Sept-Îles, Quebec
Sept-Îles' $4.81 billion roll is 17% exempt, and the land that matters belongs to three holders: a five-nation aluminium consortium on the Pointe-Noire headland, the rail-and-port company the Quebec government bought there in 2016, and the Crown in right of Canada, whose airport and port authority alone hold more than 1,400 hectares.
4 buildings · 4 with an owner established · 17 sources · 2 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Ownership in Quebec is public but retail: anyone may look up one property at a time, free, on the municipality's own roll, and a sale price costs 1,50 $ per document at the Registre foncier du Québec. The province's bulk roll describes every assessment unit — for Sept-Îles 12,061 of them, per MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 — with land value, building value, lot area, storeys, year built, dwellings, non-residential premises and the statutory paragraph behind any tax exemption — but with the owner's name and mailing address cut out and re-identification expressly forbidden, so there is no lawful bulk owner join in this province. The roll in force is the 2025-2026-2027 triennial, prepared for the City by a private firm, Évimbec, against market conditions as at 1 July 2023. Two further statutes matter more here than anywhere else in this batch: art. 65(1°) of the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale keeps industrial machinery off the roll entirely, so a smelter appears only as its land and its shells.
- donneesquebec.ca (Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec) — “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aluminerie Alouette — primary aluminium smelter 400 chemin de la Pointe-Noire, Sept-Îles |
Industrial | Aluminerie Alouette Inc. held on behalf of a five-member consortium: Rio Tinto 40%, AMAG Austria Metall 20%, Hydro Aluminium 20%, Marubeni 13.33%, Investissement Québec 6.67% Alouette's own contact page gives its address as 400 chemin de la Pointe-Noire and says it produces primary aluminium "on behalf of a consortium of five shareholders": Rio Tinto 40%, AMAG Austria Metall 20%, Hydro Aluminium 20%, Marubeni 13.33% and Investissement Québec 6.67%. Under art. 65(1°) of the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale the potlines themselves are not on the roll, so whatever the smelter is assessed at is land and building shells only. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Sept-Îles. |
Private company | —B |
| Pointe-Noire rail and port terminal 1505 chemin de la Pointe-Noire, Sept-Îles |
Industrial | Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire s.e.c. SFP Pointe-Noire's own site gives 1505, chemin de la Pointe-Noire as its address and states "Depuis son acquisition par le gouvernement du Québec en 2016" and "nous détenons quelque 500 ha de terrains prêts pour le développement industriel". It is a limited partnership in public hands. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Sept-Îles. |
Government | —B |
| Port of Sept-Îles — Pointe-Noire sector chemin de la Pointe-Noire, Sept-Îles 487.36 ha of Crown-owned port land at Pointe-Noire in the federal register |
Industrial | The Crown in right of Canada — custodian: Sept-Îles Port Authority The Directory of Federal Real Property lists the Sept-Îles Port Authority, a Crown corporation, with "Pointe Noire, Chemin Pointe Noire" at 487.3646 ha and "Port of Sept-Îles; Town Sector, 1 Quai Mgr-Blanche" at 45.5632 ha, both Crown Owned. Art. 204(1.1°) exempts an immovable "inscrite au nom de la Couronne du chef du Canada ou d'un mandataire de celle-ci"; MAMH's Sommaire du rôle puts Sept-Îles' par. 1.1 exempt stock at $65,286,600 over 29 units and a further $27,081,900 over 47 units under art. 208. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Sept-Îles. |
Government | —A |
| Sept-Îles Airport 1000 boulevard Laure, Sept-Îles 922.44 ha in the federal register; 9,694 m² of federal floor area in 8 buildings |
Institutional | The Crown in right of Canada — custodian: Transport Canada The Directory of Federal Real Property records "Sept-Iles Airport, 1000, boul. Laure E." as held by Transport Canada, Crown Owned, 922.4363 ha, with 9,694 m² of floor area in 8 buildings — the largest single land holding in the city after Pointe-Noire. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Sept-Îles. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Sept-Îles has no quarterly roll file on MAMH's own host (it is absent from MAMH's indexRole.csv and www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM97007.xml returns 404), so this section rests on MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 workbook rather than on a unit-by-unit parse. The Sommaire gives 12,061 units, $4,806,444,400 in all and $3,980,363,600 taxable, and $3,980,363,600 × 1.09 — the facteur de redressement MAMH publishes as CSALX02163 — is $4,338,596,324, exactly the uniformised taxable value MAMH publishes as CIALX02147. The roll's market-conditions reference date is 1 July 2023.
