Licensed business
Vancouver Aquarium Ltd
CA-E-V98Y-6A46IssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$2.2MPublic money on record
12Municipal licences
300Employees reported
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-V98Y-6A46
- Address
- 845 AVISON WAY, Vancouver, BC, V6G 3E2
- Earliest record
- July 7, 2010
Identifiers held
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-116360
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-117079
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-145201
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-148776
- odbus-licence
- Government of British Columbia:208988
- statcan-odbus
- 287c7a760c3da895d25c
- statcan-odbus
- 6106b305b3d813383927
- statcan-odbus
- 670b7a5b47d44e773797
- statcan-odbus
- 6b576cb0c41735d92410
- statcan-odbus
- de7ebf9ebd43410ed282
- Vancouver licence
- 4497737
- Vancouver licence
- 4498493
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Evidence depth
86/100
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
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
58
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
85
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 (12)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Retail Dealer | 4525567 | December 4, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Trade Contractor | 4497737 | December 4, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Exhibition Centre | 4498493 | December 4, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Restaurant | 4529530 | December 4, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Retail Dealer | 4657591 | January 15, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Trade Contractor | 4614495 | January 15, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Exhibition Centre | 4608697 | November 13, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Restaurant | 4617138 | January 15, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Exhibition Centre | 4823677 | December 5, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Retail Dealer | 4875767 | February 11, 2026 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Trade Contractor | 4829955 | February 11, 2026 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Restaurant | 4832679 | February 11, 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.
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$759,204
across 15 awards, 2010–2024
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 12 | $718,259 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2 | $24,500 |
| Public Services and Procurement Canada | 1 | $16,445 |
Federal grants and contributions
$1,419,237
across 4 agreements, 2012–2022
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 3 | $1,269,315 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 1 | $149,922 |
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
- Aquarium · Electrical Contractor · Entertainment Services · Gifts/Novelties · No Liquor Service · Restaurant Class 1 · Retail Dealer
- Licensed as
- Exhibition Centre · Restaurant · Retail Dealer · Trade Contractor
- Industry code
- 23 · 72North 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
- Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
- Licence first issued — Trade Contractor
- Licence first issued — Restaurant
- Licence first issued — Exhibition Centre
- Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
- Licence first issued — Trade Contractor
- Licence first issued — Restaurant
- Licence first issued — Exhibition Centre
- Federal contract — Public Services and Procurement Canada$16,445
- Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
- Licence first issued — Trade Contractor
- Licence first issued — Exhibition Centre
- Licence first issued — Restaurant
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$377,420
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$1,090,865
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$187,580
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$10,395
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$51,950
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$10,976
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$22,885
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$10,500
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,900
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$126,500
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$22,800
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$9,600
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$14,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$149,922
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$9,500
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,203
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$13,720
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$22,280
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 V6G 3E2asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 845 avison, 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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