Mission, British Columbia
Mission is a city that holds a tree farm licence over 42% of its own municipal area — Tree Farm Licence 26, which the province's register lists under the name The Corporation of the District of Mission — and the distinction that matters is that only about 1,170 hectares of the 10,900-hectare Municipal Forest is land the City actually owns; the other 88% is provincial Crown land it is licensed to harvest. Below the forest, the biggest single thing anyone can document is federal: Mission Institution, 112 hectares and 82 buildings on Dewdney Trunk Road. The city's main shopping centre has no owner this research could establish.
8 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 19 sources · 5 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
British Columbia's land title register is run by the Land Title and Survey Authority and anyone may search it, but every search is a paid transaction: $11.06 for a search under section 377 of the Land Title Act on the LTSA Customer Fee Listing current at 1 April 2026. There is no bulk owner product and no price-paid file. What is unusual is the Land Owner Transparency Registry — filing obligations running from 30 November 2020 and public search live since 30 April 2021 — which names the individuals behind corporations, trusts and partnerships that own BC land; the same LTSA schedule prices a search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act at NIL. Mission sits on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table as "Mission, District" at $115.26. It also publishes the best building-level owner list of the five northwest and Fraser Valley cities read here: Schedule "A" to Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaw 6376-2025 gives, for 61 exempt parcels, the "Owner/Occupier", the roll number, the civic address, the full legal description and the parcel identifier — and Bylaw 6377-2025 does the same for 17 places of worship. One line in that schedule reads "Confidential" in every column, for a women's transition house: BC lets an owner be withheld where safety requires it, and the record here does not go looking for it.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Institution 33737 Dewdney Trunk Road, Mission 35,262 sq m in 82 buildings on 112.06 ha |
Institutional | Correctional Service of Canada The federal Directory of Federal Real Property records Mission Institution at 33737 Dewdney Trunk Road with the Correctional Service of Canada as custodian, interest type "Crown Owned", 112.0600 ha of land, 35,262 sq m of floor area and 82 buildings — by floor area and building count the largest single property in the register anywhere in the city, and the largest Crown-owned holding in Mission outside the municipal forest. It is the only Crown Owned federal property of any size in the city: everything else federal here is either tiny or held under licence. |
Government | —A |
| Mission Municipal Forest (Tree Farm Licence 26) — the municipally owned part Bear Mountain, Red Mountain and Steelhead, north of Stave Falls about 1,170 ha of 10,900 ha |
Land | City of Mission The City's own page states the Municipal Forest "officially known as Mission Tree Farm License #26" spans approximately 10,900 hectares and "is composed of 12% municipally owned land, and 88% provincial Crown land", managed by the City's Forestry Department since 1958, with an annual allowable cut of 60,000 m³ equal to 80 ha a year, SFI-certified since 2023. The province's TFL Schedule A layer — the layer that maps land a licensee actually owns — returns 80 parcels totalling 1,171.2 ha for TFL26, essentially all of it inside the municipal boundary. The licence over the other 88% is a right to harvest Crown land, not title. |
Government | —B |
| Stave River and Ruskin lands occupied by Canada under licence Hayward Street and the Stave River, Mission 49.94 ha under licence |
Land | British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority The federal real property register works as an inverse owner register here. It lists two Fisheries and Oceans Canada properties in Mission with interest type "Lease or Licence": the Ruskin Spawning Channel on the Stave River at 24.9700 ha, and "Stave River Fish Release", whose address field reads "B.C. Hydro recreation site, Hayward Street", at 24.9692 ha. Canada occupies both; the register names the site as BC Hydro's. By contrast the only Crown Owned federal land Fisheries and Oceans holds in Mission is 1.62 ha on the Fraser River at District Lot 3472. |
Government | —B |
| Ducks Unlimited lands at Silverdale Silverdale Avenue, Turner Street and Lougheed Highway, Silverdale 7 parcels |
