Vancouver (is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city with over 250,000 residents in North America, behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 52% of its residents are not native English speakers, 48.9% are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 50.6% of residents belong to visible minority groups. Vancouver is consistently named as one of the top five worldwide cities for livability and quality of life, and the Economist Intelligence Unit acknowledged it as the first city ranked among the top ten of the world's most well-living cities for ten consecutive years. In 2011, the city planned to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning design philosophy. Vancouver was originally named Gastown and began as a settlement which grew around the site of a makeshift tavern on the western edges of Hastings Mill built on July 1, 1867, and owned by proprietor Gassy Jack.
| # | Company | Locations in Vancouver | Job ads/yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vancouver Coastal Health | North Vancouver | 2,313 |
| 2 | University of British Columbia | 1,918 | |
| 3 | UBC Faculty of Forestry | 1,213 | |
| 4 | The University of British Columbia | 962 | |
| 5 | lululemon | 840 | |
| 6 | Providence Healthcare | North Vancouver | 700 |
| 7 | Provincial Health Services Authority | 672 | |
| 8 | Amazon Canada | 662 | |
| 9 | PeaceHealth | Walnut Grove, Vancouver | 619 |
| 10 | Royal Bank of Canada | 598 | |
| 11 | PHSA | North Vancouver | 572 |
| 12 | City of Vancouver | Vancouver | 481 |
| 13 | Electronic Arts | 469 | |
| 14 | SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY | 469 | |
| 15 | Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC | 431 | |
| 16 | Electronic Arts EA | 423 | |
| 17 | Telus | West End | 407 |
| 18 | Alignerr | 400 | |
| 19 | AccorHotel | 392 | |
| 20 | Wsp Canada | West End, Felida | 389 |
| 21 | Vancity | Mount Pleasant | 387 |
| 22 | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 382 | |
| 23 | TEEMA | North Vancouver | 375 |
| 24 | Scotiabank | 349 | |
| 25 | Starbucks | Walnut Grove | 342 |
Number of companies with job ads mentioning the technology