Flickr was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.

The opening shot for the premiere took three months for special effects supervisor Lee Wilson's Vancouver-based company to complete.

Two diamond-hunting geologists hired by a small Vancouver-based company, Diamond Field Resources, noticed a rusty rock outcropping from a helicopter.

It was to be a Vancouver-based company with a regional mission, to bring ballet to the various centers of its home province.

One of the visiting cards was from U-Enterprises Ltd., a Vancouver-based company that was founded in April 1998.

De Beers is thought likely to eventually gain control of its first North American diamond mine by purchasing Winspear Diamonds, a small Vancouver-based company.

Miss Neary, who is 46 years old, signed a five-year contract with the Vancouver-based classical ballet company, which was founded in 1986.

It claims that it has an exclusive license for paclitaxel on coronary stents from Angiotech, a Vancouver-based company.

Robertson went on to co-found Happy Planet, a Vancouver-based company that produces and markets organic fruit beverages.

One Vancouver-based company started a large for-profit family medical clinic specializing in screening and preventive medicine here last November.