Federal corporation

Black Tusk Geophysics INC.

Legal name on the register: BLACK TUSK GEOPHYSICS INC.

CA-E-QM3H-92T2ActiveBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources

$104KPublic money on record

3Municipal licences

10Employees reported

4Independent publishers

95/100Evidence depth

October 24, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-QM3H-92T2
Address: #401, 1755 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V6J 4S5
Earliest record: September 24, 2012

Identifiers held

Business number: 849147137
Corporation number: 8308403
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-135368
statcan-odbus: 4632a8cfc710750b9608
Vancouver licence: 4516304
Vancouver licence: 4647178
Vancouver licence: 4865033
Vancouver licence no.: 24-135587
Vancouver licence no.: 25-139455
Vancouver licence no.: 26-142449

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Evidence depth

95/100

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.

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)	Canada Business Corporations Act	8308403	September 24, 2012	Active

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Consulting and Management Services	4516304	November 20, 2023	Issued
Vancouver	Consulting and Management Services	4647178	March 19, 2025	Issued
Vancouver	Consulting and Management Services	4865033	November 14, 2025	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.

Public money on record

Federal contracts

$104,149

across 2 awards, 2012–2012

Paying institution	Awards	Value
National Defence	2	$104,149

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: Consultant · Office
Licensed as: Consulting and Management Services
Industry code: 54
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

November 14, 2025Licence first issued — Consulting and Management Services
March 19, 2025Licence first issued — Consulting and Management Services
November 20, 2023Licence first issued — Consulting and Management Services
December 12, 2012Federal contract — National Defence$52,493
November 6, 2012Federal contract — National Defence$51,656
September 24, 2012Registered — Canada Business Corporations Act

Why this is one record

4 public datasets from 4 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 V6J 4S5
asserted by Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 1755 w broadway, 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 publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 1, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Federal corporations — active business corporations Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada	October 24, 2026	P1D	11 captures · 10 comparisons	due
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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