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Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

CA-E-09D3-994GIssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver2 independent sources
$190KPublic money on record
3Municipal licences
10Employees reported
2Independent publishers
74/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-09D3-994G
Address
555 W HASTINGS ST, Vancouver, BC, V6B 4N6
Earliest record
July 19, 2019
Identifiers held
Business number
127809036
Vancouver licence
4495545
Vancouver licence
4643086
Vancouver licence
4860769
Vancouver licence no.
24-189754
Vancouver licence no.
25-135363
Vancouver licence no.
26-138185
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Evidence depth
74/100
Layered record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
65
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
40
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
37
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
0
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
54

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Municipal licences (3)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4495545March 7, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4643086December 18, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860769November 25, 2025Issued

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$189,937

across 1 agreement, 2019–2019

Paying institutionAwardsValue
Natural Resources Canada1$189,937
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
Licensed as
Association or Society
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth.
Timeline
  1. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  2. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  3. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  4. Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada$189,937
Why this is one record

2 public datasets from 2 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Same name and postal code V6B 4N6
    asserted by City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 555 w hastings, vancouver, BC
    asserted by City of Vancouver

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Vancouver business licences
City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver
October 15, 2026P1M3 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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