Our Editorial Process

VLT Near Me is an independent directory of video lottery terminal venues across Canada. We’re not affiliated with any lottery corporation or regulator, so the only thing we’re trying to sell you is a straight answer about where the VLT machines are and what the rules say. Here’s how we put these listings together and keep them honest.

How we source and map venues

VLTs sit in age-restricted, liquor-licensed venues: bars, lounges, taverns, pubs, hotels, beverage rooms, Royal Canadian Legions, and some First Nations sites. They’re not in casinos, which run separate slot machines under different regulators.

Right now we have live venue lists in Saskatchewan (about 551 VLT venues), Manitoba (about 431), Alberta (more than 730, compiled from AGLC’s licensed-venue records), and Nova Scotia (176), roughly 1,900 in total, plus a smaller confirmed list for New Brunswick. Each venue is geocoded so the map and finder can point you to the closest machines. Nova Scotia is our one lower-confidence list: the province has no official current locator, so we compiled it from a 2021 provincial VLT dataset cross-referenced with the public liquor-licence registry and checked against current search data, which is why we tell readers to call ahead. New Brunswick also has no public locator, so rather than infer venues we built a confirmed but partial seed there, every venue verified to offer VLTs, and we grow it as we confirm more. PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador are coming soon: those hubs already carry the regulator, age, and helpline facts while we build out the venue lists. We do this work because, frankly, most provinces have no public VLT locator. Saskatchewan has SaskVLT.com through the WCLC, but Manitoba’s is limited and the rest have none.

How we check the facts

VLTs run in seven provinces, each under its own body: AGLC in Alberta, SLGA in Saskatchewan, Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries (regulated by the LGCA), and the Atlantic Lottery Corporation across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, and Newfoundland and Labrador. We check the minimum age per province (18 in Alberta and Manitoba, 19 elsewhere) and the responsible-gambling helpline for each one against the operator and regulator. You can read more on how VLTs work and VLT laws in Canada.

Updates and corrections

We refresh listings on a rolling basis as venues open, close, or change. And if you spot something wrong, we want to hear it. Corrections are welcome, and we’d rather fix a detail than leave you with a bad address.