Licensed business

Tourism Industry Association of British Columbia

CA-E-WDW2-9BJTIssuedBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$578KPublic money on record

3Municipal licences

3Employees reported

3Independent publishers

84/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-WDW2-9BJT
Address: 948 HOWE ST, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1N9
Earliest record: October 27, 2020

Identifiers held

Business number: 135126043
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-113450
statcan-odbus: 43b5ca80f8823576dee1
Vancouver licence: 4495304
Vancouver licence: 4642846
Vancouver licence: 4860532
Vancouver licence no.: 24-113691
Vancouver licence no.: 25-135123
Vancouver licence no.: 26-137948

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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: 3 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

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.

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Association or Society	4495304	December 7, 2023	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4642846	December 2, 2024	Gone Out of Business
Vancouver	Association or Society	4860532	—	Inactive

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 (3)

Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 948 HOWE ST.

Organisation	Kind
Alliance Of Beverage Licensees CA-E-T346-HGJG	Licensed business
British Columbia Hotel Association CA-E-4JDH-S77V	Licensed business
Vancouver Green Spa Ltd CA-E-A3CY-RFVB	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

$577,500

across 4 agreements, 2020–2023

2020$100K

2021$440K

2023$38K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Western Economic Diversification Canada	2	$320,000
Pacific Economic Development Canada	2	$257,500

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: 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

December 2, 2024Licence first issued — Association or Society
December 7, 2023Licence first issued — Association or Society
March 29, 2023Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$37,500
August 3, 2021Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$220,000
August 3, 2021Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$220,000
October 27, 2020Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$100,000

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 V6Z 1N9
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 948 howe, 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 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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