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 answer to 'who owns Sept-Îles' is a split between one multinational consortium, one Quebec state company, the Crown in right of Canada and the City itself, with the school and health networks the largest exempt holders after the City.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminerie Alouette Inc. Held on behalf of Rio Tinto (40%), AMAG Austria Metall (20%), Hydro Aluminium (20%), Marubeni (13.33%) and Investissement Québec (6.67%) per the company's own contact page. |
Private company | The smelter at 400 chemin de la Pointe-NoireB |
| Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire s.e.c. Its own site states it was acquired by the Government of Quebec in 2016 and that it holds "quelque 500 ha de terrains prêts pour le développement industriel". |
Government | About 500 ha ready for industrial development, by its own accountB |
| The Crown in right of Canada Art. 204(1.1°) exempts $65,286,600 across 29 Sept-Îles units and art. 208 a further $27,081,900 across 47 (Sommaire du rôle); MAMH's RFU puts the federal share of the roll at $63,268,800. The Directory of Federal Real Property records the airport (922.44 ha), the Sept-Îles Port Authority's Pointe-Noire and town-sector holdings (532.93 ha), the PSPC office at 701 boulevard Laure (6,483 m², Crown Owned), HMCS Jolliet and the RCMP detachment, all Crown Owned. |
Government | $63,268,800 on the roll; 25 properties, 1,520+ haA |
| Ville de Sept-Îles The largest holder by number of assessment units, all exempt under art. 204(3°) per the Sommaire du rôle's par. 3° line. |
Government | $210,470,400 over 1,057 unitsA |
| Quebec school network (a school service centre, CEGEP or university establishment) The largest exempt class in the city after the City itself, 5.2% of the roll: $176,161,300 over 16 units under art. 204(13°) with art. 255 al. 4 (schools) and $73,977,400 over 4 units under art. 255 al. 3 (CEGEPs and universities), per the Sommaire du rôle. The Sommaire does not say which body holds which. |
Institution | $250,138,700 over 20 unitsA |
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.
MAMH's Sommaire du rôle counts 13,236 dwellings across Sept-Îles' 12,061 assessment units, and only one unit in the whole city is exempt under art. 204(5°) as held by a mandatary of the municipality ($1,128,400). The unit-level detail an earlier build took from the bulk roll — the largest apartment holdings, their 2022 title dates, the units built since 2019 — was dropped on 2026-10-10 because MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Sept-Îles and the only bulk copy sits on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. Quebec publishes no builder league table and no named Sept-Îles developer could be established from a source that opened.
| Name | Type | Dwellings |
|---|---|---|
| Ville de Sept-Îles Included because the City is by unit count the largest property owner in Sept-Îles. Its holdings are exempt under art. 204(3°) — an immovable entered in the name of a local municipality and situated in its own territory — per the Sommaire du rôle's par. 3° line (1,057 units, $210,470,400). |
Government | $210,470,400 over 1,057 unitsA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Retail in Sept-Îles is one enclosed regional centre, Galeries Montagnaises on boulevard Laure, and a strip of boxes along the same boulevard. Nothing here appears in a REIT's property schedule and the open roll names none of the owners; the per-property values an earlier build took from the bulk roll were dropped on 2026-10-10 because MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Sept-Îles and the only bulk copy sits on a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling.
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Who owns the iron-ore bulk terminal on rue Retty. The Iron Ore Company of Canada states on its own site that its Sept-Îles port facilities are company-owned, but no document opened gives IOC's civic address.
- Who owns Galeries Montagnaises on boulevard Laure, the city's only enclosed regional shopping centre.
- Whether the State or the Société québécoise des infrastructures holds the detention centre at 65 boulevard Vigneault; art. 204(1°) covers both.
- Whether the 2025-2026-2027 roll's deposit date is 15 September or 15 October 2024; neither MAMH's Sommaire nor the City's page states it.
- Owner names are redacted from the provincial bulk roll and the licence forbids re-identifying them, so no lawful bulk owner join exists anywhere in Quebec.
- Re-sourced 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll for Sept-Îles (code 97007 is not in www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/indexRole.csv and RM97007.xml returns 404), so nothing could be recomputed from www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM<code>.xml; the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. City-wide totals and exempt classes now rest on MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 workbook (they match the earlier totals exactly; the exempt-class split differs because the Sommaire classes by art. 204/208/255 line rather than by RL0504 citation — e.g. 1.1° $65,286,600 over 29 units plus art. 208 $27,081,900, was $91,504,800 over 81 units; health $119,128,400 over 11 units, was $73,769,000 over 2). Every per-property value from the bulk roll was dropped: the Alouette, SFP Pointe-Noire, 1 rue Retty, multi-user dock, airport, detention centre, polyvalente, hospital and 470-488 avenue Arnaud values, the top-10/top-100 concentration (27.40%/40.74%), the $879M Pointe-Noire share, the 126 units built 2019-2025, the 252-dwelling avenue Noël complex, Galeries Montagnaises, 80 Pointe aux Basques and the boulevard Laure boxes.
