Shawinigan, Quebec
Shawinigan is mostly a national park by area — the Crown in right of Canada holds 47,060 hectares, 61% of the city's assessed land, through nine exempt units — and in the city that electricity built, the law keeps the generating stations off the roll, leaving 39 parcels of network land assessed at $2.9 million.
5 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 22 sources · 4 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-03
Can you find out who owns it?
Ownership in Quebec is public and free, but one property at a time: the roll is a public document and the owner's name can be read for any address at the clerk's counter or from the municipal assessor. Shawinigan has contracted the making and upkeep of its roll to Servitech and offers no free online per-property lookup, only an ArcGIS map portal. The provincial bulk file describes all 22,870 Shawinigan assessment units (MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 count) 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 Données Québec states that re-identifying them is forbidden. Here the federal real-property register does the heavy lifting instead: it establishes that La Mauricie national park and the federal tax data centre on boulevard de Shawinigan-Sud are Crown Owned, and MAMH's Sommaire du rôle counts 47,060 hectares exempt in the name of the Crown in right of Canada. A sale price appears only in the Registre foncier du Québec, at 1,50 $ per document.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title search1,50 $ per document (Registre foncier du Québec consultation, in force 1 April 2026); the municipal assessment roll, which names the owner, is free but is not published online by Shawinigan
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- donneesquebec.ca / open.canada.ca — “Les renseignements concernant les cadastres, noms des propriétaires et leurs adresses postales sont caviardés. Afin d'obtenir ces informations, vous pouvez consulter une unité d'évaluation particulière sur le site Web de la municipalité ou au bureau du greffier. Il est interdit de réidentifier les renseignements personnels caviardés (noms et adresses des propriétaires).”
- centris.ca — ““Screen scraping,” “data mining” or any other activity, whether automated or not, intended, directly or indirectly, to collect, store, copy, reproduce, reorganize or manipulate the Content is also prohibited and constitutes a violation of copyright and these Terms.”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parc national de la Mauricie (the Shawinigan portion) chemin du Parc-National, Shawinigan 46,720.00 ha in the federal register |
Land | Crown in right of Canada (Parks Canada Agency) The Directory of Federal Real Property attributes "La Mauricie National Park", 15 km north-west of Shawinigan, to the city: custodian Parks Canada Agency, interest Crown Owned, 46,720.0003 ha with 95 buildings and 7,155 m² of floor area. MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 records 9 Shawinigan units exempt under art. 204(1.1°), la Couronne du chef du Canada, worth $137,171,200 over 47,060.31 ha — 61% of the city's assessed land, which only the park can account for. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Shawinigan. |
Government | —A |
| Hôpital du Centre-de-la-Mauricie 50 rue 119e, Shawinigan |
Institutional | Santé Québec The MSSS installations file names HÔPITAL DU CENTRE-DE-LA-MAURICIE at 50, 119e Rue, operated by Santé Québec Mauricie-et-Centre-du-Québec – Universitaire, public status, and records hospital, CHSLD and CLSC functions on the one site. MAMH's Sommaire du rôle puts Shawinigan's art. 204(14°) health-network class at $164,497,500 over 15 units. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Shawinigan. |
Government | —A |
| Cégep de Shawinigan 2263 avenue du Collège, Shawinigan |
Institutional | Cégep de Shawinigan The education ministry's open collegial file gives "Cégep de Shawinigan, 2263, avenue du Collège, Shawinigan … Cégep, Public" — the only CEGEP it lists in the city — and the CNETE technology-transfer centre at the same address. MAMH's Sommaire du rôle records 2 Shawinigan units worth $48,647,500 under art. 204(13°) with art. 255 al. 3, the CEGEP-and-university line, which is consistent with the Cégep holding its campus; the roll unit itself was not read. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Shawinigan. |
Institution | —B |
| Centre de données fiscales (federal tax data centre) 4695 boulevard de Shawinigan-Sud, Shawinigan 12,362 m² of floor area on 10.22 ha in the federal register |
Office | Crown in right of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada) The Directory of Federal Real Property lists "Site GC - Centre de données fiscales, 4695 Boul. de Shawinigan-sud, Lot 3 177 048", custodian Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada, interest Crown Owned, 10.2185 ha, one building of 12,362 m². PSPC also leases a 0.35 ha parking lot at 4615 and a 3.77 ha site at 4670 boulevard de Shawinigan-Sud. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Shawinigan. |
Government | —A |
| Military facility site (Défense nationale) Shawinigan (the federal register gives no street address) 2.05 ha in the federal register |
Institutional | Crown in right of Canada (Department of National Defence) The Directory of Federal Real Property lists a "Site d'emplacement militaire" in Shawinigan, custodian Défense nationale, interest Crown Owned, land area 2.0497 ha. Its per-property roll values were dropped on 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Shawinigan. |
