Liteline rep — Ottawa and Gatineau
Liteline — Downlights, Track and Panels, Made in Canada
Well-made downlights and track from a family-owned factory in Richmond Hill, with a QuickShip program a schedule can plan around.
Talk to us about a scheduleWhat this line is to us
Liteline is a family-owned manufacturer that has made lighting in Canada since 1979, run today by the founder’s children from its headquarters in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
We specify it when a project needs the same quality across the whole ceiling, feature rooms included. Sigma and LUNA downlights, KLICK track, Genesis commercial recessed, and EDGE and FORUM panels cover most of what a commercial ceiling asks for, from one manufacturer, on one purchase order. The downlights are what the people who notice these things notice: regressed apertures that keep the source out of sight, round and square trims in black or white, and 90+ CRI, the measure of colour rendering: whether skin, wood and food look right under the light, or slightly off.
We have specified it on nine photographed projects, from a law society’s wall of crests to a childcare centre in Ottawa’s Greenbelt.
What we use it for
Downlights worth looking at
Regressed, pinhole and gimbal Sigma apertures at 90+ CRI, in round and square trims.
Track that can change
KLICK modules snap in and out of the powered track, so a wall can be re-lit after the art is hung.
Lay-in ceilings
EDGE and FORUM panels drop into a T-bar grid without a coordination fight.
Ship times you can plan to
Eligible QuickShip SKUs ship in two business days from stock and seven made to order.
Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Ottawa
Each head pointed at its own problem
At the Federation of Law Societies, a wall of fourteen law society crests is lit from Liteline track with the heads turned off-axis, so any glare bounces away from whoever stands in front of it. In the staff lounge, sixteen more heads sit up inside the coffers of a timber waffle ceiling, aimed at the wood so the ceiling reads as a lit structure instead of a dark grid against the windows. Track earns its place here because each head can be pointed at its own job.
Ottawa Forest and Nature School, Ottawa
Soft enough for a nap room
At the Ottawa Forest and Nature School, a childcare centre in the Greenbelt, Sigma2 downlights carry the classrooms and the corridors. These rooms are used for sleep as well as play, so the light had to stay soft and out of the eyeline. Sigma comes in regressed versions at 90+ CRI, which keep the source up inside the housing, and in dim-to-warm versions, where it gets warmer as it dims, the way a candle does.
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Ottawa
Track is the fixture that survives a change of mind
At Osler’s Ottawa office a run of KLICK track grazes the art, each head turned to the piece in front of it rather than to the room. Once the collection was hung, dozens more heads went up late in the job. On a recessed layout that would have meant new holes in a finished ceiling. On KLICK the modules snap into the powered track by hand, which is why a change that size stayed small.
Carleton University Teraanga Commons Food Hall, Ottawa
Food stations move. The light above them should too.
At Teraanga Commons, the Carleton University food hall, KLICK track runs over the serving stations. Menus, signage and counter layouts in a food hall change far more often than its ceiling does, and a fixed downlight keeps lighting the spot where the counter used to be. Heads on track follow the counter, so the food and the people serving it stay properly lit.
What we do on a Liteline job
On a Liteline job we select the families and lay them out against the reflected ceiling plan, run the photometrics, and price through your distributor. We check every ordering code against QuickShip before it goes on the drawing and follow lead times as the job moves. We come to site where the project calls for it, or when something is not reading as intended, and we work it through with you. Liteline is installed in our Ottawa showroom and in our own office, so you can see it working, and samples are on hand so a finish or a colour temperature can be settled in person.
QuickShip is the part that decides dates. Eligible in-stock SKUs ship within two business days of the order and eligible made-to-order SKUs within seven, for up to 100 pieces, but only when every option on the ordering code comes from the blue-shaded side of Liteline’s ordering guide. One option from outside it and the whole SKU drops out of the program. That is the first thing we look for.
Procurement, and what made in Canada means on this line
Liteline is Canadian-owned and Canadian-made. A team of about 65 people engineers, wires, tests and finishes fixtures in more than 20,000 square feet of dedicated manufacturing space in Richmond Hill, installing the LED boards in-house, from a bill of materials that mixes Canadian and imported components. Liteline also runs a second distribution centre in Langley, British Columbia. When a public bid asks where each major good comes from, we confirm the origin of the specific SKUs on your schedule rather than answering for the brand.
| Manufacture | Richmond Hill, Ontario |
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| Distribution | Richmond Hill, Ontario and Langley, British Columbia |
| Listing | cETLus, on the current sheets we checked |
| Warranty | One year standard. Five years on Sigma and LED track heads, three on KLICK, seven on FORUM, EDGE and Shade. Selected products carry Liteline’s Gold Label lifetime warranty. Check the sheet for your SKU. |
| QuickShip | Two business days in stock, seven made to order, up to 100 pieces, blue-shaded options only. It is a ship time, not a delivery date. |
Listings, warranties and QuickShip terms are as Liteline publishes them today, and they change. We quote against the sheet for your SKU and confirm lead times with the factory, not the catalogue.
