I too am opening a daycare centre and for now it will operate unlicensed and in hope to have it licensed. I printed off the daycare and nursery act. I forgot which site I was at, but it had the license application at the back.
My suggestion for now is to prepare your site according to the daycare and nursery act, there is a check list for ministry guidelines.
Hope this helps...
Check your regs. You can't open an unlicensed day care centre here in PEI. You can open an unlicensed/unregistered/non-agency endorsed day HOME but a centre has to have all paperwork and licensing before it can open it's doors for children.