About this guide
About the Ledger Desk
The Ledger Desk is the collective name under which Whose Room is written and signed, not a person. It keeps a dated record of who runs the sixteen casinos in this guide, across three areas of British Columbia.
By the Ledger Desk · Checked October 7 and 8, 2026
Why trace owners
Every casino in this guide works under BCLC, which manages commercial gambling for the provincial government. That holds at Parq Casino, RimRock Casino and Cascades Casino Penticton alike.
The companies behind those floors are a different matter. Since January 2025, four casinos in this guide have passed to First Nations ownership. Casino Nanaimo and Elements Casino Victoria changed hands on January 16, 2025. Great Canadian Casino Vancouver followed on May 5, 2026, and River Rock Casino Resort on June 16, 2026. Hastings Casino and Elements Casino Surrey are under agreements of sale to First Nations.
Whose Room follows those changes room by room, with dates. The Ledger Desk signs every page as a group, and no page carries a personal byline.
How the record is checked
Each fact on this site was checked on October 7 and 8, 2026. The sources are the casinos' own pages, the operators' and owners' news releases and provincial sources, each with its date.
In British Columbia, BCLC conducts and manages casino gambling, and private service providers run the casinos. On this site, "runs" names the company that operates a casino. "Owns" appears only where an owner or a sale is published.
Where a casino's pages give different figures, the guide says so and leaves the figure out. Where no owner is published, the guide says that and names no one, as with Parq Casino.