Government | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Shawinigan has no quarterly roll file on MAMH's own host (code 36033 is absent from MAMH's indexRole.csv and www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM36033.xml returns 404), so this section rests on MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 workbook rather than on a unit-by-unit parse: units 22,870, dwellings 29,122, other premises 2,046, land $1,577,112,600, buildings $5,571,408,700, property $7,148,521,300, taxable $6,302,581,200, non-taxable $845,940,100. The roll's market-conditions reference date is 1 July 2023.
Total assessed value, Ville de Shawinigan$7,148,521,300 CAD
MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, code 200013, over 22,870 assessment units with 29,122 dwellings and 2,046 other premises. Land is $1,577,112,600 of it, 22%. Shawinigan has 21% more assessment units than Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (18,926) and two-thirds of its assessed value ($10,763,830,900).
Share of assessed value that is tax-exempt11.8% ($845,940,100)
MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, code 200019. By owner class: the Crown in right of Canada $137,171,200 over 9 units covering 47,060.31 ha; primary and secondary schools $178,884,500 over 29; the health network and non-profit childcare $164,497,500 over 15; the local municipality $212,013,500 over 694 units covering 2,713.70 ha; the CEGEP $48,647,500; recognised non-profits under s. 243.3 $40,027,000 over 32; religious fabriques $22,563,800 over 19; cemeteries $4,866,300 over 13.
Network land on the roll$2,912,700 over 39 units
MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, codes 600064-600066: 39 units and $2,912,700 of land exempt under s. 204(7°) across 747.85 ha. Art. 204(7°) exempts the land under a construction forming part of a network under arts. 66-68 "sauf si cette construction est portée au rôle", and art. 68 keeps dams and generating stations off the roll. In the city that electricity built, the generating plant is substantially off the assessment roll by statute.
Cottage stock500 chalets, $209,119,000
MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, line 11 "Chalets, maisons de villégiature": 500 taxable units worth $209,119,000 on 924.77 ha — Shawinigan is partly a cottage market.
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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.
Shawinigan is the extreme case of public concentration in this batch: 772.4 square kilometres of assessed land area, of which the Crown in right of Canada holds 470.6 and the municipality 27.1 (MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026). Measured by area the city is mostly a national park; measured by value it is mostly housing — residential units carry $5.29 billion, 74% of the roll.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Crown in right of Canada MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026: 9 units exempt under s. 204(1.1°) covering 470,603,072 m2 — 61% of the city's whole assessed land area. The Directory of Federal Real Property names the custodians: Agence Parcs Canada for La Mauricie, Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada for the tax data centre and three further Shawinigan sites, Défense nationale for the 2.05 ha military site, and Postes Canada for Crown-owned post offices at 395 avenue de la Station (3,238 m2), 696 5e avenue in Grand-Mère and 1021 41e avenue at Lac-à-la-Tortue. |
Government | 47,060.31 ha, $137,171,200 assessedA |
| Ville de Shawinigan MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026: 694 units exempt under s. 204(3°) — an immovable entered in the name of a local municipality in its own territory — covering 27,137,042 m2. |
Government | 2,713.70 ha, $212,013,500 assessedA |
| Centre de services scolaire de l'Énergie MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026 gives primary and secondary schools $178,884,500 over 29 units covering 55.16 ha. The education ministry's building file names 31 school buildings in Shawinigan and records all but two as "Propriété de la CS". |
Institution | $178,884,500 assessed across 29 exempt unitsA |
| A network operator under arts. 66-68 of the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026: 39 units exempt under s. 204(7°) — land forming the site of a construction belonging to an electricity, gas or telecommunications network — covering 7,478,542 m2. Hydro-Québec's own open installations file lists generating stations named "Shawinigan" (in service since 1 January 1911) and "Grand-Mère" (1915) in the Mauricie. Which legal person holds which of these 39 parcels is not established, and the parcels were not geocoded against the municipal boundary. |
Government | 747.85 ha of exempt land, $2,912,700B |
| Forestry and unexploited forest holdings (owners not established) MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026: the natural-resources class covers 88,126,448 m2 of land and $102,571,700 of taxable value. Within it, line 83 "exploitation forestière" counts 120 units worth $29,905,000 on 3,923.76 ha, and line 9220 unexploited forest another 162 units on 3,987.83 ha. These are the largest private landholdings in the city by area and the open roll names none of their owners. |
Private company | 8,812.64 ha, $102,571,700 assessedA |
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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.
