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Elisa Aquilini
Francesco Aquilini
Paolo Aquilini
Roberto Aquilini
A numbered company, 038769 BC Ltd., operates and manages the partnership. Individual partners: Elisa Aquilini, Francesco Aquilini, Roberto Aquilini, Paolo Aquilini. Luigi is not listed. Corporate entity partners: Elisa Aquilini Family Trust, Francesco Aquilini Family Trust, Roberto Aquilini Family Trust, Paolo Aquilini Family Trust, 215 St Jacques Partnership, Atlantic Hotels Partnership, H&A Hotels Partnership, Saint-Laurent-Faubourg Partnership, West Edmonton Village Partnership, The Gardens Partnership, The Atrium Investments Trust. Under the partnership, through a dizzying array of hundreds of named and numbered companies, are investments many wholly owned by the family and others with outside partners. They involve several broad areas:
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Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver Canucks: NHL hockey team (owned through a series of interwoven partnerships) Rogers Arena: a 19,700seat arena with 88 luxury suites and 12 hospitality suites (18,910 seats for hockey). Utica Comets: Canucks farm team of the American Hockey League. Breakaway Pay-Per-View: a one-third ownership with Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers to broadcast NHL games (recently disbanded). Also: Ancillary hospitality and advertising divisions that service Rogers Arena.
Charities
Charities the Aquilinis set up: Canucks for Kids Fund Canucks Autism Network Canuck Place Childrens Hospice Canucks for Kids Find Childhood Diabetes Laboratories. Aquilini Land Conservancy, a 256acre wetland in Pitt Meadows Charities they favour: Templeton School Boys Club Il Giardino Italian Garden, PNE $1.2-million gift to Vancouver General Hospital renal dialysis division $500,000 gift to help restore St. Pauls Indian Catholic Church, North Vancouver
Aquilini Dairy: A 1,100acre, 670-head dairy farm in Sunnyside, Wash., affiliated with Darigold. Saskatchewan farm: A 25 per cent ownership in a B.C.-based partnership of 21,000 acres of wheat, canola, barley and lentils. Golden Eagle Apiaries: A 4,000-colony honeybee apiary used for honey production and to pollinate the Pitt Meadows blueberries and cranberries. Golden Eagle Golf Course: Twin 18-hole golf courses in Pitt Meadows. The Falls Golf Club, Chilliwack: A championship-level 18-hole course, surrounded by a proposed 6,000-person residential development. Bordertown film set: An expansive 20-building film set used for a series of Western-themed movies, made-for-TV drama series and advertisements. Golden Eagle Aquaculture: A closedcontainment coho and Atlantic salmon fish farm in Agassiz. Vineyard and winery: Aquilini family estate in Brescia, Italy. Unnamed division: Experimental work on growing algae for food. Unnamed division: New olive oil production orchards, California. Unnamed division: Two working rock quarries, one subleased to LaFarge. Golden Eagle Trees: A now-disbanded hardwood plantation on the edge of the Pitt Polder.
Hotels/Food/ Hospitality
Pacrim Hospitality Services Inc.: 50 per cent ownership in company that manages 43-plus hotels in Canada and the U.S, including at least nine that are directly owned by the Aquilinis AIG. Owned by AIG Embassy Suites Hotel, Montreal Candlewood Suites, Montreal Holiday Inn Express, Montreal Holiday Inn Express, Vancouver Holiday Inn, Truro, NS Best Western Chocolate Lake, Halifax, NS Lord Beaverbrook Crown Plaza Hotel, Fredericton, NB Crowne Plaza Downtown Hotel, Moncton, NB Highliner Plaza Hotel, Prince Rupert Pizza Hut: 44 franchises in B.C. Maui, Hawaii: A hotel company. Wailea Beach Estates, Hawaii.: Four executive condos. 1 waterfront executive home: Wailea, Hawaii. Malibu, Calif.: Waterfront home, $11.3 million. Aquilini Brands: Manufactures Jaw Drop Coolers. Development on Canadian Blueberry Ice Wine, hard sodas. Soaring Attractions Flyover Canada: Vancouver entertainment attraction at Canada Place. Bazinga: Investment in a software company for property managers, renters and owners. Aquilini Capital: A selffinancing capital company. Garibaldi ski resort: Squamish-area proposal in partnership with Gagliardi family. Norton Motors: The Aquilinis once owned this famous British motorcycle company.
Renewable energy
Aquilini Renewable Energy: Mactan/Cebu, Philippines: $25-million waste-to-energy project. Bagulo City, Philippines: Smaller proposed wasteto-energy plant. Was shortlisted for Metro Vancouver incinerator on Tsawwassen First Nation land (shelved) and a wasteto-energy incinerator at Christina Lake, B.C. (recently abandoned).