Licensed business

Create Vancouver Society

CA-E-3HQF-5TDFIssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$2.0MPublic money on record

5Municipal licences

10Employees reported

3Independent publishers

87/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-3HQF-5TDF
Address: 2410 COLUMBIA ST, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3E6
Earliest record: July 17, 2018
Also known as: Vancouver Mural Festival · Winter Arts Festival 2025

Identifiers held

Business number: 776758096
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:21-288228
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-113614
statcan-odbus: 2d56be0fd6f130adc552
statcan-odbus: d251e24a294d0b1592d7
Vancouver licence: 4495433
Vancouver licence: 4571998
Vancouver licence: 4642974
Vancouver licence: 4699597
Vancouver licence: 4860657
Vancouver licence no.: 24-113830
Vancouver licence no.: 24-259920

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Evidence depth

87/100

Deep 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

Operationslicences and operating places

Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce

Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations

Regulatorydecided public findings

Historydated span and recorded events

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 (5)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Association or Society	4495433	December 15, 2023	Issued
Vancouver	Special Events	4571998	August 7, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4642974	December 20, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Special Events	4699597	—	Pending
Vancouver	Association or Society	4860657	—	Gone Out of Business

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

$1,971,247

across 24 agreements, 2018–2024

2018$9K

2019$96K

2020$125K

2021$910K

2022$121K

2023$577K

2024$132K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Pacific Economic Development Canada	2	$818,738
Canadian Heritage	9	$630,700
Western Economic Diversification Canada	1	$368,738
Employment and Social Development Canada	12	$153,071

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

Trade: Community Association · Exhibitions/Shows/Concerts · Other
Licensed as: Association or Society · Special Events
Industry code: 711322 · 81 · 813310
North American Industry Classification System

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. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.

Timeline

December 20, 2024Licence first issued — Association or Society
October 1, 2024Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$41,400
August 7, 2024Licence first issued — Special Events
April 22, 2024Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,086
April 1, 2024Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
December 15, 2023Licence first issued — Association or Society
April 24, 2023Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,968
April 24, 2023Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,984
April 1, 2023Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$61,700
February 16, 2023Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$40,000
January 4, 2023Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$450,000
April 25, 2022Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,018
April 25, 2022Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,450
April 1, 2022Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$99,800
September 9, 2021Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$368,738
September 9, 2021Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$368,738
August 1, 2021Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$80,000
April 26, 2021Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$25,536
April 1, 2021Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$67,300
May 15, 2020Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$23,269
April 1, 2020Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,200
April 23, 2019Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,512
April 1, 2019Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$80,700
July 17, 2018Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,108

Why this is one record

3 public datasets from 3 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 V5Y 3E6
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 2410 columbia, vancouver, BC
asserted by Statistics Canada and 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

Dataset	Last captured	Cadence	Coverage kept	Health
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 3, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada	—	—	—	not measured
Vancouver business licences City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver	October 15, 2026	P1M	3 captures · 1 comparisons	current

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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