See the range
Browse the Liteline products published to our line card. Manufacturers maintain their own listings — if you can’t find what the drawing calls for, ask us.
Browse Liteline on the line cardTwo things worth knowing before you draw
Controls. LUNA 56 PRO is available with 0–10 V and DALI drivers, the two common ways a dimmer talks to a fixture, and with Lutron Hi-Lume 1% EcoSystem drivers, and the Genesis 6-inch recessed series adds Lutron Athena tunable white, Casambi and DMX. That makes Liteline one of the easier lines to put under a Lutron system, which matters because Lutron is the control line we commission most.
Voltage and output. Genesis spans 1,000 to 9,000 lumens (how much light comes out, as opposed to how much power goes in), and selected models run at 347 V as well as 120–277 V, with a wet-location rating and IP66. The IP rating is how well it is sealed against water and dust. On a Canadian commercial floor fed at 347 V, that saves a transformer. The top of the range lights a tall lobby from fewer points.
The range, and what each family is for
Liteline’s published families as they stand today. Tell us the ceiling and the condition you are solving, and we will send the current sheet for the family that fits.
| Sigma | Architectural recessed downlights: regressed, pinhole, gimbal, wall-wash and slope versions, round and square, at 90+ CRI. The 2-inch reaches 1,600 lumens, and selected models 4,400. Dim-to-warm versions are available. |
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| LUNA | Slim recessed downlights for where a housing will not fit. LUNA 56 PRO is IC-rated, airtight and wet-location, with an on-fixture switch from 2700K to 5000K. A gimbal version and a fire-rated LUNA Fire sit alongside it. |
| Genesis | Commercial recessed downlights and cylinders. Selected models reach 9,000 lumens at 90 CRI, with 347 V operation, IP66 wet-location construction and an emergency battery option. |
| KLICK | Powered track with modules that snap in and out: adjustable spots, double spots, lightbars and pendants. Surface, recessed into drywall, trimless or suspended, with corner pieces for continuous runs. |
| EDGE | Lay-in panels for a T-bar grid that carry the light to the edge of the tile. |
| FORUM | LED panels and linear for general office and back-of-house. |
| SlimLED | Ultra-thin downlights for ceilings with almost no depth above. The source sits at the ceiling plane, so it suits ceilings with no depth rather than glare-critical rooms. |
Where we’ve used it
Nine projects we have photographed, from a law society’s wall of crests to a childcare centre in Ottawa’s Greenbelt.
Federation of Law Societies of Canada
Ottawa — Track heads inside a timber waffle ceiling, and aimed off-axis across a wall of fourteen crests.
Carleton University Teraanga Commons
Ottawa — KLICK track over the serving stations of a university food hall.
Ottawa Forest and Nature School
Ottawa — Sigma2 downlights in the classrooms and corridors, soft enough for nap time.
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Ottawa — KLICK track grazing the art, with dozens of heads added on site once the collection was hung.
HISTORY Ottawa
Ottawa — LUNA Pro downlights on the schedule of a two-thousand-capacity music venue.
Smart & Biggar Montréal
Montréal — Liteline on a floor built never to repeat a fixture.
Canadian Commercial Corporation
Ottawa — LUNA downlights in the feature room beside reception.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Ottawa — KLICK track picking out the breakout gallery upstairs.
Kinaxis Headquarters
Kanata — Recessed downlights carrying the general and circulation light.
Good to know before you specify
LUNA’s colour temperature is set by a switch on the fixture, not by the part number. That is convenient for stock, and it means the schedule has to say which setting each room gets, or one corridor ends up at three colour temperatures. We write the setting on the schedule.
Warranty terms differ by family, from one year to lifetime, and QuickShip eligibility is decided option by option. We confirm both against the sheet for your SKU while the schedule is still open.
Common questions
Who represents Liteline in Ottawa?
Flux Lighting is the Liteline rep for Ottawa and Gatineau, across Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec.
Can I specify Liteline through Flux Lighting?
Yes. We select and lay out the Liteline families, run the photometrics, check QuickShip eligibility and price through your distributor. Send us the schedule or the reflected ceiling plan.
Send the schedule while the dates can still move
A QuickShip option, a trim or finish change, or a Lutron-ready driver are cheap decisions on a drawing and expensive ones once the order is placed.
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