Land | Ducks Unlimited Mission Community Services Society Schedule "A" to City of Mission Bylaw 6376-2025 lists the Society as "Owner/Occupier" of seven parcels with their parcel identifiers: 29220 Lougheed Highway (PID 029-452-236), 29449 Donatelli Avenue (005-685-826), Lougheed Highway (004-208-510), Turner Street (005-055-385), 31420 Silverdale Avenue (007-348-789), Silverdale Avenue (007-546-483) and Part NE1/4 Section 19 Township 17 at Silverdale Avenue (013-373-595). It is the largest single holding in the city's exemption schedule by parcel count after the Mission Association for Community Living, and it sits in the Silverdale growth area. |
Institution | —A |
| Zajac Ranch, Florence Lake Road 15600 Florence Lake Road, Mission |
Institutional | Mel Jr. and Marty Zajac Foundation Bylaw 6376-2025 lists the Foundation as Owner/Occupier of Parcel A, Plan BCP6283, District Lot 5868, at 15600 Florence Lake Road, PID 025-690-761, and of a second holding at District Lot 5868 described as an "ILMB Lease for electrical power line purposes, Lease/Permit/Licence #241369" — the schedule itself distinguishing the fee simple parcel from the provincial lease. It is the only private foundation named as a landowner in the city's exemption schedule. |
Family / private | —A |
| The Junction Shopping Centre 32525 and 32555 London Avenue, Mission over 250,000 sq ft |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The City of Mission's own economic development page states the site is "over 250,000 sq ft", that major retailers include Save-On-Foods, Famous Players Silver City, Winners, Canadian Tire, London Drugs and Staples, that it can still accommodate about 40,000 sq ft more retail at $34+ per sq ft plus additional rents — and that it is "Owned by Rio Can". RioCan's own leasing directory, read when curl was refused with HTTP 403, lists five British Columbia properties and none of them is in Mission. One of the two statements is out of date and no document opened settles which, so no owner is recorded. The RioCan directory detail comes from source s19. |
Not established | —B |
| Mission waterfront 3.5 km of Fraser River frontage either side of the Mission Bridge 120 ha (296 acres) |
Land | Not established a paid title search would answer it The City's waterfront pages state the area encompasses "296 acres of land and stretching 3.5km of frontage along the Fraser River", that the revitalization plan was initiated in 2020, and — the sentence that matters for ownership — that "Given the constraints of the area, no one landowner can revitalize successfully on their own – it will require coordination." Mission Bridgehead Investment Corporation's own page gives 120 hectares and says it will "assume a problem-solving role on behalf of landowners". Neither names a landowner. No document opened identifies who holds the waterfront parcels. |
Not established | —A |
| Silver Creek Industrial Park 31500 Lougheed Highway, Mission 39.8 acres |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it The City's economic development page states the park is a 39.8 acre site with highway frontage zoned INBP1 (Industrial Business Park), just west of downtown Mission, with limited units available for sale or lease through a named City economic development officer. The page names no owner, and no other document opened does. Light industry is assessed at $302,992,300 across the whole city on the 2026 roll, and major industry at nil. |
Not established | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Mission's land story is the inverse of most BC cities: 42% of the municipal area is Crown land held under the City's own tree farm licence, which is a right to cut rather than a title, and only about 4.5% of the area is the licence's Schedule A land that the City actually owns. Private land is 31.8% — low for the Fraser Valley — and 1,508.8 ha of the city is in the Agricultural Land Reserve. Figures are the 2026 provincial assessment roll (Schedule 701), the City's 2024 annual report and municipal forest page, the province's tenure, ALR and land-designation layers and the 2025 property transfer tax file. The Land Designations for Forest Management layer is a forest-management product and its own catalogue entry says it "SHOULD NOT be used for operational level analysis". Inside a built-up municipality its residual class "Forest Management Unit" swallows whatever it has not mapped — we probed it and it returned that class for roads, rail corridor, parks, hospital land, filled foreshore and the bed of the Fraser River — so it is NOT read here as Crown forest inside a town boundary. Outside the boundary, over a rural box, that class is the provincial forest land base and is read as Crown.
