Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Prince Rupert is a city whose most valuable ground is not for sale and never was: the Prince Rupert Port Authority is the Crown-owned custodian of 2,536 hectares inside the municipality, from the 62-hectare Fairview Container Terminal that DP World merely operates to the whole 1,903-hectare harbour boundary, and in 2025 it paid the City $2,133,013 in lieu of taxes. Major industry supplies $12.1 million of the City's $29.9 million property tax take. Behind the port the City itself owns Watson Island, acquired through a tax sale and now leased to its own development company for $100 a year, and the biggest private waterfront holding the public record names belongs to Jim Pattison Industries.
8 buildings · 7 with an owner established · 18 sources · 3 tier B · 5 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
British Columbia's land title register is run by the Land Title and Survey Authority and anyone may search it, but every search is a paid transaction: $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. Prince Rupert is one of the places where the register is the only route: the city is not on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online list of 82 participating municipalities, so there is no cheaper municipal product here, and BC publishes no price-paid file and no open owner dataset. What Prince Rupert does have is two public owner registers that no fee is charged for. The federal Directory of Federal Real Property names the Prince Rupert Port Authority as the Crown-owned custodian of eight properties in the city, parcel by parcel; and the City's own permissive tax exemption schedule is headed "Registered Owner/ Occupier Identity/ Facility" and names the holder against a roll number and a legal description for every exempt parcel.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title search$11.06 per title search (LTSA Customer Fee Listing, fees as at April 1, 2026). A search of publicly accessible information under section 35 of the Land Owner Transparency Act is priced NIL on the same schedule. Prince Rupert is not among the 82 municipalities on LTSA's Tax Certificates Online table, so no municipal tax-certificate route exists here.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Container Terminal 3100 Scott Road, Prince Rupert 62.3 ha of land |
Industrial | Prince Rupert Port Authority The federal Directory of Federal Real Property records Fairview Container Terminal at 3100 Scott Road with the Prince Rupert Port Authority as custodian, interest type "Crown Owned", 62.3460 ha of land, use Transportation Marine. The Port Authority's own terminal page says the terminal is "Operated by DP World" and describes two marine berths and on-dock rail building trains of up to 12,000 feet — operation, not ownership. The Port Authority was established on 1 May 1999 under the Canada Marine Act, taking over the assets of the Prince Rupert Port Corporation at carrying value. |
Government | —B |
| Ridley Island Ridley Island Road, Prince Rupert 520.0 ha of land |
Industrial | Prince Rupert Port Authority The Directory of Federal Real Property gives the Port Authority 520.0181 ha of Crown Owned land at Ridley Island inside the City of Prince Rupert and a further 0.5259 ha in Port Edward, plus 25.5450 ha at South Kaien Island. The terminals on it are other companies' businesses on the Authority's land: the Port's own pages state Trigon Pacific Terminals Ltd. "is a privately-held entity by AMCI Group, Riverside Holdings and the Lax Kw’alaams Band and Metlakatla First Nation", that Prince Rupert Grain "owns and operates Canada’s largest grain terminal on the West Coast", and that AltaGas's propane export terminal sits on "a 24-acre brownfield site". |
Government | —B |
| Watson Island Watson Island, Prince Rupert (former pulp mill site) |
Industrial | City of Prince Rupert The City's audited 2025 financial statements state that "the City became the owner of Watson Island through the tax sale process and remediated the pulp mill installation in partnership with the Ministry of Environment", that the Province reports $1,336,414 of school taxes owing on it, and "The City no longer intends to sell the property." Prince Rupert Legacy Inc., the City's wholly owned development company, "leases land from the City of Prince Rupert under two thirty-year land lease agreements" commencing January and June 2017, each at nominal consideration of $100 per annum, not negotiated at arm's length. The City's annual report names six tenants and about $5M of annual revenue. |
Government | —A |
| Canfisco plant and boat launch, Waterfront Block G Waterfront Block G, DL 251, Range 5, Prince Rupert |
