Val-d'Or, Quebec
Val-d'Or is a gold-mining town whose municipal boundary encloses 3,625 km² of mostly public forest, and MAMH's summary of its roll says so plainly: 447 assessment units entered in the name of the Quebec State cover 326,953 hectares — 90% of all the titled land in the city — while the whole mining class, 49 units, carries $118 million, about 2% of a $5.7 billion roll, and the school bodies alone hold more exempt value ($149 million) than the whole mining class.
5 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 18 sources · 4 tier B · 1 tier A · prepared 2026-10-10
Ownership in Quebec is public and free, but only one property at a time. The provincial bulk file publishes every Val-d'Or assessment unit (16,257 in 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. The roll in force is the 2025-2026-2027 triennial, effective 1 January 2025 at market conditions of 1 July 2023, and the City's own page names the evaluator: "L'évaluateur mandaté par la Ville de Val-d'Or est la Société d'analyse immobilière Abitibi inc." A free per-property lookup that does show the owner's name is published through PG Solutions' citizen portal, but its terms restrict it to "la consultation personnelle citoyenne" with a capped number of free consultations, so this record does not use it. A sale price appears only in the Registre foncier du Québec, at 1,50 $ per document.
- 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.”
- pdi.pgmunicipal.com (the City of Val-d'Or's own roll lookup, citizen access) — “L'outil gratuit est destiné à la consultation personnelle citoyenne. Dans cette optique, et afin d'assurer sa bonne utilisation, une limite de consultations gratuites pour une période donnée est établie.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goldex mine and mill 1953 3e Avenue, Val-d'Or |
Industrial | Agnico Eagle Mines Limited The International Cyanide Management Institute's signatory directory gives the Goldex operation's address as "1953, 3e Avenue, Val-d'Or, Quebec J9P 7B2" and its operating company as "Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited". That is the operator at the address; the roll's owner field is redacted, so holding through a subsidiary is not excluded. MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 puts Val-d'Or's whole mining class (CUBF 85) at 49 units worth $117,908,500 on 2,882 ha. The unit's own assessed value came from the open roll file, which is no longer used. |
Public company | —B |
| Usine Uniboard Val-d'Or — particleboard and fibreboard plant 2700 boulevard Jean-Jacques-Cossette, Val-d'Or |
Industrial | Uniboard Canada inc. Uniboard's own release states the Val-d'Or plant made its first panel on 13 October 1977, is "chef de file dans la fabrication de panneaux de particules bruts et de panneaux laminés en Amérique du Nord", sits beside "l'usine de résine Unires" and took more than $50M of capital investment in 2016. MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 puts the city's whole manufacturing class at 41 taxable units worth $103,313,000. The plant's own assessed value, floor area and title date came from the open roll file, which is no longer used. |
Private company | —B |
| Complexe minier Lamaque (Triangle mine) 1000 voie de service Goldex-Manitou, Val-d'Or |
Industrial | Eldorado Gold Québec Eldorado Gold Québec's own contact page gives "Complexe minier Lamaque, 1000, voie de Service Goldex-Manitou, Val-d'Or QC J9P 0M6" — the company names the complex as its own. The roll's owner field is redacted, and the unit's assessed value, area and title date came from the open roll file, which is no longer used. |
Public company | —B |
| Usine de traitement de minerai Sigma 300 3e Avenue Est, Val-d'Or |
Industrial | Eldorado Gold Québec Eldorado Gold Québec's contact page gives "Usine de traitement de minerai Sigma, 300, 3e Avenue Est, Val-d'Or QC J9P 0J6" and names it as the guard post for community reports. The roll's owner field is redacted, and the unit's assessed value, area and title date came from the open roll file, which is no longer used. |
Public company | —B |
| CanmetMINING Val-d'Or research laboratory 1 chemin Peter Ferderber, Val-d'Or 3,390 m² of floor area on 5.1 ha (federal directory) |
Institutional | Crown in right of Canada — custodian Natural Resources Canada The Directory of Federal Real Property lists "CanmetMINING Val-d'Or, 1 Peter Ferderber Road" as Crown Owned, custodian Natural Resources Canada, 3,390 m² of floor area on 5.1 ha. MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 shows the Crown in right of Canada holding 2 exempt units in Val-d'Or under s. 204(1.1°), worth $2,823,000 on 5.41 ha — consistent with this laboratory being the larger of them. The unit's own roll values came from the open roll file, which is no longer used. |
Government | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Every figure here is from MAMH's statutory Sommaire du rôle workbook for fiscal 2026, row 89008: $5,704,543,900 over 16,257 assessment units, 16,996 dwellings, 1,918 non-residential premises and 362,453.4 ha of titled land; taxable $5,201,119,500, non-taxable $503,424,400. Market-conditions reference date 1 July 2023, 2025-2026-2027 triennial. Re-sourced 2026-10-10 from MAMH's quarterly roll (www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca/role/RM89008.xml); the earlier build used a host whose robots.txt disallows crawling. In fact MAMH's quarterly index carries no file for Val-d'Or (code 89008) and that URL answers 404, so the earlier parse of RL89008_2026.xml is replaced by the Sommaire, and every unit-level figure is dropped. Differences: the Sommaire has 3 more units, $36,197,000 more value (+0.64%), 45 more dwellings and 17 more premises than the earlier parse; it also replaces the earlier build's claim that Val-d'Or's total could not be checked against any official document.