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Mission is the clearest municipal illustration in this batch of the difference between a licence and a title. The City is the licensee of 14,808.9 hectares of Tree Farm Licence 26 and the owner of about 1,171 hectares of it. Nearly 42% of the municipality is Crown land under that licence; a further 5.9% is a First Nations Woodland Licence, also Crown. Private land is 31.8%, and 5.7% of the city is in the Agricultural Land Reserve, which restricts use without changing who owns it.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| City of Mission The province's TFL Schedule A layer gives 1,171.2 ha in 80 parcels for TFL26, land the licensee owns; the City's own page puts the municipally owned share of the 10,900 ha Municipal Forest at 12%. The land-designation sample adds 497.0 ha of municipal parcels and 84.3 ha of local and regional park elsewhere in the city. Forest revenues go to a Forestry Reserve Fund which the City says has funded a library, fire trucks and a fire hall, an ice rink conversion, the Cedar Valley Connector, a CT scanner for Mission Hospital and arts grants. No land-at-cost figure could be read: the City's financial statements are scanned images. |
Government | about 1,171 ha of forest freehold plus 581.3 ha of municipal parcels and parkB |
| Province of British Columbia (Crown land under the City's own licence) The land-designation sample returns 11,020.6 ha of "Tree Farm Licence, Schedule B" inside the legal boundary — 41.8% of the municipality — plus 1,553.3 ha of First Nations Woodland Licence, 545.1 ha of miscellaneous reserves, 233.0 ha of provincial park, 1,321.0 ha of community watershed and 1,144.3 ha of watershed reserve across the wider sample. Schedule B land is Crown land: the City holds the right to harvest it and the Crown holds the title. Treating the municipal forest as municipal land would overstate the City's holding roughly nine-fold. |
Government | 11,020.6 ha inside the municipality under TFL 26 Schedule BA |
| Privately held land (owner not published) Derived from our 40 m grid sample of the province's Land Designations for Forest Management layer: 7,214.9 ha Private Parcel plus 1,172.3 ha of TFL Schedule A. Over a 1,090 km² box around the city, private land is 37,923.8 ha, 34.8%, against 38,430.7 ha of named Crown designations and 2,644.5 ha of Woodlot Licence Schedule B. The layer records the designation and never the owner's name, and is licensed "Access Only", so only the aggregate is published. |
Private company | 8,387.2 ha inside the city, 31.8% of its landA |
| Government of Canada The federal register shows Correctional Service of Canada Crown Owned at 112.06 ha (Mission Institution), Fisheries and Oceans Canada Crown Owned at 1.62 ha on the Fraser River and Canada Post Crown Owned at 0.09 ha (the post office at 33191 1st Avenue). Everything else is a licence or a lease: 49.94 ha of Fisheries and Oceans fish-habitat works, the RCMP detachment at 7171 Oliver Street and a Canada Post parking lot on Welton Street. The land-designation sample separately returns 505.1 ha of First Nation Reserve and 186.1 ha of other federal parcels inside the boundary. |
Government | 113.4 ha Crown Owned, dominated by one prisonA |
| Ducks Unlimited Mission Community Services Society Named by the City as Owner/Occupier of seven parcels with PIDs in Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025, concentrated on Silverdale Avenue, Turner Street and the Lougheed Highway in the Silverdale area — including a "Part NE1/4, Section 19, Township 17" parcel. It is the largest conservation landholding the city's own documents name. |
Institution | 7 parcels at SilverdaleA |
| Sto:lo Heritage Trust Society Named by the City as Owner/Occupier of Lot 31, Plan NWP38924 at 35087 Lougheed Highway (PID 008-614-652) and Parcel A, District Lot 476 at 35102 Sunnyside Drive (PID 002-872-854) in Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025. The Fraser Valley Conservancy is named as owner of Lot 1, Plan BCP50242 (PID 028-779-002), and the Silverdale Community Centre of three parcels on McLean Street and Silverhill Avenue. |
Institution | 2 parcelsA |
Where property meets office
Recorded only where a public record states it — a disclosure registry, council minutes, a land-use decision. Stated as fact, with nothing inferred from it.