Industrial | Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. The City's permissive tax exemption schedule for 2026–2027, under a column headed "Registered Owner/ Occupier Identity/ Facility", lists "Jim Pattison Ind. Ltd (Canfisco Municipal Boat Launch Facility and building, 37.5% of the lands and improvements)" against roll 9000246.000 with $48,702.47 of estimated 2026 exemption, legal description "37.5% of Part of Lot 1, Waterfront Block G, DL 251, Range 5, LD14, Plan 7176". The next line exempts the Prince Rupert Gymnastics Association on a "Portion of area leased from Canfisco above", which places the company as landlord. The 37.5% describes the exempted share, not a stated ownership stake. |
Family / private | —A |
| Westview Wood Pellet Terminal Westview, Prince Rupert 1.25 million tonnes annual capacity |
Industrial | Drax Group plc The Port Authority's own terminal page states the terminal is "Now owned and operated by Drax Group", that it opened in January 2014 as the first purpose-built wood pellet export facility in North America, and that it can ship 1.25 million tonnes a year. The ground under it is the Port Authority's: the Directory of Federal Real Property records "Westview Back up Lands", Lot A Plan EPP73023, as 2.1500 ha of Crown Owned land with the Prince Rupert Port Authority as custodian. The terminal company owns the facility; the Authority holds the land. |
Public company | —B |
| Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre (Lester Centre of the Arts) Parcel Assign 28, Range 5, Plan 5631, Prince Rupert |
Institutional | Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre Society The largest single line in the City's 2026–2027 permissive exemption schedule, under the heading "Registered Owner/ Occupier Identity/ Facility": Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre Society, roll 9000363.000, $146,107.40 of estimated 2026 municipal exemption — nearly a third of the city's whole permissive total. The City separately granted the Lester Centre $159,000 in 2025. No sale price has ever been published for the building. |
Institution | —A |
| Government of Canada building, 417 2nd Avenue West 417 2nd Avenue West, Prince Rupert 2,584 sq m |
Office | Public Services and Procurement Canada The Directory of Federal Real Property records "GC Site - Prince Rupert" at 417 2nd Avenue West as Crown Owned, custodian Public Services and Procurement Canada, 0.2323 ha of land, 2,584 sq m of floor area in one building. Canada Post occupies the same address under a "Lease or Licence" interest with 612 sq m. Across the city the register shows Canada occupying three further office sites — 309 2nd Avenue West (the Ocean Centre), 45 Charlie Currie Road and the RCMP detachment at 145 Market Place — as tenant, not owner. |
Government | —A |
| Rupert Square Mall 500 2nd Avenue West, Prince Rupert |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The City's own tourism pages state that "The Rupert Square Shopping Centre is located on 2nd Avenue in the heart of downtown Prince Rupert. It has been open to the public since 1974. The 20 businesses located in the mall offer a wide range of services and products." No document opened names an owner. Search results attribute the mall to a Langley development company, but that company's website serves an empty page and publishes no property at all, so the attribution is not made here. Establishing the registered owner would cost $11.06 at the land title office, and Prince Rupert has no municipal tax-certificate alternative. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Prince Rupert is the clearest case in British Columbia of a city whose tax base is industrial and whose industrial land is federal. Major industry is 13.1% of the 2026 assessment roll but supplied 40.5% of the City's 2025 municipal property tax, and the single largest landholder pays no property tax at all — it pays a payment in lieu, which quadrupled in 2025 when a dispute was settled. Figures are the 2026 provincial assessment roll (Schedule 701), the City's audited 2025 financial statements, the federal real property register and the province's 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.
City total assessed value$2.59B
$2,586,970,429 for general municipal purposes on the 2026 roll: residential $1,878,229,000, major industry $337,889,000, business and other $312,955,500, light industry $45,319,700, utilities $7,041,135, recreation and non-profit $5,536,000, supportive housing $2, farm $92. BC Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Local Government Statistics Schedule 701, Assessed Values for 2026.
Major industry assessed value, 2023 to 2026$252.6M to $337.9M
Schedule 701 for the City of Prince Rupert: major industry $252,589,948 (2023), $270,670,000 (2024), $280,398,000 (2025), $337,889,000 (2026) — up 33.8% in three years while residential fell from $1.92bn to $1.88bn.
