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Business and Economy

Includes sites covering the business and economic activities of the region; including listings of companies and industries.

Please submit only sites relating to Vancouver. You can find a list of other localities in British Columbia here. If there are multiple locations for this site, consider Regional/North_America/Canada/British_Columbia/Regional_Districts/Greater_Vancouver or Regional/North_America/Canada/British_Columbia/Regions/Southwest

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Advertising and Marketing

Includes Vancouver based agencies, consultants, and services, but does not include photography. Photography sites are listed in the Arts and Entertainment category.

Sites geared specifically towards Internet marketing agencies should be submitted to the Computers and Internet subcategory.

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Topics include breeders, kennels, livestock, pets, and veterinary services. Sites about animal welfare and animal shelters are not listed here, but are listed instead in the Society and Culture category.

Sites about animal welfare issues and organizations should be submitted to Society_and_Culture/Animal_Welfare/

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Automotive

Automotive sites include new and used vehicle dealerships, repair shops, and related businesses.

This category is strictly for automotive businesses located in Vancouver city centre. Sites for businesses that are located in any of the suburbs of the Greater Vancouver area should be submitted to the appopriate locality.

Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Beauty and Cosmetic Services

This category is for the listing of personal services such as salons, spas, tanning facilities, manicurists, and other body decoration services such as tattooing and piercing.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Classifieds

Lists sites that offer online classifieds or classified ad services relevant to the city of Vancouver.

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Computers and Internet

Links to local businesses and organizations related to computers and the Internet. This includes sites for and about businesses that sell/rent computer hardware and software, computer training, web design, Internet access, and support services.

Please do not submit sites for search engines, portals or web directories. These should be listed under the geographic category or under the Guides and Directories sub-category if there is one.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Construction and Maintenance

Topics include architects, builders, janitorial services, and specialists in heating, air conditioning, and plumbing. Sites related to interior design and landscaping are not listed here, but are listed instead in the Home and Garden category.

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Employment

Provides sites related to local employment conditions, including placement agencies, human resources, and sites offering help in finding jobs in the local economy.

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Entertainment and Media

The entertainment industry, or "show business" as it is sometimes called, includes the motion picture, television, radio, music, theater, and theme park industries. In addition, it includes the entertainment-related aspects of several other industries such as sports, fashion, and gaming.

This category is for the listing of sites pertaining to the entertainment industry including but not limited to audio and video production, recording studios, and talent agencies.

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Event Planning

For the listing of sites related to wedding, corporate, party, and other event planning services, including caterers, guides, convention and exhibition services.

This category does not list actual exhibitions and conventions. These should be submitted to the category relevant to the main focus of the exhibition or convention.

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Financial Services

For the listing of banks, credit unions, lending institutions, insurance companies, accounting firms and providers of related financial services.

Please only submit sites belonging to banks, credit unions, lending institutions, insurance companies, accounting firms and providers of related financial services.

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Home and Garden

This category is for regional businesses and economic activity related to products and services intended for the home and garden. Examples of products include sellers of plants, swimming pools, and windows. Examples of services include suppliers of water softeners, interior design, lawn maintenance, and house-sitting.

Note: This category does not include sites about home repairs. Those sites are found in Construction and Maintenance. It also does not include sites for retail sellers of furniture, which are found in Furniture.

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Industrial

This category will list companies that produce products from raw materials and the companies that support them, such as distributors, wholesalers, industrial supply companies and manufacturing representatives. The general types of companies that will be listed here are food processing, aviation, conveyors, electronic, guns, instrumentation, mining, drilling, chemicals and textiles; however, the list is not limited to these industries.

Companies in industries that have a separate sub-category in Business and Economy will not be listed here. Examples of companies not listed here are agriculture, automotive, computers, home and garden, oil and gas, printing, publishing, and telecommunications.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Legal Services

This category is for sites offering information on legal services in the area including attorneys, notaries, and paralegals.

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Marine Sales and Services

For the listing of wet and/or dry marinas, slipways, boat manufacturers or builders, ship chandlers, dealers, marine service centers, outfitters, sailmakers, charter or hire craft and other related businesses.

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Mining and Drilling

The Mining and Drilling sector comprises industries and companies involved in extracting naturally occurring mineral solids, such as coal and ores; liquid minerals, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas; quarrying, well operations, beneficiating (e.g., crushing, screening, washing, and flotation), and other preparation customarily performed at the mine site, or as a part of mining activity.

Industries and companies involved in Oil and Gas extraction are listed under Oil and Gas

(Source: This category description is based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 1997).

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Oil and Gas

This category is for sites related to the extraction, production or supply of oil and gas products, including operating companies and holding companies, consultants, and service providers.

Sites relating only to oil and gas for the consumer (gas stations) are listed in the region's Shopping category.

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Organizations

Business organizations or trade associations based in or about Vancouver.

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Real Estate

Real estate agencies and agents with an office in Vancouver, as well as businesses offering rental property, broker, appraisal, or property management services.

Please use the following formatting:

Title for agents: Agent Name - Company Name
Title for companies: Company Name

Description: Services offered, areas of service, and features on the site such as virtual tours and online forms.

Once the site is listed, please do not submit again unless your site changes substantially, such as virtual tours are added or the agency name or location changes. If this occurs, please use the Update URL option to notify us. Multiple submissions of the same or different sites is abuse and against real estate guidelines.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Restaurants and Bars

This category is for restaurants and bars, including pubs and brew pubs located in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Please submit only sites dealing with restaurants, bars, pubs and brew pubs located in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Sites located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, but not within the City of Vancouver itself, should be listed in the Greater Vancouver: Business and Economy: Restaurants and Bars category, under their individual municipality categories if they exist, or directly if the appropriate municipality category does not exist.

When describing your site, please take time to read over the other listings in the category to get a sense of how the description should read. Basically, begin with a location within the city and the type of cuisine. Then make a list of what is found on your site. Remember that hype will be edited out and that this will delay publication of your listing.

Services

For Vancouver based types of services not covered in other categories. Examples include appliance repair, child care, house-sitting, errand-running, piano tuning, and language translations.

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Shipping, Storage, and Logistics

The focus of Shipping, Storage, and Logistics is the business of moving goods. This includes the storage, distribution and transportation of bulk commodities, other materials of commerce, packages, papers, and letters, via land, air and water for industrial, commercial and domestic purposes.

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Shopping

For retail shopping in the city of Vancouver. Please note that websites offering exclusively online shopping are not listed here, but are listed instead in the topical section of the directory for Online Shopping.

Businesses that offer only online, phone, or mail order sales will not be listed in Regional Shopping categories, with three exceptions:
(1) The B&E/Shopping category at the national level may contain online shopping sites if the prices are quoted in Canadian dollars and the products are shipped from Canada.
(2) Businesses that offer sales online or by phone/mail only to customers in a limited geographic area (example: online grocery delivery services) may be listed in a category corresponding to their sales area.
(3) Online shopping companies that have a substantial local presence (for example, as an employer) in the city where they base their operations may be considered for listing in that city. Note that many online retailers also maintain a bricks-and-mortar retail outlet as part of their operations base.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.