Quebec publishes no builder league table; it publishes the licence register, and in Quebec a general contractor may only build a new home covered by the guarantee plan if its RBQ licence carries subcategory 1.1.1. Sixteen licence holders registered in Shawinigan carry it, and eight of those licences were issued since 2021 — a faster renewal of the builder base than in any other city in this batch. The caveat that matters: the register gives the licensee's registered address, not where the homes were built. Several holders are numbered companies, which the record names as the register names them.
| Name | Type | Licensed since |
|---|---|---|
| Construction R. Cloutier inc. RBQ licence 1630-0584-46, active, general contractor with subcategories 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 — new residential buildings covered by a guarantee plan, classes I and II — registered in Shawinigan since 27 March 1984, the oldest new-home licence in the city. |
Private company | 1984A |
| Construction Cha-Ric Inc. RBQ licence 2748-8030-43, active, subcategories 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, registered in Shawinigan since 4 April 1990. |
Private company | 1990A |
| M2 Entrepreneur Général inc. RBQ licence 5674-6605-01, active, subcategories 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, registered in Shawinigan since 25 September 2013. |
Private company | 2013A |
| Construction Le Campagnard inc. RBQ licence 5825-6694-01, active, subcategories 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, registered in Shawinigan since 2 October 2023 — one of eight Shawinigan new-home licences issued since 2021, alongside Construction Lafontaine & Trahan inc. (2021), 9464-0562 Québec inc. (2022), Construction Fred Massicotte inc. (2023), Construction RH associés inc. (2023), 9495-1910 Québec inc. (2023) and Construction Bryan Parke inc. (2024). |
Private company | 2023A |
| Constructions Daniel Hardy (2011) inc. RBQ licence 8359-6213-01, active, subcategory 1.1.1 only (class I new residential covered by the guarantee plan), registered in Shawinigan since 4 August 2008. |
Private company | 2008A |
| Centre de services scolaire de l'Énergie (as the city's other big builder) Included because in Shawinigan the institutional builder is the one that keeps building: the education ministry's open building file lists 31 school-service-centre buildings inside the city, all but two recorded as "Propriété de la CS", from École secondaire des Chutes (34,334 m2, 1964) and École secondaire Val-Mauricie (21,468 m2, 1962) down to a 572 m2 pavilion. The two exceptions are leased: the Centre d'entrepreneuriat de Shawinigan at 1250 avenue de la Station and the annexe at 1133 rue Notre-Dame. |
Institution | 31 buildings owned in ShawiniganA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Shawinigan's commercial stock is spread across three former towns and no single landlord dominates it; MAMH's Sommaire du rôle puts the city's line 50 "centres et immeubles commerciaux" at 107 units worth $106,876,000. The per-property values an earlier build took from the bulk roll — the department stores on boulevard Royal and rue Trudel, Plaza de la Mauricie's fall in value and its 2022 title date — were dropped on 2026-10-10 because MAMH publishes no quarterly roll file for Shawinigan.
