purchases began closing in Q2 2026.
Flood mitigation, by funding status$82.67M done, $81.9M funded, $46.1M unfunded
Flood Mitigation Department council update, Q2 2026: completed response, recovery and mitigation projects $82.67M (interim flood support $24.25M, emergency claims $10.5M, insurance $12.28M, recovery DFA projects $19.6M, public works and STUWI(x) $4.29M); funded and in progress $81.9M (Setback Dike 129/130 $60M, Voght Pump Station $4.88M, Fir Ave stabilization $7.5M, Middlesboro diking phase 1 $3.4M, remaining STUWI(x) $1.95M); unfunded $46.1M (Main Street bridge $5–15M, C-EPA Godey $18.6M, Middlesboro phases 2 and 3 $19.9M, Canford pump station $2.6M). The 2025 annual report records "$60 million secured for the Dike 129/130 project".
Reserve land around the city7,624 ha across nine reserves
The province's Indian Reserves and Indian Band Villages administrative boundary layer, queried over a box around Merritt, returns nine reserves: NICOLA MAMEET 1 at 4,580.6 ha, COLDWATER 1 at 1,847.6 ha, PAUL'S BASIN 2 at 652.9 ha, ZOHT 4 at 202.2 ha, JOEYASKA 2 at 130.4 ha, ZOHT 14 at 111.9 ha, ZOHT 5 at 65.7 ha, GWEN LAKE 3 at 18.7 ha and ANTKO 21 at 14.2 ha — 7,624.2 ha in total, nearly three times the city's 2,599 ha of land. Reserve land is held by the Crown in right of Canada for the use and benefit of a band; it is not freehold and it is not in the provincial land title system. The layer gives reserve names and not band names, and this record states only what it says.
Permissive exemptions, 2025$85,248.41 across 27 organisations
The City's 2025 Annual Report prints the whole list to the cent. Largest: Merritt Golf & Country Club $14,689.92, Nicola Valley Health Care Endowment Foundation Society $9,356.10, Nicola Valley Rodeo Association $8,154.24, Nicola Valley Food Bank Society $6,196.74, Nicola Valley Senior Housing Society $6,027.45, Nicola Valley Association for Community Living $4,952.51, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada $4,781.22, Merritt Curling Club $3,183.76, Nicola Native Lodge Society $2,901.41 and Citxw Nlakapamux Assembly $1,366.21. The City collects $712,121 for the Thompson Regional Hospital District separately.
Whole-city turnover, 2025141 sales, $74.1M in the city; 73 more in Merritt Rural
141 market transactions in the City of Merritt across 2025 — 136 residential, 4 commercial — with total fair market value of $74,058,240 and $1,073,514 of property transfer tax paid, jurisdiction 451. The province separately reports "Merritt Rural", jurisdiction 731, with 73 transactions, 65 of them residential, worth $54,012,946 and $866,082 of tax — so a third of the money changing hands in the Merritt area is outside the city, on larger and more valuable rural parcels. BC Ministry of Finance property transfer tax data 2025.
Population, area and permits7,809 people; 2,599 ha; 52 building permits
Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024: 2021 Census population 7,051, BC Stats estimate 7,809; land 2,599 ha, water 23 ha, total 2,622 ha, and the province's ABMS legal boundary layer independently returns 2,621.5 ha. In 2025 the City issued 52 building permits for $586,061 of fees, 28 plumbing permits and 15 demolition permits, and recorded 6 apartment units created and 15 removed, plus 15 NVIT student-housing units. Four apartment development permits are in the pipeline at Conklin (106 units), Merritt Ave (40 and 49) and Menzies Ave (50).
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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.
The honest answer in Merritt runs in three directions and only one of them is private. The nine reserves around the town cover 7,624 hectares against the city's 2,599, held by the Crown in right of Canada for the benefit of bands. The City holds $7.66 million of land at cost, the airport, and — for the first time in 2026 — floodplain parcels it is buying back from owners who were flooded out in November 2021. And beyond the boundary, forest tenure on Crown land is held by licensees who own none of it. Inside the city, no company, trust or family is identified as a large landholder by any public record examined.
