Temiskaming Shores, Ontario
The place researched here is Temiskaming Shores, the single-tier Ontario city formed in 2004 from the towns of New Liskeard and Haileybury and the township of Dymond - not Temiscaming, the separate town across the lake in Quebec. Three municipalities became one, but the records did not follow: every licensed homebuilder in the city is still registered under 'New Liskeard' or 'Haileybury', and the largest federally owned holding in the city is still filed as flood control works in the Township of Dymond. The city's $1.10 billion of taxable assessment is 77 per cent residential, and no privately owned building in it has an owner in any free register.
7 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 10 sources · 1 tier B · 6 tier A · prepared 2026-10-03
Ontario's land registry holds the official record of ownership for more than 7.4 million parcels, and ServiceOntario states that its land registry services are only available online. Anyone may look up who owns a parcel through OnLand, but only by paying: ServiceOntario's fee bulletin sets a copy of a parcel register at $37.10 including HST from 2 November 2026, with $2.56 per additional page and $13.15 per adjacent PIN on Teraview. There is no bulk ownership extract, no open assessment roll - MPAC's per-property values sit behind AboutMyProperty, propertyline and Municipal Connect, each requiring a login - and no price-paid dataset, so a sale price exists only on the registered transfer, one parcel at a time. What is free is everything around title: the municipality's Financial Information Return, the federal real property directory, and the audited statements of the hospitals, colleges and councils that own the largest buildings in a town this size.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temiskaming Hospital 421 Shepherdson Road, New Liskeard, Temiskaming Shores |
Institutional | Temiskaming Hospital The hospital's audited statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 record buildings at $23,867,204 of cost against $15,552,089 of accumulated amortization - a net book value of $8,315,115 - plus building service equipment of $13,508,057 and land improvements of $956,652 that are almost fully written down. Note what is absent: the capital-asset note carries no land line at all, so the statements establish that the corporation owns the buildings but say nothing about who owns the ground under them. The note describes the owner as incorporated under the laws of Ontario and a registered charity. Address from the hospital's own site. |
Institution | —B |
| New Liskeard Post Office Whitewood Street at Paget Street, New Liskeard, Temiskaming Shores 933 sq m floor area on 0.1116 ha, 1 building |
Retail | Canada Post Corporation The Directory of Federal Real Property records this as Crown Owned - not leased - with Canada Post as custodian, 933.4 square metres of floor area on 0.1116 hectares. It is the largest Crown-owned building in the city after the hospital, and one of only two buildings anywhere in Temiskaming Shores whose owner can be established from a free register. The federal directory is published under the Open Government Licence - Canada, which is why it can be quoted here while nothing about a private parcel can. |
Government | —A |
| Haileybury Post Office 514 Ferguson Avenue, Haileybury, Temiskaming Shores 232 sq m floor area on 0.0924 ha, 1 building |
Retail | Canada Post Corporation Crown Owned, per the Directory of Federal Real Property. The amalgamation shows in the register: three Canada Post properties survive inside one city - this one and New Liskeard's are owned outright, while North Cobalt's 71 square metres are held under Lease or Licence, which means a private landlord owns that one and cannot be named without buying the parcel register. |
Government | —A |
| Flood control works, former Township of Dymond Township of Dymond, Temiskaming Shores 25.5655 ha |
Land | His Majesty the King in right of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada) The single largest federally owned land holding in Temiskaming Shores, and the only entry anywhere in the city's open record measured in tens of hectares. The Directory of Federal Real Property lists 'GC Site - Flood Control Works - Township of Dymond' as Crown Owned, custodian Public Services and Procurement Canada, 25.5655 hectares, primary use Services and Utilities, no buildings. The register still files it under Dymond, the township that stopped existing in 2004 - a reminder that amalgamation changed the council, not the deeds. |
Government | —A |
| 280 Armstrong Street North (federal office) 280 Armstrong Street North, New Liskeard, Temiskaming Shores 112 sq m floor area, 1 building |
Office | Not established a paid title search would answer it Public Services and Procurement Canada holds 112 square metres here under 'Lease or Licence', not Crown Owned, so the federal government is a tenant on New Liskeard's main street and someone else owns the building. The federal register names the custodian and never the landlord; nothing in an open Ontario dataset names them either, and establishing it means a $37.10 parcel register. This is the ordinary condition of almost every commercial building in the city. |
Not established | —A |
| Northern College, Haileybury Campus 640 Latchford Street, Haileybury, Temiskaming Shores |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it The campus is real and substantial - the college's own page describes a library, cafeteria overlooking Lake Temiskaming, residence, athletics and fitness facilities, and the only Veterinary Technology - Wildlife Rehabilitation programme in Ontario, with an underwater treadmill. But everything the page says is occupancy: 'our campus', 'our student services offices'. Operation is not ownership, and Northern College publishes no capital-asset schedule naming this site. The owner is left blank rather than assumed from the tenant's name. |
Not established | —A |
| City of Temiskaming Shores municipal office 325 Farr Drive, Haileybury, Temiskaming Shores |
Civic | The Corporation of the City of Temiskaming Shores The city gives 325 Farr Drive, Haileybury as its own address. Temiskaming Shores is a single-tier municipality - the Financial Information Return shows no upper-tier levy column at all - so it carries the whole municipal asset base itself: arenas in more than one of the former towns, a pool and fitness centre with a 25-metre indoor pool and a 100-metre slide, marinas, a campground at Bucke Park, and an industrial business park. In September 2026 it issued a request for proposals for the lease of municipal land for cultivation purposes, which is a direct statement that the city holds farmland. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
No individual parcel value in Temiskaming Shores is public. The open figure is the city's own return to the province: Schedule 26A of the 2025 Financial Information Return, taxable current value assessment by property class. Temiskaming Shores is one of the few places in this batch that appears in the 2025 file, so these are current. Figures are unweighted taxable CVA; the weighted and discounted base the levy is struck on is larger, $1,247,473,793, because commercial and industrial classes are taxed at multiples of residential.