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.
In Val-d'Or the question 'who owns the city' has an unusually literal answer: the Quebec State holds 90% of the land inside the municipal boundary, mostly as unexploited forest, and pays no tax on it. Among public owners of buildings the school bodies and the health network lead; the whole mining class is worth 2.1% of the roll.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Government of Quebec (the State or the Société québécoise des infrastructures) MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026: 447 units exempt under s. 204(1°) worth $28,935,900, plus $17,105,500 of SQI value apportioned under s. 255(1) and $136,500 under s. 262. |
Government | 447 units, 326,953.5 ha, $46,177,900 assessedA |
| Quebec health and social services network and other s. 204(14°) holders MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, codes 600016-600018: 8 units exempt under s. 204(14°a), 14°a.1, 14°b or 14°c — Santé Québec, a Schedule II establishment, an authorised private establishment or a childcare centre — worth $104,962,500 on 197,409 m². The Centre hospitalier de Val-d'Or is the obvious largest, but its own value came from the roll file, which is no longer used. |
Government | 8 units, 19.7 ha, $104,962,500 assessedA |
| Quebec school bodies (s. 204(13°)) MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026: primary and secondary schools 26 units worth $110,424,000 on 104.50 ha (codes 600034-600036); CEGEP and university-level establishments 7 units worth $38,619,500 on 4.00 ha (600022-600024). The largest holder of exempt building value in the city. The Sommaire does not say which body holds which unit. |
Institution | 33 units, 108.5 ha, $149,043,500 assessedA |
| Ville de Val-d'Or MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, codes 600049-600051: more assessment units than any other owner in the city, almost all of them small lots, all exempt under s. 204(3°). |
Government | 1,443 units, 5,802.5 ha, $122,413,500 assessedA |
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.
Val-d'Or's new housing is being built by a non-profit, not by a developer. The roll's stock is small-scale: MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 counts 7,803 single-dwelling non-condominium units against only 4 apartment buildings of 50 to 99 dwellings and none larger. Quebec publishes no builder league table, so each figure below comes from a named outlet's report or the Sommaire.
| Name | Type | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Accès Patrimmo Radio-Canada reports that construction has begun on "78 nouveaux logements abordables" at the corner of rue Giguère and boulevard Forest, promoted by the non-profit Accès Patrimmo, with 12 to 18 months of work ahead, on top of 32 units already built in 2025 within a 110-unit programme for the city. This is the largest identified housing programme in Val-d'Or and it is run by an organisme à but non lucratif, not a private builder. |
Institution | 110 affordable units in Val-d'Or (32 built, 78 under way)A |
| Ville de Val-d'Or Included because the City is by far the largest holder of parcels in Val-d'Or by count: MAMH's Sommaire du rôle 2026 (codes 600049-600051) shows 1,443 assessment units exempt under s. 204(3°), covering 5,802.5 ha. Most are small vacant or servicing lots, which is what municipal land assembly looks like in a mining town. |
Government | 1,443 units, 5,802.5 ha, $122,413,500 assessedA |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Val-d'Or's commercial stock is one enclosed shopping centre, a big-box strip on 3e Avenue and a mining-services sector. The earlier build named its largest units from the open roll file, which is no longer used; this section now gives MAMH's class totals, and no commercial owner is named.