| Name | Type | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Federal reserve land around Merritt NICOLA MAMEET 1 at 4,580.6 ha, COLDWATER 1 at 1,847.6 ha, PAUL'S BASIN 2 at 652.9 ha, ZOHT 4 at 202.2 ha, JOEYASKA 2 at 130.4 ha, ZOHT 14 at 111.9 ha, ZOHT 5 at 65.7 ha, GWEN LAKE 3 at 18.7 ha and ANTKO 21 at 14.2 ha, from the province's reserve boundary layer over a box around the city. Reserve land is held by the Crown in right of Canada for the use and benefit of a band; it is not freehold and not in the provincial land title system. The layer names reserves and not bands. The City separately records that it funds Nicola Valley transit jointly with the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the Lower Nicola Indian Band, and that its flood mitigation department "continues to engage closely with local First Nations"; no inference is drawn between those statements and any reserve. |
Government | 7,624.2 ha across nine reservesA |
| City of Merritt Land at 31 December 2025 within $127,298,835 of net tangible capital assets, plus $14,735,515 of land improvements at cost. The City holds the municipal airport and is both buying and selling: acquiring high-risk floodplain parcels under the Coldwater Land Acquisition Program, leasing an airport lot at $20,254 a year for up to 25 years, and selling a riverbank remnant for $5,136.16. Its notices give PIDs and legal descriptions, which makes Merritt the only city in this batch whose own transactions are traceable parcel by parcel. |
Government | $7,662,166 of land at cost; plus 22 floodplain properties being acquiredA |
| Aspen Planers Ltd. The last sawmilling company in Merritt, family-owned for more than 70 years, operating two Merritt sites. Whether it holds the mill land in fee simple is not published; the company is identified by its own releases and by reporting, not by a register. |
Family / private | The city's only major-industry holding, $16.2M of assessmentB |
| Government of Canada — the federal footprint The Merritt Post Office at 2040 Voght St (Canada Post, 0.1115 ha, 469.6 sq m of building) and the Merritt Detachment Site at 2999 Voght St (RCMP, 0.7240 ha, 1,023 sq m). Unlike Port Moody, Sidney and White Rock, Merritt has no federal leased premises at all in the register — both federal interests here are owned outright. |
Government | 0.8355 ha, both parcels Crown OwnedA |
| Privately held land (owner not published) 77.6% of Merritt's roll is residential and no public dataset names the owner of any of it. The one thing the public record does say about private ownership here is that some of it is being bought out: 22 properties affected by the flood mitigation programme, 80% of offers accepted by mid-2026. The Land Owner Transparency Registry reaches only land held through a corporation, trust or partnership — in a town of 7,809, most of it is not. |
Private company | $1.36 billion of residential assessment on the 2026 rollA |
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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.
Merritt's housing market is being rebuilt rather than extended. The City issued 52 building permits in 2025 and its own count of units is net negative on apartments — 6 created against 15 removed — while 28 mobile homes were moved onto City airport land under an emergency transitional housing programme and two were sold. The forward pipeline is four apartment development permits totalling 245 units plus NVIT student housing. No builder is named by any source opened here, because the City publishes projects and addresses and never proponents; the entities below are the housing and care bodies the City names in its exemption table.
| Name | Type | Municipal taxes forgone or units, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Nicola Valley Senior Housing Society The largest named housing holder in Merritt on the City's 2025 permissive exemption list. The table gives the organisation and the amount to the cent and no address or folio. |
Institution | $6,027.45 of municipal taxes forgoneA |
| Nicola Native Lodge Society Named on the City's 2025 permissive exemption list. |
Institution | $2,901.41 of municipal taxes forgoneA |
| Nicola Valley Association for Community Living Named on the City's 2025 permissive exemption list; the second largest social-service exemption in the city after the health care endowment foundation. |
Institution | $4,952.51 of municipal taxes forgoneA |
| Nicola Valley Institute of Technology The City's building-permit statistics count 15 units under "NVIT STUDENT HOUSING" and its development permits in progress include "4155 Belshaw – NVIT Student Housing and Daycare". The largest single addition of dwellings in the city in 2025. |
Institution | 15 student-housing units created, 2025B |
| The City of Merritt's own development record (not a builder) Development permits in progress at 2088 Conklin Ave (106 units), 1799 Menzies (50 units) and on Merritt Ave (40 and 49 units) total 245 apartment units against a 2025 net of minus 9. Subdivisions completed in 2025 were a 5-lot comprehensive development at Gateway 286 and a 2-lot industrial at 3998 Airport Rd; in progress are 17 residential lots on Bann St, 3 on Lindley Creek Road, 2 on Blackwell Ave and 3 industrial on Nelson Ave. The City also completed a Municipal Development Corporation feasibility study in 2025. |
Government | 52 building permits; 245 apartment units permittedA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Merritt publishes no list of its commercial owners, and the only large commercial or industrial entity any document opened here names is the sawmill. The town's business-and-other class is $313.3 million, 17.9% of the roll — a high share for a town of 7,809, because Merritt is the Nicola Valley's service centre and sits where the Coquihalla meets Highway 97C. Its major-industry class, $16.2 million, is one mill, and that mill was shut when the most recent source opened here was written.
