Federal corporation

Massy Books Inc.

CA-E-V9SQ-PPPKActiveBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources

$180KPublic money on record

3Municipal licences

4Employees reported

4Independent publishers

92/100Evidence depth

October 24, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-V9SQ-PPPK
Address: 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, V6A 1Z6
Earliest record: November 1, 2020

Identifiers held

Business number: 794876664
Corporation number: 12444917
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-144231
statcan-odbus: f624d65036ba1294492a
Vancouver licence: 4525040
Vancouver licence: 4657124
Vancouver licence: 4875345
Vancouver licence no.: 24-144862
Vancouver licence no.: 25-149401
Vancouver licence no.: 26-152761

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Evidence depth

92/100

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	12444917	November 1, 2020	Active

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Retail Dealer	4525040	November 21, 2023	Issued
Vancouver	Retail Dealer	4657124	November 20, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Retail Dealer	4875345	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 grants and contributions

$179,998

across 4 agreements, 2022–2023

2022$109K

2023$71K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Canadian Heritage	3	$164,998
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	1	$15,000

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: Other · Retail Dealer
Licensed as: Retail Dealer

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.

Timeline

November 14, 2025Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
November 20, 2024Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
November 21, 2023Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
July 17, 2023Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$15,000
April 1, 2023Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$55,886
December 1, 2022Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$99,977
April 1, 2022Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$9,135
November 1, 2020Registered — 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 V6A 1Z6
asserted by Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 229 e georgia, vancouver, BC
asserted by Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and 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
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
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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