Stittsville, Ontario
Stittsville is not a municipality and never has been a city: Canada's names authority classifies it as an unincorporated place, the former Township of Goulbourn that contained it was dissolved into the City of Ottawa in 2001, and today it is Ottawa's Ward 6 — 25.66 square kilometres west of Kanata, governed, assessed and billed entirely by Ottawa. It is also the thinnest property record in this batch, and that is the finding rather than a gap: the whole federal footprint inside the ward is three Canada Post buildings on 0.62 of a hectare, two owned and one rented, and the only substantial non-residential buildings whose ownership any open source establishes are eleven the City of Ottawa holds itself. Everything else is houses, and Ontario sells their owners one at a time for $37.10.
7 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 11 sources · 7 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Stittsville is a ward of the City of Ottawa, not a municipality. Natural Resources Canada's geographical names database records it with the concise code UNP — an unincorporated place — and the generic code 202, "a named residential area adjacent to a city, town or village", in Carleton County. The former municipality that contained it, the Township of Goulbourn, appears on the City of Ottawa's own Former Municipalities layer as one of the eleven pre-2001 municipalities amalgamated into the present city; the modern Ward 6 Stittsville boundary is drawn on a separate City layer and does not coincide with Goulbourn's — 121 of its 198 boundary vertices fall inside the old township and the rest extend toward Kanata. The City of Ottawa governs it, MPAC assesses it and Ottawa bills it; there is no Stittsville return, levy or assessment figure anywhere in Ontario's published municipal finances. Ownership follows the provincial rule: ServiceOntario states the land registry "contains the official records of property ownership and other legal interests such as mortgages, transfers and leases" and "covers more than 7.4 million parcels of land in the province", that services "are only available online", and that on OnLand "You can do a self-search for a fee" — $37.10 per parcel register from 2 November 2026, with no bulk extract at any price, Teraview restricted to licensed users, MPAC's values behind three log-in-only products and still pegged to 1 January 2016, and no price-paid file in Ontario at all.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CardelRec Recreation Complex (Goulbourn) 1500 Shea Road, Ottawa (Stittsville) |
Civic | City of Ottawa The largest single building in Stittsville in the City of Ottawa's own City Facilities inventory, carried five times over in the Recreation layer for its separate building elements under the business entity "CardelRec Recreation Complex (Goulbourn)" at 1500 Shea Rd. The naming rights are Cardel's, a builder; the facility itself is the City's. The inventory records facilities the City holds and operates rather than registered title, and Ontario would charge $37.10 per PIN to confirm the latter. No floor area, construction cost or assessed value is published for it. |
Government | —A |
| Johnny Leroux Stittsville Community Arena and Alexander Grove Park 10 Warner-Colpitts Lane, Ottawa (Stittsville) |
Civic | City of Ottawa City of Ottawa City Facilities inventory, General Purpose and Recreation layers: building type "Arena", business entity "Alexander Grove Park", with a separate washroom and canteen comfort station at the same address. The arena is the community's one piece of significant civic infrastructure apart from the recreation complex. Same caveat: the inventory is a facilities register, not a title register. |
Government | —A |
| Ottawa Police Service West Division Patrol Facility 211 Huntmar Drive, Ottawa (Stittsville) |
Institutional | City of Ottawa City of Ottawa City Facilities inventory, Protective Services layer, building type "Police Station". It sits at the Huntmar Drive edge of Ward 6 on the Kanata boundary and is the only police facility inside the ward. Two fire stations are also inside it — Station 81 Stittsville with a paramedic post at 1643 Stittsville Main Street and Station 46 Kanata West at 34 Iber Road. |
Government | —A |
| Ottawa Public Library Stittsville Branch 1637 Stittsville Main Street, Ottawa (Stittsville) |
Civic | City of Ottawa City of Ottawa City Facilities inventory, Arts and Culture layer, building type "Public Library", business entity "Library: Stittsville". Stittsville Main Street carries three of the eleven City buildings in the ward — the library at 1637, the fire station at 1643 and the Stittsville Food Cupboard storage facility at 1631 — which is a fair measure of how small the non-residential core of the community is. |
Government | —A |
| Canada Post Iber Road Depot 86 Iber Road, Ottawa (Stittsville) 1,411 m² on 0.40 ha |
Industrial | Canada Post Corporation Directory of Federal Real Property, property 21216, "Iber Road Depot Stittsville ON", 86 Iber Rd, primary use Commercial Retail, interest type Crown Owned, one building, 1,411 m² of floor space on 0.4 ha. It is the largest federally owned building in Stittsville by floor area and one of only two federal properties in the ward that Canada actually owns. |
Government | —A |
| Stittsville Post Office 1606 Main Street, Ottawa (Stittsville) K2S 1A0 205.2 m² on 0.22 ha |
Retail | Canada Post Corporation Directory of Federal Real Property, property 61370, interest type Crown Owned, one building, 205.2 m² on 0.2155 ha. The post office and the Iber Road depot are the entire Crown-owned federal estate in Stittsville: 0.6155 ha and 1,616 m² between them, 0.024 per cent of the ward's land. |
Government | —A |
| Canada Post Delivery Centre Stittsville 200 Iber Road, Ottawa (Stittsville) 803 m² |
Industrial | Not established a paid title search would answer it Directory of Federal Real Property, property 21240, "Delivery Center Stittsville", 200 Iber Road, one building, 803 m² of floor space — and interest type "Lease or Licence". The register therefore establishes that Canada occupies this building and does not own it. The landlord is not named in any open source and would cost $37.10 per PIN to establish from the parcel register. It is the only federal lease in the ward. |
Private company | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
There is no Stittsville figure for anything financial, and this section says so rather than borrowing Ottawa's. The Financial Information Return is filed by the municipality and the municipality is the City of Ottawa; MPAC publishes no roll; Ontario publishes no price-paid file. What can be measured at the ward scale is public land, and in Stittsville there is almost none of it: the federal government holds less than two-thirds of a hectare. The federal figures were produced by downloading the Directory of Federal Real Property in full and testing every parcel's registered coordinate against the City of Ottawa's own Ward 6 Stittsville polygon — the register labels every Ottawa parcel "Ottawa", so a name match would have returned nothing. The former Township of Goulbourn figure is given alongside because Stittsville sat inside Goulbourn before 2001 and almost all of the old township's federal land is nowhere near the village.