| Name | Type | Floor area / premises |
|---|---|---|
| Groupe MACH Inc. MACH's own portfolio pages list Plaza de la Mauricie among its shopping centres, at 223,707 sq ft, and Carrefour Saint-Georges at 309,799 sq ft. A portfolio page is a statement about the portfolio, not a deed, and the open roll redacts the registered owner. |
Private company | 223,707 sq ft (Plaza de la Mauricie)B |
| Centre commercial La Promenade, 444 5e Rue de la Pointe (owner not established) The Directory of Federal Real Property confirms the federal government is a tenant here, not an owner: "Site Centre commercial La Promenade, 444 5e Rue", custodian Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada, interest "Bail ou Permission", 3,293 m². Who owns the centre is not established. |
Private company | 3,293 m² leased to the federal governmentA |
| Vigi Santé Ltée The MSSS installations file gives the CHSLD at 5000, avenue Albert-Tessier as operated by Vigi Santé Ltée with private status — one of only two privately run health installations in the city. Named here as an operator; the registered owner is not established. |
Private company | Private CHSLD operator, 5000 avenue Albert-TessierB |
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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.
- Whether the 2009 amphitheatre the City operates as the Centre Gervais Auto is entered in the City's name, and at which civic address; the city's own newsroom treats it as a municipal facility, one third-party reference gives 1200 avenue des Cèdres, and the roll unit an earlier build relied on was dropped with the bulk file.
- Which legal person holds the 39 parcels exempt under s. 204(7°). The Sommaire establishes the class — a person operating a network under arts. 66-68 — not the name.
- Whether the generating stations Hydro-Québec names "Shawinigan" and "Grand-Mère" lie inside the city's legal boundary. Their coordinates are consistent with it but no boundary check was run.
- Who owns Plaza de la Mauricie (listed by Groupe MACH), the department stores on boulevard Royal and rue Trudel, and Centre commercial La Promenade at 444 5e Rue, where the federal government is a tenant.
- Whether Shawinigan's ArcGIS map portal exposes assessment data per parcel; the hub page was identified but not interrogated, and the city links no ImmoNet-style roll lookup.
- Owner names are redacted from the provincial bulk roll and the licence forbids re-identifying them, so no lawful bulk owner join exists in Quebec.
- Re-sourced 2026-10-10: MAMH publishes no quarterly roll for Shawinigan (code 36033 is not in www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/indexRole.csv and RM36033.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 classes rest on MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 and are unchanged. Dropped because they could only be had from the bulk roll: every per-property value (the park's $78,421,600, the hospital, the CEGEP, the tax centre, the military site), the 251-dwelling seniors' tower at 100 9e Rue de la Pointe and its November 2024 title date, the amphitheatre at 1 rue Jacques-Plante and the Cité de l'énergie as owner-established entries, the top-10/top-100 shares (6.07%/15.94%), the 1,636 rental rooms, the two CUBF 4819 energy units ($27,765,500), dwellings completed 2020-2024, the largest City, school and forestry parcels, and the commercial units at 3103-3286 and 1600 boulevard Royal, 1555 and 1440-1640 rue Trudel. Corrected: 21% more units than Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (was 22%); the claim that Shawinigan's 22% land share is the lowest in the batch is dropped (Baie-Comeau's is 15%).
