What province are you in Mom of 3 ~ the rules and viability of this vary so drastically across Canada!

Here in Ontario for example having more space in my home or a dedicated space does not mean we can hirer a assistant and take on more children ... we are only allowed to have 5 children per premise regardless of how many adults we have and if we choose to go 'regulated' route and partner with a licensed agency our own children may count in those five depending on their age PLUS there are additional restrictions on the ages we can take and so forth.

To have more than 5 children enrolled we would have to apply to the Ministry of Education for a license to operate a day nursery ... whomever is 'running' the program would have to have their Early Childhood Education and be approved by the Ministry so if you do not have that you would have to have funds to HIRE someone just to get started with the process and than to be perfectly honest IME residential 'homes' typically do not meet the zoning bylaws for parking, fire, accessibility or day nursery requirements for % of window, bathrooms, square footage per room and Public Health requirements for industrial kitchen facilities and so forth at least not without a whole bunch of hoop jumping and expensive renovations ... heck half of the 'zoned for business' properties do not meet all the requirements for bylaws and rules to operate a day nursery which is why there are so few programs these days that are not 'institutions' that were built specifically for the purpose of Childcare program