| Holder | Office | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| The Corporation of the District of Mission | City Council; the Forestry Department reports to it, and Council directs the Forestry Reserve Fund | Tree Farm Licence 26, 14,808.9 ha, of which about 1,171 ha is the City's own land The province's tree farm licence register records the licensee of TFL26 as "The Corporation of the District of Mission" — the municipality's legal corporate name, although it brands itself the City of Mission and LTSA's fee table still lists "Mission, District". The City's own page calls it "one of the few municipally operated forests in all of Canada", managed since 1958 under Management Plan 10 and a 2022–2027 Forest Stewardship Plan, with timber revenue allocated to a Forestry Reserve Fund spent on capital projects and community grants "as decided by the City Council". Published by the City; no private interest is suggested. B |
| Mission Bridgehead Investment Corporation | A stand-alone corporation whose sole shareholder is the City of Mission | A mandate funded by "repurposing City lands for higher and better uses" MBIC's own pages state that the City of Mission is its sole shareholder, that it operates at arm's length with an independent board of directors and CEO under its Articles of Incorporation, that initial funding comes from repurposing City lands, program funding and private funding from development applications, and that the operational mandate is "to be self-funding, generate profit, and pay dividends to the City". Its stated role is to "Serve as a problem solver to address and resolve land use issues on behalf of landowners". Statement of fact as published. A |
| Sara for Women Society | A permissive tax exemption granted by Council under Bylaw 6376-2025 | One exempt parcel whose owner, roll number, address and legal description are all published as "Confidential" Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025 carries three Sara for Women Society lines: 33173 1st Avenue (six PIDs, 100% exempt), 102-33070 5th Avenue (29% exempt) and a third reading "Confidential" in the Owner/Occupier, roll number, civic, legal description and PID columns alike. A statutory schedule that otherwise publishes a PID for every parcel withholds one for a transition house. The record notes this as the limit of the register and does not attempt to identify the parcel. A |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Mission created 545 housing units and 128 lots in 2024 on its own figures, and no published source names the companies that built them. There is no Canadian equivalent of the HIA Housing 100, CMHC's starts series does not break out builders, and the City's annual report counts permits rather than permit holders. What the City does publish, parcel by parcel with a PID, is who owns the non-market housing — and on that list one organisation dominates. The entries below are owners the City names, not builders with output figures.
| Name | Type | Parcels / figure |
|---|---|---|
| City of Mission (as regulator and land owner) The 2024 Annual Report gives 545 units created, 128 lots created and 159 applications, and 86 residential building permits issued. In the same year the City amended the Zoning Bylaw to allow up to four residential units per lot in urban and suburban zones, adopted a Transit Oriented Area bylaw pursuant to Bill 47 near the West Coast Express station, began an Official Community Plan update with O2 Planning & Design, and worked with HelpSeeker Technologies on a Housing Needs Assessment completed in early 2025. |
Government | 545 units and 128 lots created in 2024A |
| Mission Association for Community Living Named as "Owner/Occupier" of sixteen parcels in Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025, with parcel identifiers, including eight strata lots at 32540 Logan Avenue (Plan LMS1682), 33083 Tunbridge Avenue, 8645 Goundrey Street, 32886 7th Avenue, 32981 2nd Avenue, 7713 Grand Street, 7373 Murray Street, two strata lots at 33345 2nd Avenue, 7815 Tavernier Terrace and 33593 3rd Avenue. It is the largest holder by parcel count on the city's exemption schedule. |
Institution | 16 parcelsA |
| Mission Association for Seniors Housing Named as Owner/Occupier of Lot A, Plan BCP17333 at 7380 Hurd Street (PID 026-270-099) and Parcel A, Plan LMP40878 at 7682 Grand Street (PID 024-383-619) in Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025. |
