Boat Daycare is a parent run childcare centre, located between Trout Lake Park and 12th Ave., in east Vancouver, BC Canada – four short blocks from the Commercial Skytrain Station.They currently offer Licensed Child Care for 3 to 5 year olds. Note that they can only accept applications from families living within our catchment area: west of Nanaimo St., east of Clark Ave., north of 18th St. and south of 1st Ave.Through an initiative offered by the provincial goverment in the 1970s a group of families put together a proposal for a parent-run group daycare. The proposal was accepted. Boat Daycare opened its doors in spring 1974, and was licensed by the City of Vancouver in 1976.

Because a large number of the families involved in the startup of our daycare were working on and around the docks of Vancouver, and because the first play structure we had was a boat donated to the centre, it became known as Boat Daycare. The boat is long gone, but the promise of a parent-run daycare is still alive and kicking.The original administration and operation of the daycare was divided between the board, the parents and three full-time staff.

For more information, please visit http://boatdaycare.org/