| Name | Type | Units / value |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping centres and commercial buildings, CUBF 50 (owners not established) MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, use class 50 (centres et immeubles commerciaux): 135 taxable units, land $29,854,000 + buildings $152,537,500, on 79.44 ha. The open roll names none of the owners. |
Private company | 135 taxable units, $182,391,500A |
| Retail, CUBF 52-59 except hotels (owners not established) MAMH Sommaire du rôle 2026, use classes 52 to 59 other than 583: 164 taxable units worth $285,575,500 on 119.94 ha, plus 29 wholesale units (class 51) worth $46,147,500. |
Private company | 164 taxable units, $285,575,500A |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Unit-level values for Val-d'Or. The only bulk copy of its roll is on donneesouvertes.affmunqc.net, whose robots.txt disallows all crawling, and MAMH's quarterly-update index lists no RM89008.xml. Dropped from the earlier build as a result: the hospital's own value ($80,993,500) and its rank as the top unit, the Polyvalente, the Goldex, Lamaque, Sigma and Uniboard unit values and title dates, the 761 km² forest unit on chemin Baie-Carrière, the multisport centre at 119 rue Self and the arena, the shopping centre at 1801 3e Avenue, the department stores at 1806 and 1855, the hotel at 1515, the mining-services cluster, the apartment building at 1300 avenue Delorimier, the seniors' residences at 1421 rue des Hauts-Bois and 111 rue Sylvestre, 950 chemin Kienawisik, the top-10 and top-100 shares, the 22.8% rise on the previous roll and the dwellings-by-year series.
- Whether Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, Eldorado Gold Québec and Uniboard Canada inc. hold their Val-d'Or sites directly or through subsidiaries. Each company's own page or an industry register places it at the address; the roll's owner field is redacted and no deed, Schedule III property table or Exhibit 21 subsidiary list was opened.
- Who holds the Kiena complex. Wesdome Gold Mines' Kiena operation is in Val-d'Or, but wesdome.com serves a Cloudflare interstitial to scripts and no address could be read.
- Which school service centre holds the 26 Val-d'Or units exempted as schools, and which institution the 7 CEGEP/university units. The Sommaire gives the class, not the body.
- The total value of Accès Patrimmo's Val-d'Or programme and the identity of the contractor. Search results give a figure near $36M and name a construction company; neither appears on a page that opened, because Le Citoyen renders article bodies in JavaScript.
- Owner names are redacted from the provincial bulk roll and the licence forbids re-identifying them. Val-d'Or does publish a free per-property lookup that shows the owner, but its terms restrict it to personal citizen consultation with a capped number of free searches, so it was not used.
Sources
- Rôle d'évaluation foncière du Québec — the per-municipality XML files, owner names and mailing addresses redacted — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) / Données Québec · openA
- Quebec property assessment roll — English dataset record stating the redaction and the re-identification ban — Government and Municipalities of Québec via Open Government Portal · openA
- Index de la mise à jour trimestrielle des rôles d'évaluation foncière — MAMH's list of quarterly roll files (1,036 rows); it carries no row for 89008 Val-d'Or — MAMH · openA
- Répertoire des renseignements prescrits du rôle d'évaluation foncière, version 2.5 — the field dictionary (RL0504Ax "Numéro de la loi", RL0504Bx "Numéro de l'article", RL0504Cx "Numéro de l'alinéa ou du paragraphe") — MAMH via Données Québec · openA
- Loi sur la fiscalité municipale (chapitre F-2.1), art. 204 — "Sont exempts de toute taxe foncière, municipale ou scolaire: 1° un immeuble … inscrite au nom de l'État ou de la Société québécoise des infrastructures; 1.1° … de la Couronne du chef du Canada ou d'un mandataire de celle-ci; 2.3° … au nom de la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ou … l'une de ses filiales; 3° … d'une municipalité locale … situé dans son territoire; 4° … situé hors de son territoire; 5° … d'une Communauté, d'une municipalité régionale de comté ou d'un mandataire …; 7° un terrain … d'une personne qui exploite un réseau visé à l'article 66, 67 ou 68; 8° … d'une fabrique, d'une institution religieuse …; 9° un immeuble qui sert de cimetière …; 10° un immeuble visé par une reconnaissance … prévue à l'article 243.3; 13° … d'un centre de services scolaire, … d'un collège d'enseignement général et professionnel, d'un établissement d'enseignement de niveau universitaire …; 14° a) … de Santé Québec, d'un établissement visé à l'annexe II …", and art. 208, which makes an exempt State or federal immovable taxable in the hands of a lessee or occupant who is not a person mentioned in art. 204 — Légis Québec / Gouvernement du Québec · openA
