Snapshot: the August 7, 2026 publishable directory contains 300 course profiles across 212 Canadian cities and towns. 227 profiles have explicit venue, municipal, tourism or other local-source evidence; ranking pages with weaker evidence remain visible while the Research Desk seeks a stronger source.
What this analysis measures
This is an analysis of Mini Golf Canada's own directory dataset, not a census of every operating course in Canada. A profile is included when it passes the current publishing gate: explicit source evidence or an established Search Console footprint without a conflicting official source. Pages for known non-course businesses and unsupported, non-performing profiles are excluded from directory discovery.
| Region | Profiles | Cities and towns |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario | 111 | 79 |
| Quebec | 65 | 49 |
| Alberta | 40 | 24 |
| British Columbia | 34 | 24 |
| Saskatchewan | 16 | 12 |
| Manitoba | 11 | 8 |
| New Brunswick | 9 | 6 |
| Prince Edward Island | 6 | 3 |
| Nova Scotia | 5 | 4 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 2 | 2 |
| Yukon | 1 | 1 |
Course-format signals
Feature counts come only from structured profile fields and source text. A missing signal means “not established in this dataset,” not “the venue does not offer it.” One profile can appear in several rows.
| Signal | Profiles | Share of sample |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor play | 58 | 19.3% |
| Outdoor play | 54 | 18.0% |
| Glow or black-light | 39 | 13.0% |
| Birthday information | 105 | 35.0% |
| Arcade on property | 64 | 21.3% |
| Accessibility signal | 241 | 80.3% |
| Seasonal signal | 3 | 1.0% |
Where a hole count was explicit and passed the context check, the most frequent values were 18-hole (109 profiles), 9-hole (30 profiles), 12-hole (5 profiles), 10-hole (4 profiles), 6-hole (4 profiles). The extractor ignores unrelated full-size golf holes and implausible numbers, so many legitimate courses remain unclassified.
Source coverage
227 of 300 publishable profiles (75.7%) currently have explicit mini-golf evidence in a venue, municipal, tourism or local source. The remaining protected profiles rely more heavily on structured business data. They stay available because people already find them in search, but their pages avoid invented course detail and invite an official correction or source.
Limits and update policy
- Businesses open, close and change activities after a source check.
- Small seasonal courses can have little or no crawlable web presence.
- A failed crawler request is recorded as unavailable, never interpreted as closure.
- Feature percentages describe known evidence, not nationwide prevalence.
- Directory totals change only after a substantive listing or quality-gate update; rebuilding the site alone does not reset page dates.
The editorial policy explains source priority, corrections and automation. Venue owners can use the submission page to supply a current official URL and improve an existing profile.