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.
Stittsville is the clearest case in this batch of a place where ownership is simply not knowable from public sources. The Crown holds 0.62 of a hectare; the City holds eleven buildings; the other 2,565 hectares are private and unenumerated.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Government of Canada (Canada Post) Directory of Federal Real Property, two Crown-owned parcels. The smallest federal footprint of any place in this batch and, proportionally, smaller than Kanata's 0.33 per cent. |
Government | 0.6155 ha owned — 0.024% of the wardA |
| Every private holder in Stittsville There is no concentration measure for the ward. Ontario publishes no roll, no price-paid file and no bulk ownership extract; the register is $37.10 per PIN and cannot be read in quantity at any price. The record states that rather than estimating. |
Private company | not establishedA |
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.
Stittsville is a housing community and almost nothing else, so the builder register is the one measure that reaches it. Ontario licenses a separate company for each subdivision and publishes each licensee's possessions, which makes a licensee registered in Stittsville a genuine local count — but it is a count of small firms. Eight licensees give Stittsville as their address and the largest has 84 possessions in ten years; the subdivisions that actually filled the community out were built by Ottawa-wide and Toronto-registered companies whose registered address is somewhere else, and the register cannot attribute their homes to a place. The one new entrant is telling on its own: Caivan (Stittsville) Inc. was licensed on 19 June 2025 and the register returns no possessions for it yet. Figures are "Total Possessions" — freehold and condominium homes actually handed to a buyer, cumulative and province-wide — and the directory gives the licensee's registered address, not where the homes were built.
| Name | Type | Total possessions (cumulative, Ontario) |
|---|---|---|
| Land Ark Construction Ltd. 84 freehold and no condominium, account B49029, licensed 27 January 2021, registered at 11 Ridingview Crescent, Stittsville. The largest Stittsville-registered builder in the province's directory. |
Private company | 84A |
| Tomar Custom Homes Limited 44 freehold, account B34382, licensed 19 April 2004, registered at 54 Bert G. Argue Drive. One of the two long-established Stittsville licensees. |
Private company | 44A |
| Habitat for Humanity National Capital Region 6 freehold + 31 condominium, account B32389, licensed 24 April 2002, registered at 3 Iber Road in the Stittsville industrial park. A charity carrying a builder's licence, and the only non-commercial entry in this table. |
Institution | 37A |
| Klinger Homes Inc. 18 freehold and no condominium, account B42991, licensed 21 June 2013, registered at 183 Loreka Court, Stittsville. |
Private company | 18A |
| TimberCross Homes Inc. 16 freehold, account B44804, licensed 2 October 2015, registered at 1 Doraty Lane, Stittsville. |
Private company | 16A |
| West Hill Homes Ltd. and Rockdale Homes Inc. West Hill Homes Ltd., account B35421, licensed 19 April 2005, 3 Crossing Bridge Court, 9 freehold; Rockdale Homes Inc., account B62019, licensed 14 March 2023, 67 Iber Road, 2 freehold. The tail of the Stittsville list, and an accurate picture of its scale. |
Private company | 9 and 2A |
| Caivan (Stittsville) Inc. Account B64250, umbrella Caivan Communities, licensed 19 June 2025 and registered at 3713 Borrisokane Road in Nepean. The register carries no possession count for it, which is what a brand-new subdivision company looks like before its first closings. Caivan's umbrella has 3,687 possessions province-wide. |
Private company | no possessions recordedA |
| City of Ottawa — all builders The only official completion count that includes Stittsville, and it covers the whole city: Ontario's housing supply progress table, 7,871 homes in 2024 against a 12,583 target, 62.55 per cent, status "Not met". No ward share is published. |
Government | 7,871 in 2024A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Stittsville has no commercial landlord of any scale whose holding an open source establishes, and that is the honest finding rather than a gap in the search. There is no office tower, no enclosed mall and no federal office in the ward. The industrial strip along Iber Road is the one concentration of non-residential floor space, and the only thing published about it is that Canada Post owns a 1,411 m² depot on it and rents an 803 m² delivery centre on it from somebody the register does not name.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Post Corporation Directory of Federal Real Property: the Iber Road Depot at 86 Iber Rd (1,411 m², Crown Owned), the Stittsville Post Office at 1606 Main St (205 m², Crown Owned) and the Delivery Centre at 200 Iber Road (803 m², Lease or Licence). The entire federal presence in the ward. |
