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.

We currently offer Licensed Child Care for 3 to 5 year olds. Note that we 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.

We have an extremely extensive waitlist and are unable at this time to accept applications outside of our catchment area. Due to the volume of calls we are unable to reply by phone to all inquiries. If you would like to add your child to the waitlist, please pick up a form in the mailbox located by the front door. Visits to the daycare may be arranged if your child is offered a spot. Applications are typically reviewed in May when upcoming vacancies are confirmed.

To keep our doors open to kids in the community we fundraise to help offset the recent cuts in daycare funding across the province.

Gifts for this year's raffle generously donated by:

- Arc'teryx - women's fleece jacket

- Berry Good Pies - 2 homemade you-bake fruit pies

- Bikram Yoga - $26 gift certificate

- Cafe Etico/Cafe Justicia - fair trade basket (coffee, tea sugar, chocolate, spices)

- California Closets - $500 gift certificate

- Cassis Bistro Tapas Lounge - $40 gift certificate

- Childs Own Studio - 1 custom made soft toy

- Dandelion Kids - set of Bugaboo Cameleon Top Fabrics

- Eastside Stationery (1458 Commercial Drive) - Brera Acrylic Paint Set

- The Flower Box (1704 Charles Street) - $25 gift certificate

- Famous Foods (1595 Kingsway) - 2 gift certificates for $25

- Grandview Lanes - Bowling party for four

- Green Zebra Local Savings Guide - 2 x $25 coupon books

- Free House Wine and Spirits - 6 bottles of wine

- It's All Fun & Games (1308 Commercial Drive) - $20 gift certificate

- Kyba Arts - 2 stoneware vases

- Little Earth - $10 gift certificate

- Little Nest Restaurant - $25 gift certificate

- Meals for Mums Delivery - $30 gift certificate

- Miranda's Hats (3860 Main St.) - grab bag

- The Old Spaghetti Factory (53 Water Street) - $30 gift certificate plus two $10 gift certificates

- Pane Vero Bakery and Cafe (952 Commercial Drive) - $30 gift certificate

- Provence Marinaside - $120 gift certificate

- Roundel Cafe (2465 Hastings Street East) - $25 gift certificate

- Schokolade Cafe - chocolate making workshop for 5 kids

- Ten Thousand Villages - Latin Playground CD with CD holder

- Unity Yoga - 10 free classes

- Uprising Bakery - $25 gift certificate

- Vancouver Chrysler Dodge Jeep - 1 free oil change

- Vancouver Farmer's Market - bag of assorted organic eateries and $20 gift certificate to Eat Local, Farmers Market

- Katayoon Webb (RE/MAX Crest Realty Westside) - $100 gift basket from Meinhart Fine Foods, $100 gift basket from Capers

- Wee Ones Reruns - $25 gift certificate

- Wheelhouse Seafoods (2605 Hastings Street East) - 1 whole wild salmon

Additional prizes:

- 1 red zip-up jacket (World Cup Kvitfjell)

- 2 blue Hemptown t-shirts

- 2 pair, Ginch Gonch men's underwear

- 1 fuschia/green hand-knitted scarf

- 1 $25 gift certificate - Stella's Indendio West

- 1 free children's bike helmet and fitting - Bikes on the Drive

- 1 $50 gift certificate - Mountain Equipment Co-op

- family set - Hole Soles

- 1 bike trailer

- 1 Pretend Soup preschool cookbook

- 1 hand-dyed knitted wool scarf

- 1 cast and crew Nike jacket from JUNO

- shower gel and lotion from Healing Garden