British Columbia licence plate: Parks 2025

Issued today 2025 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), as delegate of the Province under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 13 British Columbia license plates.

British Columbia (Canada) license plate, Parks 2025 (2025 to today), sample P617LY

Format, years and the law

Format
P999LL, for example P617LY (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2025 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #12326E Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Bulletin 33 rows "Parks - Porteau Cove" (current RS###@, new S###@@, example S123AA), "Parks - Kermode" (current RK###@, new P###@@, example P123AA) and "Parks - Purcell" (current RM###@, new R###@@, example R123AA). Porteau Cove is the FIRST type in the whole 2025 recut: "This will begin with the B.C. Parks - Porteau Cove series within the next few weeks" (bulletin dated 9 June 2025).

Legal basis and sources

  1. the three Parks rows + rollout order https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-bc-parks-2025. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of British Columbia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-bc-parks-2025")'