Institution | 2 parcelsA |
| Mamele'awt Qweesome Housing Society Named as Owner/Occupier of Lot 1, Plan LMP18005, District Lot 165 at 32539 Fraser Crescent (PID 018-856-861) in Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025 — the only Indigenous housing provider named as a landowner in the city's schedule. |
Institution | 1 parcelA |
| Lookout Housing and Health Society Named as Owner/Occupier of Lot A, Plan LMP35234 at 7251 Cedar Valley Connector (PID 023-911-913) in Schedule A to Bylaw 6376-2025. Pleasant View Housing is listed separately at 7540 Hurd Street (PID 007-765-991) as "Class 1 – 100% Exempt Excluding Caretaker Suite", and Communitas Supportive Care Society at 33032 11th Avenue (PID 010-314-369). |
Institution | 1 parcelA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The business-and-other class is $1.37 billion, 8.2% of the roll, and 27 commercial transactions completed in 2025. Mission's commercial property is almost entirely in formats that publish rents but not owners: the City's economic development page gives lease rates for six precincts — industrial $10–$14+ per sq ft, The Junction $34+, the Lougheed corridor $32+, Heritage Park Marketplace $24+, downtown $14–$22 — and names the tenants of each, but names an owner for only one site, and that attribution does not survive checking against the named owner's own directory.
| Name | Type | Floor area / holding |
|---|---|---|
| The Junction Shopping Centre — owner not established The City's page says "Owned by Rio Can" and lists Save-On-Foods, Famous Players Silver City, Winners, Canadian Tire, London Drugs and Staples as major retailers, with about 40,000 sq ft of capacity left and lease rates of $34+ per sq ft plus additional rents. RioCan's own leasing directory names five BC properties and none in Mission, and riocan.com returns HTTP 403 to every scripted request. The largest piece of commercial real estate in Mission therefore has no owner on this page (RioCan directory read as source s19). |
Not established | over 250,000 sq ftB |
| Mission Bridgehead Investment Corporation MBIC's own pages state that it "is a stand-alone corporation operating at arms-length from the City of Mission", that "the City of Mission is its sole shareholder", that it has an independent board and CEO under its Articles of Incorporation, and that "Initial funding will come from repurposing City lands for higher and better uses, program funding, and private funding", with a mandate to be self-funding and "pay dividends to the City". Its initial focus is the 120-hectare waterfront. It is a municipal development vehicle, not yet a documented landowner. |
Government | 120 ha waterfront mandate; City of Mission the sole shareholderA |
| British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Established indirectly but firmly: the federal real property register lists Fisheries and Oceans Canada occupying "Stave River Fish Release" at "B.C. Hydro recreation site, Hayward Street" (24.9692 ha) and the Ruskin Spawning Channel on the Stave River (24.9700 ha), both under "Lease or Licence" rather than Crown Owned — so Canada is the tenant and the register names the landlord. The Mel Jr. and Marty Zajac Foundation's second exempt holding is likewise described as an ILMB lease for electrical power line purposes. |
Government | a recreation site at Hayward Street and the Ruskin/Stave River dam landsB |
| Mission Regional Chamber of Commerce Bylaw 6376-2025 lists the Chamber against roll 890-0010-01 at 34033 Lougheed Highway, Lot 8 Plan NWP29023, with the note "Leased Portion - Parent Folio See 890-0010-00" and no PID — so the Chamber occupies rather than owns, and the schedule does not name the owner of the parent folio. The City's Forestry Department has itself relocated from City Hall to the upper floor of the Chamber of Commerce building at that address, which makes the City a tenant of the same building. |
Institution | a leased portion at 34033 Lougheed HighwayB |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The City of Mission's land and tangible capital assets at cost. Pages roughly 60 to 95 of the 98-page 2024 Annual Report, which contain the audited financial statements and the statistical schedules, are scanned images that yield no text, and the 2025 SOFI report extracts to 16 characters. No OCR was available.