Government | 1,616 m² owned on 0.62 ha, plus 803 m² leasedA |
| City of Ottawa The City's own City Facilities inventory, filtered to the Ward 6 polygon: a recreation complex, an arena, a library, two fire stations, a police patrol facility, two community centres, a change house, a comfort station and a food-bank storage facility. No floor area is published for any of them. |
Government | 11 buildingsA |
| Every private commercial landlord in Stittsville No REIT filing, annual report or company page opened in this research names a Stittsville asset. Ontario publishes no assessment roll, no price-paid file and no bulk ownership extract, and the parcel register is $37.10 per PIN, so the ownership of the Iber Road industrial park, the Stittsville Main Street retail and the Hazeldean Road plazas could not be established at any tier. |
Private company | not establishedA |
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 owner of 200 Iber Road, the building Canada Post leases. The federal register proves Canada does not own it and names no counterparty.
- The owners of the Iber Road industrial park, the Stittsville Main Street retail frontage and the Hazeldean Road plazas. No opened filing or company page names a Stittsville asset.
- Any assessed value for any Stittsville parcel. MPAC publishes no roll, its lookup is CAPTCHA-gated and the 2026 tax year still runs on 1 January 2016 values.
- Any per-sale price with an address anywhere in Ontario. Consideration appears only on the registered transfer instrument, per parcel, at the fee in s2.
- A Stittsville-only assessment, levy, population or housing-completions figure of any kind. The City of Ottawa files one Financial Information Return and the province sets one housing target for the whole city.
- Registered title to the eleven City of Ottawa buildings in the ward. The City publishes a facilities inventory, not a property register, so ownership rests on the inventory rather than on a parcel register that was opened.
- Whether Stittsville was ever separately incorporated and when it ceased to be. Natural Resources Canada's names database gives a 1939 decision date and the unincorporated-place code but no incorporation history, and ontario.ca/laws serves a JavaScript shell, so no statutory text was opened. What is established is that the Township of Goulbourn contained it and was dissolved into Ottawa in 2001.
- Whether any sitting member of Ottawa City Council holds property in Stittsville relevant to a council decision. No conflict-of-interest registry was reachable; nothing was established and nothing is alleged.
Sources
- Land Registry — "the official records of property ownership and other legal interests", "more than 7.4 million parcels", services "only available online", "You can do a self-search for a fee" — ServiceOntario (Government of Ontario) · openA
- Bulletin No. 2026-04, Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 — copy of parcel register including first page $9.70 + $24.25 + $3.15 = $37.10; adjacent parcel register per PIN $13.15; additional page $2.56; inactive parcel register $1.36 — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Land Registry Services Branch · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — full XML dataset (custodian, interest type, land area, floor area, building count, parcel coordinates) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Former Municipalities / Anciennes municipalités — ArcGIS feature layer naming the eleven pre-2001 municipalities including Goulbourn — City of Ottawa · openA
- The Assessment Cycle — "Property assessments for the 2026 property tax year will continue to be based on fully phased-in January 1, 2016 current values." — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation · openA
- Canadian Geographical Names Database — "Stittsville", Carleton, concise code UNP (unincorporated place), generic 202 "a named residential area adjacent to a city, town or village", decision date 1939-12-12 — Natural Resources Canada · openA
- Financial Information Return, multi-year bulk data — City of Ottawa 2025, Schedule 26 taxable assessment by class and Schedule 22 levies — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory — licensee records and possession counts (api/builders, api/buildersummary) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority · openA
- City Facilities — ArcGIS map service, eight layers (Arts and Culture, Civic Administration, General Purpose, Protective Services, Public Works, Recreation, Social Services, Transit Services) — City of Ottawa · openA
- Wards / Quartiers — ArcGIS feature layer giving Ward 6 Stittsville, its boundary and its councillor — City of Ottawa · openA
- Ontario's housing supply: January – December 2024 — Ottawa 151,000 / 28,641 / 12,583 / 7,871 / 62.55% / Not met — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) · openA