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BCTECH Association

CA-E-4F29-V34CIssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$3.9MPublic money on record
3Municipal licences
6Employees reported
3Independent publishers
84/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-4F29-V34C
Address
1401 W 8TH AV, Vancouver, BC, V6H 1C9
Earliest record
September 8, 2021
Also known as
BC Tech
Identifiers held
Business number
137441333
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-113445
statcan-odbus
603956c69aa2f8e4bc20
Vancouver licence
4495299
Vancouver licence
4642841
Vancouver licence
4860527
Vancouver licence no.
24-113686
Vancouver licence no.
25-135118
Vancouver licence no.
26-137943
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Evidence depth
84/100
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

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 5 same-address neighbours.

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
80
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
40
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
53
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
0
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
51

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 Society4495299November 23, 2023Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4642841November 18, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860527December 8, 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.

At the same address (5)

Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 1401 W 8TH AVE.

OrganisationKind
Beau Photo Supplies Inc
CA-E-VA3E-JEBN
Licensed business
Inventa Sales & Promotions Inc
CA-E-Q3P7-T66M
Licensed business
Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Ltd
CA-E-MV29-VY09
Licensed business
Onica Technologies Canada Inc.
CA-E-1KNX-7E65
Public business record
Syreon Corporation
CA-E-WGHA-Z98M
Licensed business
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.

Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$3,853,293

across 5 agreements, 2021–2025

2021$459K
2023$2.2M
2025$1.2M
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
Licensed as
Association or Society
Industry code
561490 · 81 · 813910
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
  1. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  2. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$1,222,969
  3. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  4. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  5. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$1,100,000
  6. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$1,071,654
  7. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$229,335
  8. Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$229,335
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 V6H 1C9
    asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 1401 w 8th, 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
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
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, 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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