- Who owns The Junction Shopping Centre. The City's economic development page says RioCan; RioCan's own leasing directory lists no Mission property and its site refuses scripted requests. One of the two is stale and no document settles it.
- Who owns the Mission waterfront's 120 hectares. Both the City and its own development corporation state that multiple landowners are involved and that coordination between them is the obstacle; neither names one.
- Who owns Silver Creek Industrial Park (39.8 acres at 31500 Lougheed Highway), the Mission Industrial Park, Heritage Park Marketplace or the Lougheed corridor plazas (Mission Gateway Plaza, Mission Hills, Mission Common, Outlook Village). The City publishes lease rates and tenants for all of them and an owner for none.
- Who built the 545 units created in 2024. No league table, filing or City document names a private homebuilder in Mission with a unit figure.
- Who owns Westminster Abbey's land and Mission Memorial Hospital. Neither appears in the City's permissive exemption bylaws — places of worship are statutorily exempt for the building itself and the permissive schedule covers only surrounding land — and no other document opened names an owner.
- The exact split of Tree Farm Licence 26 between the municipality and the Crown. The City says 12% municipally owned of approximately 10,900 ha (about 1,308 ha); the province's Schedule A layer returns 1,171.2 ha against a whole-licence current-view area of 14,808.9 ha and a 2024 Annual Report figure of 10,935 ha. The three areas are not reconciled by any document opened, so both the City's percentage and the province's hectarage are reported.
- No open dataset names the owner of any BC parcel; BC publishes no price-paid file; and LOTR covers only land held through corporations, trusts and partnerships, not land held directly by an individual.
Sources
- Fees — LTSA Customer Fee Listing as at April 1, 2026 — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- About the Land Owner Transparency Registry — Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia · openA
- BC Assessment homepage, terms of use and copyright notice — BC Assessment · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 701, Assessed Values for the year 2026 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Local Government Statistics — Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024 — BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs · openA
- Property Transfer Tax Data 2025 — municipal monthly file — BC Ministry of Finance / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Land Designations for Forest Management (ANA_LDFM_LND_DESIG_FOR_MGMT_SP) — BC Ministry of Forests / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Municipalities — Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC (ABMS_MUNICIPALITIES_SP), WFS — GeoBC / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full dataset — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Mission Municipal Forest — Tree Farm Licence #26 — City of Mission · openA
- Annual Report 2024 — City of Mission (Mission Municipal Forest, Development Services and Inspection Services statistics) — City of Mission · openA
- Bylaw 6376-2025 — City of Mission Permissive Tax Exemption Not-For-Profit (2026–2029), Schedule A (Owner/Occupier, roll, civic address, legal description, PID) — City of Mission · openA
- Bylaw 6377-2025 — City of Mission Permissive Tax Exemption Places of Worship (2026–2035), Schedule A — City of Mission · openA
- Commercial & Industrial Real Estate — Mission — City of Mission · openA
- Mission Waterfront Implementation / Waterfront Revitalization — City of Mission and Mission Bridgehead Investment Corporation · openA
- About MBIC — Mission Bridgehead Investment Corporation (sole shareholder, funding from repurposing City lands) — Mission Bridgehead Investment Corporation · openA
- FADM_TFL_ALL_SP and FADM_TFL_SCHED_A — Tree Farm Licence current view and Schedule A (licensee-owned) land, WFS, TFL26 — BC Ministry of Forests / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- OATS_ALR_POLYS — Agricultural Land Reserve polygons, WFS — Agricultural Land Commission / BC Data Catalogue · openA
- RioCan REIT — Find Retail Spaces For Lease Across Canada (leasing directory, read by WebFetch; curl receives HTTP 403) — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust · blockedB