Share of municipal property tax from major industry40.5%
City of Prince Rupert Schedule of Tax Revenues, 2025 actual: major industry $12,113,061 of $29,943,451 of municipal property tax, against residential $9,536,910 and business $7,043,868. Audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.
Payment in lieu of taxes from the Port Authority$2,133,013 in 2025
Up from $646,410 in 2024 against a 2025 budget of $675,000. The City's annual report records that Council "resolved our PILT dispute with the Port Authority". Federal government properties paid a further $217,504 in lieu, and provincial grants in lieu were $638,589. Audited 2025 financial statements, Schedule of Tax Revenues.
Port Authority land inside the city, federal register2,536.25 ha across 8 properties
Directory of Federal Real Property, extract of 21 November 2025: eight properties with the Prince Rupert Port Authority as custodian and interest type "Crown Owned" in the municipality of Prince Rupert — Harbour Boundary 1,903.4394 ha, Ridley Island 520.0181 ha, Fairview Container Terminal 62.3460 ha, South Kaien Island 25.5450 ha, Cow Bay 10.9000 ha, Fairview Bay East 6.6560 ha, Fairview Terminal (North) 5.1930 ha, Westview Back up Lands 2.1500 ha — plus 372.76 ha in Port Edward. Fisheries and Oceans Canada holds a further 39.19 ha Crown Owned in the city.
City's own land, at cost$36,737,788
Closing historical cost of land at 31 December 2025 in the City's Schedule of Tangible Capital Assets, within $342,063,436 of cost and $252,014,439 of net book value; land additions in 2025 were $5,897,955 and a further $10,000,000 was added as asset retirement obligation cost. The City also carries $48,108,763 of investment in CityWest Cable & Telephone Corporation and $462,658 of land inventory held for resale.
Port Authority property and equipment$510.9M net, of which $91.0M land
Prince Rupert Port Authority consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2025: land $90,977 thousand at cost and net book value (freehold land is not depreciated), berthing structures $35,236 thousand net, roads and surfaces $140,586 thousand net and construction in progress $197,770 thousand, for $510,922 thousand of property and equipment, with $40,643 thousand of outstanding capital commitments including $38,413 thousand for CANXPORT.
Private share of the city27.0% of its land
Our own 30-metre grid sample of the province's Land Designations for Forest Management layer inside the legal city boundary (109,768 points, 9,879.1 ha against a boundary area of 9,878.8 ha) resolves to 1,792.2 ha Private Parcel, 589.1 ha municipal parcels and park, 622.9 ha federal parcels and reserve, 881.9 ha of named provincial Crown designations and 3,233.7 ha of water; a further 2,694.1 ha fell in the layer's residual "Forest Management Unit" class, which is not read as Crown forest inside a town. The layer is licensed "Access Only", so only this derived aggregate is published.
Whole-city turnover, 2025200 sales, $99.5M
200 market transactions in the City of Prince Rupert across 2025 — 177 residential, 22 commercial of which 5 industrial, 1 recreational — with total fair market value of $99,489,829 and $1,122,279 of property transfer tax paid. BC Ministry of Finance property transfer tax data 2025, municipal monthly file; the corporate-transaction count is suppressed as "nr" in 9 of the 12 months and the 6 reported corporate transactions are a floor, not a total.
Permissive tax exemptions, 2026 estimate$488,894
City of Prince Rupert, Permissive Tax Exemptions 2026 to 2027 under Bylaw No. 3665, 2025: $9,074.06 for places of worship and $479,819.62 for other properties, each row naming a registered owner or occupier against a roll number and legal description. The schedule says "The estimated annual exemption for future years is expected to be approximately the same as the 2025 exemption for all properties."
City area and population9,879 ha (6,585 ha land)
Schedule 201, General Statistics for 2024: 6,585 ha of land and 3,294 ha of water; the province's legal municipal boundary layer independently returns 9,878.8 ha. 2021 Census population 12,300; BC Stats estimate 13,536.
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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.