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.
Concentration here is institutional and public. Three owners can be named from free records; the fourth largest holding in the city - the Northern College campus - cannot be, because the college's own pages speak only of occupancy.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| His Majesty the King in right of Canada (Public Services and Procurement Canada) The Dymond flood control works are Crown Owned; the New Liskeard office is leased. Both from the Directory of Federal Real Property, Open Government Licence - Canada. |
Government | 25.57 ha owned, plus 112 sq m leasedA |
| The Corporation of the City of Temiskaming Shores A single-tier municipality carrying everything three former municipalities once held separately. Its September 2026 RFP for the lease of municipal land for cultivation purposes establishes that it holds agricultural land outright. |
Government | arenas, pool and fitness centre, marinas, Bucke Park campground, industrial business park and leasable farmlandA |
| Temiskaming Hospital Audited statements to 31 March 2025: buildings $23,867,204 cost and $8,315,115 net, building service equipment $13,508,057, furniture and equipment $26,575,092, construction in progress $238,351. No land is carried on the balance sheet. |
Institution | $23.87M of buildings at cost, $65.1M of capital assets in allA |
| Canada Post Corporation Owns New Liskeard (933 sq m on 0.1116 ha) and Haileybury (232 sq m on 0.0924 ha) outright; leases North Cobalt. Directory of Federal Real Property. |
Government | 0.204 ha across two owned post officesA |
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.
CMHC publishes no starts series for Temiskaming Shores. The only per-builder record is Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority directory - and it has no entry for Temiskaming Shores at all. Every licensee in the city is still registered under a municipality that ceased to exist in 2004: two under New Liskeard, two under Haileybury, out of 26 licences ever issued at those two addresses. Four live licences for a city of about 9,600 people. The directory gives the licensee's registered address, not where the homes were built.
| Name | Type | Possessions, 2016-2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Roger A. Rivard & Son Ltd. (Rivard Brothers) 248 Shepherdson Road, New Liskeard; HCRA-licensed continuously since 6 January 1977, the oldest live licence in the city, and grouped under a 'Rivard Bros.' umbrella. 44 freehold possessions, no condominium units, no chargeable conciliations, no claims paid. Read from the HCRA builder directory API. |
Family / private | 44A |
| 1470739 Ontario Ltd. (Hearn Construction) 553 Barr Drive, New Liskeard; licensed since 19 April 2005. Four freehold possessions in twenty-one years, no claims. Read from the HCRA builder directory API. |
Private company | 4A |
| 1644149 Ontario Ltd. (G. Belanger Construction) 349 Niven Street, Haileybury; licensed since 3 April 2006. Three freehold possessions, no claims. Read from the HCRA builder directory API. |
Private company | 3A |
| North Wood Homes & Renovations Ltd. 175488 Fleming Road, Haileybury; licensed 1 June 2022. The HCRA summary returns no possession count, which for a licence of this age means no completed freehold or condominium deliveries have been reported. Listed because it is one of only four live licences in the city. |
Private company | 0A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No REIT, pension fund or named commercial landlord could be established in Temiskaming Shores, and the city is almost certainly too small to hold one. $152 million of commercial and shopping-centre assessment sits behind parcels no free register names. The one thing the open record does establish is the inverse: who the federal government rents from, without naming them.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| Not established - landlord of 280 Armstrong Street North Public Services and Procurement Canada holds this New Liskeard office under 'Lease or Licence' per the Directory of Federal Real Property. The register names the custodian, never the landlord. |
Private company | 112 sq mA |
| Not established - landlord of North Cobalt Post Office Canada Post holds the North Cobalt post office on Lakeview Avenue under 'Lease or Licence' while owning the New Liskeard and Haileybury offices outright. Same directory, same limitation. |
Private company | 71 sq mA |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- No parcel-level owner for any privately held building: establishing one means paying $37.10 per parcel register on OnLand, and no open Ontario register answers the question.
- No sale price for any privately held property: Ontario publishes no price-paid dataset, so a price exists only on the registered transfer.
- Who owns the Northern College Haileybury Campus at 640 Latchford Street: the college publishes no capital-asset schedule naming the site, and its pages describe occupancy only.
- Whether Temiskaming Hospital owns the land under 421 Shepherdson Road: its audited capital-asset note carries land improvements and buildings but no land line.
- The $14.77 million of shopping-centre assessment in the city could not be tied to a named shopping centre from any open source.
- No named private landowner of any kind could be established in Temiskaming Shores.
Sources
- Overview: land registry — Government of Ontario (ServiceOntario) · openA
- Bulletin 2026-04: Land Services Fee Changes effective November 2, 2026 — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, ServiceOntario, Land Registry Services Branch · openA
- MPAC home page (AboutMyProperty, propertyline, Municipal Connect) — Municipal Property Assessment Corporation · registrationA
- Financial Information Return - multi-year data by year (bulk CSV) — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ontario (EFIS) · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property - open data extract (dfrp-rbif.zip) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Ontario Builder Directory API (/api/builders, /api/buildersummary, /api/builderProperties) — Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) · openA
- Financial Statements of Temiskaming Hospital, year ended March 31, 2025 — Temiskaming Hospital (audited by KPMG LLP) · openA
- Temiskaming Hospital home page (421 Shepherdson Road, New Liskeard) — Temiskaming Hospital · openA
- City of Temiskaming Shores home page (325 Farr Drive, Haileybury; news and tenders) — City of Temiskaming Shores · openA
- Haileybury Campus - campus contacts, facilities and mailing address — Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology · openA