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Who is behind each room

British Columbia Casinos Online by Owner

The graph joins each owner or operator to the casinos it holds, year by year from 2024 to 2026. Pick a year, an owner or a casino to see its dated record.

By the Ledger Desk · Checked October 7 and 8, 2026

  • Holds or runs
  • Sale agreed
  • Owner or operator not published

Metro Vancouver

Thompson-Okanagan

Vancouver Island

The same record as a table
Each of the sixteen casinos, the company that runs or owns it, and since when.
CasinoRuns or owns it (October 2026)SinceSale agreed
Parq CasinoOwner and operator not named on its pages; latest dated record 2019
Hastings Casinosale agreed with Tsleil-Waututh Nationagreement November 7, 2025seller: Great Canadian Entertainment
Grand Villa Casino BurnabyGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorbefore 2024
Great Canadian Casino VancouverPetroglyph Development Group owner and operatorMay 5, 2026
River Rock Casino ResortPetroglyph Development Group co-owner
Musqueam Capital Corp co-owner		June 16, 2026
Starlight Casino New WestminsterGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorbefore 2024
Elements Casino Surreysale agreed with SE-MI-AH-MU Development Corporationagreement March 9, 2026seller: Great Canadian Entertainment
Cascades Casino DeltaGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorsince 2022
Cascades Casino LangleyGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorsince 2005
Cascades Casino KamloopsGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorsince 2015
Playtime Casino KelownaGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorsince 2002
Lake City Casino VernonGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorsince 2002
Cascades Casino PentictonGateway Casinos & Entertainment operatorsince 2002
Elements Casino VictoriaPetroglyph Development Group owner and operatorJanuary 16, 2025
Casino NanaimoPetroglyph Development Group owner and operatorJanuary 16, 2025
RimRock CasinoOperating company not named on its pages

Who runs each area

River at dusk with a log boom and a truss bridge

9casinos

Metro Vancouver

Gateway runs four, Great Canadian runs two under sale agreements, Petroglyph owns one, Petroglyph and Musqueam Capital own one, Parq names no owner.

All sixteen rooms

What changed since 2024

On January 16, 2025, Petroglyph Development Group closed its purchase of Casino Nanaimo and Elements Casino Victoria from Great Canadian. Petroglyph is wholly owned by Snuneymuxw First Nation. The two sales had been announced on June 24 and September 10, 2024. Petroglyph's own wording is that all profits, in its phrase, "go back to the Nation".

Petroglyph took over Great Canadian Casino Vancouver in Coquitlam on May 5, 2026, under a sale first announced on December 19, 2025. Under a limited licence, the Great Canadian name stays with the casino. Since June 16, 2026, River Rock Casino Resort has belonged to a partnership formed by Petroglyph and Musqueam Capital Corp, a company of the Musqueam Indian Band.

Two more sales have been agreed. Great Canadian agreed to sell the casino portion of Hastings to Tsleil-Waututh Nation, with a definitive agreement on November 7, 2025. On March 9, 2026, it agreed to sell Elements Casino Surrey to SE-MI-AH-MU Development Corporation of Semiahmoo First Nation. Each step, with its date, is set out in the change log.

Latest in the record

  1. River Rock Casino Resort passes to Petroglyph Development Group and Musqueam Capital Corp
  2. Petroglyph Development Group takes over Great Canadian Casino Vancouver
  3. The Independent Gambling Control Office becomes BC's gambling regulator; the new Gaming Control Act comes into force
  4. Agreement to sell Elements Casino Surrey to SE-MI-AH-MU Development Corporation, Semiahmoo First Nation
  5. Sale of Great Canadian Casino Vancouver to Petroglyph Development Group first announced

The full change log

What stays the same on the floor

For a guest, the rules on the floor do not change with the owner. BCLC conducts and manages casino gambling for the province in all sixteen rooms, and private companies run them. The page on what BCLC does sets out that role.

Some entry rules apply everywhere. Nobody under 19 may enter. Since June 2023, guests show government-issued photo ID when they arrive, and staff compare it with the self-exclusion list.

Fifteen of the sixteen casinos name Encore Rewards, the same players' card; RimRock Casino does not describe one. Anyone harmed by gambling can see a GameSense Advisor, who is available at each casino in British Columbia.

Playing online in BC

Online gambling in British Columbia follows the same age rule as casinos: players must be 19 or older. No other online gambling site besides PlayNow.com is legal in the province. In a statement dated August 28, 2026, the IGCO held that any other online gambling site admitting BC players is breaking the law in the province.

The home page is the one page of this guide that carries paid links, and each of them is marked Ad. Their destination is a private online casino. BC holds no licence over it and plays no part in running it, and PlayNow is a separate operation. For a BC resident playing there, no provincial protection applies, and that includes Game Break as well as the limits set by PlayNow. The IGCO does not accept complaints about that site.

A commission goes to the site from these links, and the partner is not fixed. All of these points appear together on the Online in BC page.

Questions on the record

Who runs most of the casinos in this guide?

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited runs eight of the sixteen casinos in this guide. Four are in Metro Vancouver: Grand Villa Casino Burnaby, Starlight Casino New Westminster, Cascades Casino Delta and Cascades Casino Langley. The other four are the Thompson-Okanagan casinos in Kamloops, Kelowna, Vernon and Penticton.

Which casinos have passed to First Nations ownership since 2024?

Petroglyph Development Group of Snuneymuxw First Nation took Casino Nanaimo and Elements Casino Victoria on January 16, 2025. It took over Great Canadian Casino Vancouver on May 5, 2026. Since June 16, 2026, River Rock Casino Resort has belonged to Petroglyph and to Musqueam Capital Corp, a company of the Musqueam Indian Band.

Has Hastings Casino been sold?

Great Canadian signed a definitive agreement on November 7, 2025, to sell the casino portion of Hastings to Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Who sets the rules for guests?

BCLC manages casino gambling for the province in every casino in this guide, whoever owns it. Staff admit guests aged 19 or older who carry government-issued photo ID, and they check that ID against the self-exclusion list.

Is this site a casino?

It works as an independent guide and does not take wagers or hold accounts. On the home page, paid links marked Ad send readers to a partner online casino, and a commission goes to the site.

Where to find help

1-888-795-6111
  • Gambling Support BC answers at 1-888-795-6111, without charge, around the clock every day, and supports those touched by the gambling of someone close to them.
  • Callers speak with a navigator, who can give immediate help, point to local services or arrange a counsellor at no cost.
  • Game Break, the voluntary self-exclusion program, has a shortest term of 6 months and longer terms of 1 year, 2 years and 3 years; once chosen, a term is fixed.

Gambling support across British Columbia