Prince Rupert is a city where the public sector and the Crown hold most of the ground and the private share is unusually small: just 27.0% of the dry land inside the municipal boundary, against 76% in Courtenay and 66% in Powell River. Widen the frame and the private share collapses to 7.0%, because the land around the city is Crown, conservancy and — at 9,153 hectares, 18.9% of the land in a 682 km² box — First Nation reserve, which is federal title set apart for a band rather than freehold. The named holders below are the ones a document establishes.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Port Authority Directory of Federal Real Property: eight Crown Owned properties in the municipality of Prince Rupert and two more in Port Edward, dominated by the 1,903.44 ha Harbour Boundary and 520.02 ha of Ridley Island. The register's "Crown Owned" flag is what distinguishes these from the 18 federal rows in and around the city held under "Lease or Licence", "Land Use Permit" or "Occupied Without an Interest". |
Government | 2,536.25 ha in the city, 2,909.0 ha with Port EdwardA |
| City of Prince Rupert The land-designation sample gives 456.8 ha of municipal parcels and 132.3 ha of local and regional park inside the boundary, 8.9% of the dry land. The City's audited statements carry land at a closing historical cost of $36,737,788 within $252,014,439 of net tangible capital assets, plus Watson Island, two landfills carrying asset retirement obligations and $462,658 of land inventory held for resale acquired in 2025 "for the purposes of transferring it to a third party as a condition of receiving a grant, in exchange for land and soil/rock disposal rights". |
Government | 589.1 ha of municipal parcels and park; $36,737,788 of land at costB |
| Government of Canada (Fisheries and Oceans, Transport, PSPC) Outside the Port Authority, the federal register records Fisheries and Oceans Canada as Crown Owned custodian of nine properties totalling 39.19 ha in the city — the Seal Cove marine station and MCTS site, Sourdough Bay, Rushbrook, Fairview Bay and Cow Bay — Transport Canada of 30.18 ha at Prince Rupert (Seal Cove) including a water lot with PID 025-537-695, and Public Services and Procurement Canada of 0.23 ha at 417 2nd Avenue West. |
Government | 69.6 ha Crown Owned in the cityA |
| Privately held land (owner not published) Derived from our 30 m grid sample of the province's Land Designations for Forest Management layer inside the legal boundary: 1,792.2 ha of Private Parcel. Over a 682 km² box around the city the private share is 3,397.5 ha, 7.0% of the land, against 34,103 ha of named Crown designations including 3,631.5 ha of Conservancy Area and 1,446.8 ha of Biodiversity, Mining and Tourism Area. The layer records the designation and never the owner's name, and is licensed "Access Only", so only the aggregate is published. |
Private company | 1,792.2 ha inside the city, 27.0% of its landA |
| First Nation reserve land (federal title) The land-designation sample returns 11.2 ha of First Nation Reserve inside the municipal boundary and 9,153.0 ha — 18.9% of the land — in a 682 km² box around it, the Metlakatla and Lax Kw'alaams reserves. Reserve land is held by the Crown in right of Canada and set apart for the use and benefit of a band; it is not freehold and no band is recorded here as a registered owner on that basis. The Lax Kw'alaams Band and Metlakatla First Nation separately hold equity in Trigon Pacific Terminals Ltd. according to the Port Authority's own page. |
Government | 11.2 ha inside the city; 9,153.0 ha in the surrounding boxB |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Port Authority and City of Prince Rupert | Mayor and Council, 2022–2026 term | A settled dispute over payments in lieu of taxes on federal port land inside the city The mayor's message in the City's audited 2025 Annual Report states that Council "secured a funding agreement for resource benefits in this term, and have resolved our PILT dispute with the Port Authority". The Schedule of Tax Revenues shows the result: the Port Authority's payment in lieu of taxes rose from $646,410 in 2024 to $2,133,013 in 2025 against a budget of $675,000. The report's strategic actions list also records "Continuing work on PILT appeals" and a long-term agreement on PILT "struck in 2026". This is a statement of fact published by the City. A |
| Prince Rupert Legacy Inc. | Wholly owned development corporation of the City of Prince Rupert | Two thirty-year leases of City land at $100 a year, not negotiated at arm's length Legacy's audited 2025 financial statements state in terms that "The Organization leases land from the City of Prince Rupert under two thirty-year land lease agreements that commenced in January and June 2017. Each lease has nominal consideration of $100 per annum and were not negotiated at arm's length." The City's annual report states the dividends it receives from Legacy financed the dam debt, supported water and sewer renewal and are paying to rehome Public Works. Both documents are published by the City; nothing here suggests any private interest. A |
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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.