Sources
- Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec — the 1,140 municipal XML files, with "les cadastres, noms des propriétaires et leurs adresses postales" redacted and re-identification expressly forbidden — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) / Données Québec · openA
- Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière, exercice 2026 — MAMH's per-municipality workbook; Sept-Îles row 97007: 200001 = 12,061 units, 200002 = 13,236 dwellings, 200004 = 1,184 other premises, 200013 = $4,806,444,400, 200016 = $3,980,363,600 taxable, 200019 = $826,080,800 non-taxable, 300441 = 234,489,226 m² of land, and 600004-600099 the non-taxable value by art. 204 paragraph — MAMH — Données statistiques sur l'évaluation foncière · openA
- Loi sur la fiscalité municipale (chapitre F-2.1) — art. 204 (the exemption paragraphs the roll cites in RL0504: 1° l'État or the Société québécoise des infrastructures; 1.1° "la Couronne du chef du Canada ou d'un mandataire de celle-ci"; 3° a local municipality in its own territory; 5° a mandatary of a municipality or MRC; 8° a fabrique, religious institution or incorporated Church using the immovable for public worship; 10° a body recognised under s. 243.3; 13° a school service centre, CEGEP or university establishment; 14°a Santé Québec or a Schedule II health establishment), and arts. 65, 66 and 68 on what is NOT entered on the roll — Légis Québec / Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Sommaire — Tarification des produits et services du registre foncier et du cadastre, "En vigueur à compter du 1er avril 2026": CONSULTATION / Documents (index des immeubles, acte, plan cadastral, etc.) — "Par document 1,50 $" — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF) · openA
- Richesse foncière uniformisée 2026 — RFU-2026.csv and its DescriptionPoste file. CSALX02163 is the "Sommaire de rôle - Facteur de redressement" and CIALX02147 the uniformised value of taxable immovables, i.e. the Sommaire du rôle's taxable total multiplied by that factor; the file also splits the non-taxable classes (federal, Quebec, SQI, health network, CEGEPs and universities, schools) — MAMH via Données Québec · openA
- Profil financier des municipalités 2024-2025, données de 2025 (PF-2024-2025.csv) — population and uniformised assessment by class per municipality — MAMH via Données Québec · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property (dfrp-rbif.zip, 19,973 properties) — names the custodian and distinguishes "Crown Owned" from "Lease or Licence", with land area, floor area and building count per parcel — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · 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 — "No Linking, Framing, Mirroring, Scraping or Data Mining" — Centris (Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) · openA
- Évaluation foncière — "la Ville confie à la firme Évimbec le mandat de procéder à l'évaluation des propriétés situées sur son territoire"; roll values reflect market conditions "au 1er juillet de l'année qui précède le dépôt du rôle" and hold "pour la durée d'un rôle triennal (3 ans)" — Ville de Sept-Îles · openA
- Contact us — "Aluminerie Alouette Inc. 400 chemin de la Pointe-Noire P.O. Box 1650 Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada G4R 5M9"; "a primary aluminum producer of ingots and sows on behalf of a consortium of five shareholders: AMAG Austria Metall AG (Austria, 20%), Hydro Aluminium (Norway, 20%), Investissement Québec (Canada, 6.67%), Marubeni (Japan, 13.33%), and Rio Tinto (Canada, 40%)" — Aluminerie Alouette · openA
- Nous joindre — "1505, chemin de la Pointe-Noire, Sept-Îles (Québec) G4R 4L4" — Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire s.e.c. · openA
- Qui sommes-nous? — "Depuis son acquisition par le gouvernement du Québec en 2016, la SFP Pointe-Noire a connu une croissance rapide"; "nous détenons quelque 500 ha de terrains prêts pour le développement industriel"; "plus de 280 employés locaux" and more than 10 Mt of ore handled a year — Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire s.e.c. · openA
- Trouver un établissement de détention — "Établissement de détention de Sept-Îles, 65, boulevard Vigneault, Case postale 818, Sept-Îles (Québec) G4R 4L2" — Gouvernement du Québec (quebec.ca) · openA
- Contact us / About — "our operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City and the wholly-owned 418 km railroad, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles" — Iron Ore Company of Canada (Rio Tinto IOC) · openA
- Index de la mise à jour trimestrielle des rôles d'évaluation foncière (indexRole.csv) — lists 1,036 quarterly roll files; Sept-Îles (97007) is not among them — MAMH · openA
- Charte des codes du Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière 2026 — names each code (600004-600006 par. 1.1; 600022-600024 par. 13° with art. 255 al. 3; 600034-600036 par. 13° with art. 255 al. 4; 600049-600051 par. 3°; 600093-600095 art. 208 al. 1; 300441 total land area) — MAMH · openA