Licensed business

Ba Robinson Co Ltd

CA-E-ZX9K-KXV1Gone Out of BusinessBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$252KPublic money on record

4Municipal licences

32Employees reported

3Independent publishers

86/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-ZX9K-KXV1
Address: 2285 CAMBIE ST, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T5
Earliest record: February 21, 2013

Identifiers held

odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-142984
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-152614
statcan-odbus: 467082a2b17e2f8b6c35
statcan-odbus: eeca566acebed1e99f3e
Vancouver licence: 4524106
Vancouver licence: 4533647
Vancouver licence: 4656213
Vancouver licence: 4660367
Vancouver licence no.: 24-143861
Vancouver licence no.: 24-153306
Vancouver licence no.: 25-148490
Vancouver licence no.: 25-152642

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Evidence depth

86/100

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.

Municipal licences (4)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food	4533647	November 27, 2023	Gone Out of Business
Vancouver	Retail Dealer	4524106	November 21, 2023	Gone Out of Business
Vancouver	Retail Dealer	4656213	—	Cancelled
Vancouver	Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food	4660367	—	Cancelled

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

$251,947

across 17 awards, 2013–2025

2013$32K

2014$20K

2015$14K

2016$12K

2017$17K

2019$12K

2022$13K

2023$52K

2024$21K

2025$59K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
National Defence	15	$192,485
Correctional Service of Canada	2	$59,462

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 · Wholesale Dealer
Licensed as: Retail Dealer · Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food
Industry code: 41
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

August 15, 2025Federal contract — Correctional Service of Canada$29,731
June 25, 2025Federal contract — Correctional Service of Canada$29,731
June 25, 2024Federal contract — National Defence$10,180
January 15, 2024Federal contract — National Defence$10,784
December 18, 2023Federal contract — National Defence$13,548
November 27, 2023Federal contract — National Defence$14,373
November 27, 2023Licence first issued — Wholesale Dealer - Non-Food
November 21, 2023Licence first issued — Retail Dealer
August 30, 2023Federal contract — National Defence$12,443
June 5, 2023Federal contract — National Defence$11,179
October 20, 2022Federal contract — National Defence$13,028
June 12, 2019Federal contract — National Defence$11,966
July 5, 2017Federal contract — National Defence$17,231
June 28, 2016Federal contract — National Defence$11,846
May 25, 2015Federal contract — National Defence$13,615
October 7, 2014Federal contract — National Defence$19,950
June 11, 2013Federal contract — National Defence$10,658
May 31, 2013Federal contract — National Defence$10,361
February 21, 2013Federal contract — National Defence$11,324

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 V5Z 2T5
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 2285 cambie, 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
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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