Port Alberni Port Authority
portalberniport.ca/.com unreachable (DNS); portalberni.ca resolves to City of Port Alberni, not the port authority
Completeness
- Document shelf: 19 rows (19 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
- Backgrounder: on file
- Strategy-evolution brief: not written yet
- Custody audit: 18 of 19 row(s) audited, all clean
- Last verified: 2026-08-06 · this org has had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)
Endpoints
- Website: not yet verified
- Open data: not yet verified
- API: not yet verified
- RSS: not yet verified
- Newsroom: not yet verified
- FOI / access requests: not yet verified
Document shelf (19 rows)
| Year | Type | Title | Archive status | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2025 (EN) | archived | |
| 2024 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Consolidated Financial Statements 2024 | archived | |
| 2023 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Consolidated Financial Statements 2023 | archived | |
| 2021 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Consolidated Financial Statements 2021 | archived | new-row 2026-08-06: GOV-ATLAS-COMPLETENESS-SWEEP-d1 batch 1, P9-grounded this review |
| 2020 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2020 | archived | |
| 2019 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2019 | archived | |
| 2018 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2018 | archived | |
| 2017 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2017 | archived | |
| 2016 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2016 | archived | |
| 2015 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2015 | archived | |
| 2014 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2014 | archived | |
| 2013 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2013 | archived | |
| 2012 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2012 | archived | |
| 2011 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2011 | archived | |
| 2010 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2010 | archived | |
| 2009 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2009 | archived | ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-30; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-31; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-01; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-02 |
| 2008 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2008 | archived | ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-30; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-31; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-01; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-02 |
| 2007 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Financial Statements 2007 (Condensed) | archived | ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-30; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-31; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-01; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-02 |
| 2006 | Financial statements | Port Alberni Port Authority Audited Financial Statements 2006 | archived | ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-01; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-02 |
Backgrounder
Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.
Port Alberni Port Authority - backgrounder
Backgrounder / GOV-Q10-WAVE1-d1 / 2026-08-04 / registry row: fed-port-alberni-port-authority (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs
Mandate & statutory basis
The Port Alberni Port Authority (PAPA) is a Canada Port Authority continued under the Canada Marine Act, S.C. 1998, c. 10 (confirmed via the federal organizations directory profile for the Authority, https://federal-organizations.canada.ca/profil.php?OrgID=PTA&lang=en, fetched this review, which lists "Canada Marine Act (S.C. 1998, c. 10)" as the enabling legislation). Under the Act, Canada Port Authorities are mandated to be financially self-sufficient while satisfying the needs of port users at reasonable cost, maintaining a high level of safety and environmental protection, and managing marine infrastructure and services on a commercial basis (cited via search of Canada Marine Act port-authority governance material this review; the Authority's own site, papa-appa.ca, returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch throughout this review, so this framing is drawn from secondary sourcing of the same statutory language rather than a direct quote of PAPA's site).
Roles, responsibilities & scope
PAPA owns and operates the marine port infrastructure and services at Port Alberni, British Columbia, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, as one of Canada's Port Authorities under the Canada Marine Act regime (federal-organizations.canada.ca profile OrgID=PTA, fetched this review). Its registered document shelf is exclusively annual audited financial statements running from 2006 through 2025 (fed-port-alberni-port-authority-fs-2006 through -fs-2025, this library's government-document registry), consistent with a small, financially self-sufficient port authority whose principal public reporting obligation is its audited financials rather than a narrative annual report.
Governance & reporting line
PAPA's Board of Directors has seven members: one director each appointed directly by the municipal, provincial, and federal governments, plus four directors representing the Port's user groups as defined in the Authority's Letters Patent — Commodity Shippers, Marine Carriers, Service Providers, and Other Port Related Businesses. The four user-group directors are appointed by the Minister of Transport based on nominations from the Port's Advisory Nominating Committee, "in accordance with the Canada Marine Act and the Authority's Letters Patent," through "an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process" (City of Port Alberni republication of Port Authority governance information, https://alberni.ca/blogs/16-01-23/port-authoritys-board-directors, fetched this review; PAPA's own board-of-directors page, papa-appa.ca/board-of-directors/, returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch this review). Directors serve three-year terms, reappointable to a maximum of nine continuous years (same source).
Budget scale
⚠️ still being checked — PAPA's own registered financial statements (2006 through 2025, all listed in the registry) could not be fetched this review; papa-appa.ca and its wp-content PDF hosting both returned HTTP 403 to this tool on repeated attempts, and web search did not surface specific revenue or net-income figures. As a Canada Marine Act port authority PAPA is statutorily required to be financially self-sufficient (i.e., funded from port operating revenue rather than federal appropriations), but no dollar figure is confirmed here.
Institutional history
PAPA was "Established on July 1, 1999 under the Canada Marine Act (CMA)," becoming "one of 17 Canadian Port Authorities" at the time (City of Port Alberni republication of Port Authority information, https://alberni.ca/blogs/16-01-23/port-authoritys-board-directors, fetched this review; ⚠️ still being checked this founding date directly against papa-appa.ca in a future pass, since the Authority's own site could not be reached). The 1999 continuation date is consistent with the broader restructuring of Canadian port governance that year, when the Canada Marine Act (assented June 1998) came into force for most of Canada's major and regional ports following the wind-down of the Canada Ports Corporation and National Harbours Board era (general Canada Marine Act context, cited via search this review).
Strategy evolution brief
No strategy evolution brief written for this org yet.