Nobody publishes who builds housing in Prince Rupert, and the City's own account of the last seven years is of a municipality acting as land supplier rather than a builders' market. The mayor's message in the 2025 annual report states that "Since 2019, the City has provided the land to build 200 additional housing units that are either fully built or under construction", naming four projects. The developers it names are a First Nation business arm and non-profit societies; no private homebuilder appears in any document opened, and CMHC publishes no starts series broken out by builder for this city, so none is named.
| Name | Type | Units / figure |
|---|---|---|
| City of Prince Rupert (as land supplier) The mayor's message in the City's 2025 Annual Report states that since 2019 the City has provided the land to build 200 additional housing units fully built or under construction, "from across the spectrum of housing in the community", naming the development on 9th Avenue West, transitional housing on Park Avenue, a 70-unit development by Lax Kw'alaams Business Development, and a development under way on Bellis Road in Seal Cove. The report's housing objective is to deliver housing "when appropriate using municipally owned land". |
Government | land for 200 housing units since 2019A |
| Lax Kw'alaams Business Development Named in the City of Prince Rupert's 2025 Annual Report as the developer of a 70-unit development, one of the four projects the City counts towards the 200 units it has supplied land for since 2019. The report does not state who holds title to the completed building. |
Institution | 70 unitsA |
| Prince Rupert Indigenous Housing Society Named as a registered owner in the City's 2026–2027 permissive tax exemption schedule against roll 0040511.050, Lot A Plan BCP13581, with the exemption applying only to "area assessed as Residential/Not-for-profit". No unit count is published. |
Institution | $14,349.43 of 2026 municipal tax exemptedA |
| Cedar Village Housing Society Named as a registered owner in the City's 2026–2027 permissive exemption schedule against roll 0003411.000, Blk G3 Range 5 Plan 923 — the second largest non-profit housing exemption in the city, again limited to the area assessed as residential not-for-profit. |
Institution | $20,649.05 of 2026 municipal tax exemptedA |
| Prince Rupert Senior Citizen's Housing Society Named as a registered owner in the City's 2026–2027 permissive exemption schedule against roll 9000089.000, Lot 1 Range 5 Plan 4083; Kaien Senior Citizen's Housing is listed separately at $97.00 against Lots 7–10, Blk 10, Sec 6. |
Institution | $3,025.93 of 2026 municipal tax exemptedA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
The commercial and industrial property that matters in Prince Rupert is on land the Port Authority holds for the Crown, and the companies on it are tenants and operators rather than owners. That distinction is the whole story of the city's waterfront: DP World operates the container terminal it does not own, Trigon and Prince Rupert Grain run bulk terminals on Ridley Island, and the City's own development company holds Watson Island on a $100-a-year lease from the City. The business-and-other class is assessed at $312.96 million on the 2026 roll and 22 commercial transactions completed in 2025.