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Sources
- Rôles d'évaluation foncière du Québec — the 1,140 municipal XML files, owner names and mailing addresses redacted, with the re-identification ban — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) / Données Québec · openA
- Property assessment roll of Québec — English dataset record stating the redaction and the re-identification ban — Government and Municipalities of Québec via Open Government Portal · openA
- Répertoire des renseignements prescrits du rôle d'évaluation foncière, version 2.5 — the field dictionary for RL0101 to RL0507 — MAMH via Données Québec · openA
- Index de la mise à jour trimestrielle des rôles d'évaluation foncière (indexRole.csv) — MAMH's list of 1,036 quarterly roll files; Shawinigan (36033) is not among them — MAMH · 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; 3° a local municipality in its own territory; 4° a local municipality outside its territory; 5° a Communauté, an MRC or a mandatary of one; 7° land under a utility network under arts. 66-68; 8° a fabrique, episcopal corporation or church; 9° a cemetery; 10° a body recognised under s. 243.3; 13° a school service centre, CEGEP or university establishment; 14° Santé Québec, a Schedule II establishment, an authorised private establishment or a non-profit childcare centre; 19° a recognised natural reserve — Légis Québec / Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière — the MAMH's own per-municipality summary workbook for fiscal 2026 (codes 200001 units, 200002 dwellings, 200004 other premises, 200011-200013 total land/building/property value, 200014-200016 taxable, 200017-200019 non-taxable, 600001-600099 by fiscal disposition, 300001-300441 by use category) — MAMH — Données statistiques sur l'évaluation foncière · openA
- Charte des codes du Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière 2026 — the code chart that names every column of the summary — MAMH · openA
- Sommaire — Tarification des produits et services du registre foncier et du cadastre, in force 1 April 2026 ("CONSULTATION … Par document 1,50 $") — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF) · openA
- Unités d'évaluation foncière — used only as the published CUBF code→label dictionary (CODE_UTILISATION / LIBELLE_UTILISATION) — Ville de Montréal (Données Montréal) · openA
- Manuel d'évaluation foncière du Québec 2026, partie 2 — Annexe 2C.1 liste numérique des codes d'utilisation des biens-fonds, plus the générique and lien code tables used to rebuild each civic address from RL0101 — MAMH · openA
- Centris — terms of use and privacy policy — Centris (Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) · openA
- Localisation des établissements d'enseignement du réseau scolaire au Québec — Immeubles publics and Écoles publiques tables, which carry STAT_PROP_IMM ("Propriété de la CS" / "Location"), gross floor area, year built and the owning centre de services scolaire against each civic address — Ministère de l'Éducation et Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur via Données Québec · openA
- Fichiers cartographiques M02 des installations et établissements — Liste des installations, giving each installation's name, civic address, operating établissement and public/private status — Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux via Données Québec · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — open data extract (19,973 properties), naming the custodian and distinguishing Crown Owned from Lease or Licence — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Registre des détenteurs de licences actives de la Régie du bâtiment du Québec (931,157 rows), with municipality, legal name, category and subcategories — Régie du bâtiment du Québec via Données Québec · openA
- Sous-catégories d'entrepreneur général — "1.1.1 - Entrepreneur en bâtiments résidentiels neufs visés à un plan de garantie, classe I", "1.1.2 … classe II", "1.2 - Entrepreneur en petits bâtiments", "1.3 - Entrepreneur en bâtiments de tout genre" — Régie du bâtiment du Québec · openA
- Évaluation d'une propriété — "Le mandat de confection et de tenue à jour des rôles d'évaluation à Shawinigan a été confié à la firme Servitech", with Servitech's Shawinigan address and no online per-property lookup offered — Ville de Shawinigan · openA
- À propos de la Cité de l'énergie — the 1985 founding of the "corporation du Centre d'Interprétation Industriel du Centre de la Mauricie Inc.", the official opening on 21 June 1997 and the mission of the museum complex — La Cité de l'énergie · openA
- Nous joindre — "La Cité de l'Énergie, 1000 avenue Melville, C.P. 156, Shawinigan (Québec) G9N 6T9" — La Cité de l'énergie · openA
- Débits et apports naturels aux installations d'Hydro-Québec — the utility's own list of its centrales et ouvrages, including "Shawinigan" (in service 1911-01-01) and "Grand-Mère" (1915-01-01) in the Mauricie region — Hydro-Québec · openA
- Carrefour Saint-Georges and Plaza de la Mauricie property pages — Groupe MACH's own portfolio listings, with address, floor area, floors and parking for each centre — Groupe MACH Inc. · openA
- Le point de distribution d'eau au Centre Gervais Auto en opération dès mardi matin — the city's own newsroom treating the Centre Gervais Auto as a municipal facility — Ville de Shawinigan · openA