Licensed business
Arbutus Medical Inc
CA-E-MR17-0PGBIssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$2.6MPublic money on record
6Municipal licences
16Employees reported
3Independent publishers
90/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-MR17-0PGB
- Address
- 2520 COLUMBIA ST, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3E9
- Earliest record
- January 9, 2015
Identifiers held
- Business number
- 821683380
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-129268
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-138991
- statcan-odbus
- 10038c1ac2499a1b5349
- statcan-odbus
- 16c1787f9dd792e637ed
- Vancouver licence
- 4510855
- Vancouver licence
- 4518642
- Vancouver licence
- 4642042
- Vancouver licence
- 4645991
- Vancouver licence
- 4859685
- Vancouver licence
- 4863782
- Vancouver licence no.
- 24-129967
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Evidence depth
90/100
Deep recordThis 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: 1 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
51
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
40
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
73
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
0
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
84
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 (6)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor | 4510855 | November 24, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Business Support Services | 4518642 | November 24, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Business Support Services | 4645991 | November 19, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor | 4642042 | February 21, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Business Support Services | 4863782 | November 18, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor | 4859685 | February 18, 2026 | Issued |
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 (1)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 2520 COLUMBIA ST.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| CFWS Enterprises Inc CA-E-1068-E7N3 | 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.
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 contracts
$917,560
across 1 award, 2019–2019
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 1 | $917,560 |
Federal grants and contributions
$1,641,915
across 21 agreements, 2015–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| National Research Council Canada | 19 | $1,240,395 |
| Pacific Economic Development Canada | 1 | $400,000 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 1 | $1,520 |
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.
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
- Administration · Manufacturer · Office · Other
- Licensed as
- Business Support Services · Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor
- Industry code
- 334512 · 339110 · 56North 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
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$75,000
- Licence first issued — Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor
- Licence first issued — Business Support Services
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$30,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$250,000
- Licence first issued — Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor
- Licence first issued — Business Support Services
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$75,000
- Licence first issued — Non-Food Manufacturer Assembler and Processor
- Licence first issued — Business Support Services
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$6,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$32,500
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$165,500
- Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$400,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$22,500
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$50,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$18,750
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$20,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$41,250
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$50,000
- Federal contract — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$917,560
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$30,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$49,900
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$1,520
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$93,995
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$150,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$50,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$30,000
Why this is one record
4 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 3E9asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 2520 columbia, vancouver, BCasserted 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 publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| 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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