- Codes d'utilisation des biens-fonds (CUBF) — liste numérique, annexe 2C.1 du Manuel d'évaluation foncière du Québec, édition 2025 (1,259 codes with their French descriptions) — Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation via Québec.ca · openA
- Sommaire — Tarification des produits et services du registre foncier et du cadastre, in force 1 April 2026 ("Documents … Par document 1,50 $") — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (MRNF) · openA
- Terms of use and privacy policy — Centris (Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers) · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — open data extract (19,973 properties; custodian, Crown Owned vs Lease or Licence, land area, floor area) — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. M-13, s. 3(1) — "The Minister may … make a payment out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to a taxing authority applying for it (a) in lieu of a real property tax for a taxation year". This is the statute the Quebec roll cites as "M-13 3(1)" beside every s. 204(1.1°) federal parcel. — Department of Justice Canada · openA
- Évaluation foncière — "Le prochain rôle triennal d'évaluation de la Ville de Val-d'Or sera en vigueur dès le 1er janvier 2025"; "Les valeurs qui y sont inscrites reflètent les conditions du marché au 1er juillet 2023. Elles serviront de base pour le calcul des taxes municipales des années 2025, 2026, 2027"; "L'évaluateur mandaté par la Ville de Val-d'Or est la Société d'analyse immobilière Abitibi inc." — Ville de Val-d'Or · openA
- Goldex — signatory directory entry: "Name of Operating Company: Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited"; "Operation Address / Location: 1953, 3e Avenue, Val-d'Or, Quebec J9P 7B2, Canada" — International Cyanide Management Institute (The Cyanide Code) · openA
- Nous joindre — "Usine de traitement de minerai Sigma, 300, 3e Avenue Est, Val-d'Or QC J9P 0J6"; "Complexe minier Lamaque, 1000, voie de Service Goldex-Manitou, Val-d'Or QC J9P 0M6"; "Bureaux régional et d'exploration, 1077, 3e Avenue Est, Val-d'Or QC J9P 0J7" — Eldorado Gold Québec · openA
- L'usine de Val-d'Or d'Uniboard souligne 40 ans de succès — "C'est le 13 octobre 1977 que l'usine de Val-d'Or d'Uniboard fabriquait son tout premier panneau … chef de file dans la fabrication de panneaux de particules bruts et de panneaux laminés en Amérique du Nord. Avec l'usine de résine Unires à ses côtés …" and "des investissements en capitaux d'envergure de plus de 50 millions de dollars en 2016" — Uniboard · openA
- Le chantier est lancé pour 78 nouveaux logements abordables à Val-d'Or — 78 affordable units "au coin de la rue Giguère et du boulevard Forest", promoted by the non-profit Accès Patrimmo, 12 to 18 months of construction, on top of 32 units built in 2025 within a 110-unit programme — Radio-Canada · openA
- Directory of Federal Real Property — Val-d'Or: 7 federal properties, 3 Crown Owned (CanmetMINING Val-d'Or, 1 Peter Ferderber Road, 3,390 m² of floor area on 5.1 ha, custodian Natural Resources Canada; Val-d'Or Post Office, 905 2e av., 1,485 m²; Val D'Or VOR/DME/EPU, Transport Canada, 1.5 ha) and 4 Lease or Licence — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · openA
- Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière, exercice 2026 — MAMH's per-municipality workbook, row 89008 (200001 units, 200002 dwellings, 200004 other premises, 200011-200019 values, 300001-300459 by use class, 400044-400046 registered farms, 600001-600102 non-taxable value by art. 204 paragraph, 800030 SQI art. 255(1)) — MAMH — Données statistiques sur l'évaluation foncière · openA
- Charte des codes du Sommaire du rôle d'évaluation foncière 2026 — the chart naming each code (600010-600012 "par. 1° (autres immeubles)", 600016-600018 "par. 14°a, 14°a.1, 14°b ou 14°c", 600049-600051 "par. 3o", 400044-400046 exploitations agricoles enregistrées) — MAMH · openA