| Name | Type | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Port Authority Eight Crown Owned properties inside the municipality in the federal real property register, 2,536.25 ha, plus 372.76 ha in Port Edward. Its own 2025 consolidated statements carry land at $90,977 thousand, property and equipment at $510,922 thousand net book value and $197,770 thousand of construction in progress, and it paid the City $2,133,013 in lieu of taxes in 2025. Established 1 May 1999 under the Canada Marine Act; subsidiaries Prince Rupert Terminals Inc., Prince Rupert Port Logistics Holding Corp. and Prince Rupert Port Development Corporation. |
Government | 2,536 ha in the city; $510.9M of property and equipmentB |
| City of Prince Rupert and Prince Rupert Legacy Inc. The City owns Watson Island, acquired through tax sale, and leases the land to Prince Rupert Legacy Inc. under two thirty-year leases at $100 a year each. Legacy's own 2025 statements carry $1,816,230 of land, $4,135,296 of land improvements and $1,178,066 of leasehold improvements, and disclose that approximately 80% of its revenue came from a single tenant (2024: 75%). The City's annual report names six Watson Island tenants — Ambipar, SGS Canada, Ceva Logistics, Horizon North Camp, Pembina and CN Rail — and three proposed projects in feasibility. |
Government | Watson Island; $36.7M of land at cost; ~$5M a year of site revenueB |
| Trigon Pacific Terminals Ltd. The Port Authority's own terminal page states that "Trigon Pacific Terminals Ltd. is a privately-held entity by AMCI Group, Riverside Holdings and the Lax Kw'alaams Band and Metlakatla First Nation", that it loads metallurgical coal, thermal coal and petroleum coke at 9,000 tonnes per hour, unloads trains at 6,000 tonnes per hour and has annual shipping capacity of 18 million tonnes. The land under the terminal is Ridley Island, which the federal register records as Crown Owned with the Port Authority as custodian. |
Private equity | 18 million tonnes of annual shipping capacityA |
| Prince Rupert Grain Ltd. The Port Authority's own page states that "Prince Rupert Grain owns and operates Canada's largest grain terminal on the West Coast", opened in 1985, with annual export capacity in excess of seven million tonnes, the highest throughput rate of any grain terminal in Canada, eight shipping bins and three loading spouts loading up to 4,000 tonnes an hour. The terminal is on Ridley Island, which the Port Authority holds for the Crown. |
Private company | over 7 million tonnes of annual export capacityA |
| Drax Group plc "Now owned and operated by Drax Group", the Port Authority's page says of the Westview Wood Pellet Terminal, which opened in January 2014 as North America's first purpose-built wood pellet export facility. The 2.15 ha of "Westview Back up Lands" behind it is Crown Owned land with the Port Authority as custodian in the federal register. |
Public company | 1.25 million tonnes a yearB |
| Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. Named by the City as registered owner of the Canfisco site on Prince Rupert's waterfront in its 2026–2027 permissive exemption schedule, with $48,702.47 of estimated municipal exemption on 37.5% of the lands and improvements at Part of Lot 1, Waterfront Block G. The schedule's next line exempts the Prince Rupert Gymnastics Association on a portion leased from Canfisco, which confirms the company as landlord. It is the largest private commercial landholding any Prince Rupert document names. |
Family / private | waterfront Block G, DL 251A |
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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.
- Who owns Rupert Square Mall. The City publishes its address, opening year and tenant count but no owner; search results name a Langley development company whose own website serves an empty document and publishes no property list, so the attribution is not made.
- Who owns the parcel at Lot 1, Range 5, Plan PRP6855 that the City's 2026–2027 exemption schedule lists against "1279608 BC LTD (Municipal Public Works Facility)" with $38,677.45 of exemption. The City's annual report says the costs of the new public works project "inclusive of property purchase" are being covered by a Legacy dividend and grant funds, so the schedule may predate a transfer. No document opened states who holds title now.
- Who holds title to the completed 70-unit Lax Kw'alaams Business Development housing, the 9th Avenue West development, the Park Avenue transitional units or the Bellis Road project. The City states it supplied the land and does not say what it conveyed.
- What the Port Authority's land is worth. Its statements carry freehold land at $90,977 thousand of historical cost and do not depreciate or revalue it; port land is not on the municipal assessment roll and no market value is published.
- The leasehold structure on Ridley Island. The Port Authority's pages establish who operates each terminal and the federal register establishes that the Authority holds the land, but no document opened states the term, rent or expiry of any terminal lease.
- The City's ParcelMap BC parcel-level ownership split. No parcel-count split by owner type is published here; the land-designation grid sample is a designation sample, not a parcel census.
- No open dataset names the owner of any BC parcel; BC publishes no price-paid file; LOTR covers only land held through corporations, trusts and partnerships, not land held directly by an individual; and Prince Rupert is not among the 82 municipalities for which LTSA sells a tax certificate online.
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