Registers and Provincial Authorization

To know whether an online casino is authorized where you live, check your province’s own list, not the licence on the site. Ontario publishes iGaming Ontario’s directory of regulated sites, which listed 49 operators and 84 websites, accurate as of September 1, 2026. Alberta has two: the Alberta iGaming Corporation’s list of registered sites, with 51 entries when we read it on October 19, 2026, and AGLC’s register of gaming registrants, which listed 42 iGaming operators, each with an expiry date. British Columbia and Quebec have no list of private operators because they authorize none: the Government of BC says PlayNow.com is the only legal online gambling site in BC, and Loto-Québec says its site is the only legal and local one in Québec. Licence registers abroad, such as Malta’s, Curaçao’s or the Tobique Gaming Commission’s, tell you whether a company holds that licence, not whether a province has authorized it.

What this section covers, and why

A logo, a licence number or “accepts Canadian players” on a casino’s own site proves nothing about provincial authorization. What does is a listing in an official provincial source. This section explains each official list: who publishes it, what it shows, how current it is, and what it cannot tell you. It also explains what the main licence registers outside Canada publish, so a licence on a site can be checked for what it is.

What does each provincial list show?

• Ontario: iGaming Ontario’s directory. It lists regulated operators and links each one’s website, and states the date it is accurate as of. iGaming Ontario says every site offered by a fully registered and approved operator displays the iGaming Ontario and BetGuard logos. OLG.ca is part of the regulated market under OLG’s own conduct and management.
• Alberta: two lists. The Alberta iGaming Corporation’s list names each registered site and the company that operates it; it shows no date. AGLC’s register of gaming registrants, downloadable as a file, gives each registrant’s class of registration and expiry date. The Alberta iGaming Corporation adds that a site regulated in Alberta shows its logo and the Responsible Gambling Council’s RG Check seal.
• British Columbia and Quebec. No list of private operators exists. The provincial sites are PlayNow.com, run by BCLC, and lotoquebec.com, run by Loto-Québec.

What do licence registers outside Canada show?

• Tobique Gaming Commission. Its License Holders page listed 173 B2C and 24 B2B entries on October 19, 2026, by company name with licence type and expiry date, but without licence numbers or websites. Licence seals can link to a validation page that names the company and its websites.
• Curaçao Gaming Authority. It publishes a licence register by licensee company and an enforcement register, and warns that its overviews do not guarantee current validity. On October 19, 2026 its home page said its online gaming portal was offline during a move to a new platform.
• Malta Gaming Authority. It publishes a Licensee Register and a URL Checker.
• Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission. It publishes a list of permit holders.
• Anjouan. We could not find an official public register of licensees.

None of these licences is an Ontario or Alberta authorization. Each tells you which regulator stands behind the company, not what the province allows.

The guides in this section

• Curaçao, Anjouan and Tobique licences. What each licence means for players in Alberta and Ontario, what each regulator publishes, and a table comparing nine licences and provincial authorizations.
• DraftKings in Alberta. A worked example of checking one operator in Alberta’s two official lists, including its registration expiry date.

How we checked

We read iGaming Ontario’s directory on October 19, 2026 and again from an Ontario connection on October 20, the Alberta iGaming Corporation’s list and AGLC’s register on October 19, and the Tobique, Curaçao, Malta and Kahnawà:ke pages on October 19 and 20. Counts are as shown on the day we read each list. For the provincial frameworks behind these lists, see our page on who regulates online casinos in Ontario and our guide to Alberta’s rules after the July 2026 launch.

What we could not confirm

• An official public register for Anjouan licences.
• The date of the Alberta iGaming Corporation’s list: the page shows none.
• Changes to iGaming Ontario’s directory after September 1, 2026.

Check a site in two minutes

Copy the exact website address from your browser. In Ontario, search for it in iGaming Ontario’s directory; in Alberta, search the Alberta iGaming Corporation’s list and then look up the operator in AGLC’s register with its expiry date. In BC or Quebec, compare the address with PlayNow.com or lotoquebec.com. If the site is not there, a licence from elsewhere does not change the answer.