| Name | Type | What the public record states |
|---|---|---|
| Aspen Planers Ltd. "Aspen Planers is the last sawmilling company in Merritt." Its own 2019 release calls it "a family-owned business that has operated for more than 70 years" and "the major employer in this area", with operations also at Savona and Lillooet; the Merritt Herald reports it as owned by Surrey-based AP Group and running two Merritt sites. The company relies "mostly upon the open market" rather than dedicated timber tenure. The major-industry class on the 2026 roll is $16,160,700 city-wide; no document opened attributes it to a named parcel or owner. |
Family / private | $16,160,700 of major-industry assessment city-wideB |
| Merritt Business & Economic Development Society The only business organisation on the City's exemption list. The City's economic development work in 2025 was an Economic Development Marketing Strategy Plan and engagement with community partners; it published no inventory of commercial property or owners. |
Institution | $1,091.75 of municipal taxes forgoneA |
| Pye Creek Industries Ltd. and the Merritt-area woodlot licensees Forest tenure is not ownership and this is recorded as context only. The province's FTEN managed-licence layer, queried over a box around Merritt, returns three woodlot licences: W0390 to PYE CREEK INDUSTRIES LTD. across two polygons totalling 613.9 ha, W0354 to "LOWER NICOLA" at 178.8 ha, and W1860 across five polygons totalling 817.8 ha held by an individual who is not named here. A woodlot licence is a right to harvest Crown timber on Crown land; none of it is freehold and all of it is outside the city. |
Private company | Woodlot Licence W0390, 613.9 ha of Crown landA |
| The owners of Merritt's highway commercial and downtown frontage Not established. Merritt publishes no principal-taxpayer table, unlike Port Moody (10 registered owners) and Sidney (27). Establishing who owns a motel on the Coquihalla interchange or a shop on Quilchena Avenue means buying an $11.06 title search, or a $125.26 tax certificate, parcel by parcel. |
Private company | $313,339,700 of business-class assessment, 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.
- ParcelMap BC parcel counts, ownership-class splits and titled-area figures for Merritt. The province's public WFS returned HTTP 504 and GeoServer connection-pool timeouts to every request over several hours.
- Which 22 properties the Coldwater Land Acquisition Program affects, what the City is paying for them, and how much land it will end up holding. The quarterly update gives counts and percentages and no parcels, prices or areas, and the appraisal plan itself is not published.
- The registered owner of the Aspen Planers mill site, and whether the company holds it in fee simple. Its ownership by Surrey-based AP Group rests on reporting in the Merritt Herald rather than on a register, which is why the entry is tier B.
- Who is building the Merritt Data Centre at 3998 Airport Road and who owns the land. The City names the project in two places and the proponent in neither.
- Who holds title to the Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre. Merritt's exemption list carries the Nicola Valley Health Care Endowment Foundation Society at $9,356.10 and the Nicola Valley Health Care Auxiliary at $1,828.53, but a hospital is statutorily rather than permissively exempt and so is absent from the only owner list the City publishes. The City collects $712,121 for the Thompson Regional Hospital District.
- Which band holds each of the nine reserves around Merritt. The province's layer gives reserve names only, and the City names the Lower Nicola Indian Band as a transit funding partner without connecting it to a reserve.
- Any list of Merritt's largest registered owners or principal taxpayers. The City publishes none; its exemption table and its notices of disposition are the only owner records it produces.
- The highest assessed single parcel in Merritt in dollars. BC Assessment holds it and its site forbids commercial use of the data outright.
- Whether the Aspen Planers mill has reopened. The most recent source opened is an MLA's open letter of 28 October 2025 stating the mill is shuttered with 200 out of work; the most recent reporting is behind a Cloudflare challenge at coastreporter.net that returned HTTP 403.
- BC publishes no price-paid file. Merritt's 2025 corporate-transaction count is suppressed as "nr" in 8 of 12 months in the city and 7 of 12 in Merritt Rural.
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Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026, Searches table and Tax Certificates Online participating-municipality table — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — important dates — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- BC Assessment home page, 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 — open data extract (dfrp-rbif.xml), rows whose parcel Municipality or Metro Area names the city — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- BC Physical Address Geocoder — GeoBC / Province of British Columbia · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP), WFS, legal boundary polygons used for point-in-polygon checks — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- 2025 Annual Report — City of Merritt (Note 6 Tangible Capital Assets; 2025 Permissive Tax Exemptions, 27 organisations; 2025 Building Department Permits / Fees Stats; Development Services key developments; Coldwater Land Acquisition Program; Transit) — City of Merritt · openA
- Flood Mitigation Council Update, Quarterly Report Q2 2026 — Land Acquisition and Finance sections — City of Merritt Flood Mitigation Department · openA
- Notice of Disposition of Land — Airport Road, Lot 1, 4 December 2025 (sections 26 and 94, Community Charter) — City of Merritt · openA
- Aspen Planers curtails production at Merritt sawmill (company release, 31 May 2019); Aspen Planers Merritt remains shut down, reopening date uncertain (11 January 2023); Nicola Valley MLA calls for action to reopen Aspen Planers (28 October 2025) — Wood Business / Merritt Herald · openA
- Public Notice — Disposition of Land, Lot 10 of Block 6 Plan KAP1219 DL 125 LD 25 (PID 001-752-791), consideration $5,136.16 — City of Merritt · openA
- FTEN Managed Licence Polygon (WHSE_FOREST_TENURE.FTEN_MANAGED_LICENCE_POLY_SVW), WFS over a box around Merritt — woodlot licences W0390, W0354 and W1860 — BC Ministry of Forests / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Indian Reserves and Indian Band Villages — Administrative Boundaries (CLAB_INDIAN_RESERVES), WFS over a box around Merritt, nine reserves totalling 7,624.2 ha — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Apply for your 2027 Interim Permissive Tax Exemption — the City's exemption process under the Community Charter — City of Merritt · openA