Business Resources
BUSINESS LINKS
Business Development Bank of Canada
www.bdc.ca
Canada’s business development bank and the only financial institution dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs. Financing, advisory services and indirect financing with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. BDC Capital offers a full spectrum of specializing financing, including venture capital, equity as well as growth and business transition capital.
Canada Business Network
www.canadabusiness.ca
Find Canada’s links to planning, financing, managing, growing, permits and licenses.
Canada Revenue Agency: Information for Businesses
www.cra-arc.gc.ca
The Canada Revenue Agency with vital information on GST/HST and payroll. Information for construction, daycare in your home, E-commerce, farmers and dishers, film, and self businesses and self-employed businesses.
Export Development Canada
www.edc.ca
Providing Canadian exporters with trade financing, export credit insurance and bonding services, as well as foreign market expertise.
Industry Canada: Information for Businesses
www.ic.gc.ca
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada centre. A place for businesses and consumers. Find statistics, protect intellectual property, permits and licences and bankruptcy information.
Administration and Finance
Canada Border Services Agency: SME Centre
Canada Business Network
Canada Revenue Agency: Information for Businesses
Export Development Canada
Human Resources
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce: Toolkit of Training Resources for Small- and Medium-sized Businesses
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada: Scholarship Management Services
Canadian Apprenticeship Forum: Resources and Tools
Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Hire Foreign Workers
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada: Jobs and Training
Marketing
BizAssist
Exporting
Go Global Toolkit for SMEs
Go Global Workshops
COMMUNITY LINKS
Official Town of Carleton Place
www.carletonplace.ca
The official Town of Carleton Place web site. On this site, there is something for those visiting the area as well as information for those who live here.
Town of Carleton Place Economic Development
www.businesscarletonplace.ca
The Town of Carleton Place Economic Development web site. On this site, there is something for those interested in opening a business, finding statistics and more.
Business Improvement Association (BIA)
www.downtowncarletonplace.com
The Carleton Place Business Improvement Association is a community group whose mandate is to keep the downtown area beautiful.
Valley Heartland Community Futures Development
http://valleycfdc.com
Valley Heartland Community Futures Development Corporation is dedicated to stimulating job creation and economic growth through business and community development in Lanark & North Leeds.
LOCAL BUSINESS LINKS
Business Carleton Place
www.businesscarletonplace.ca
The Town of Carleton Place is home to a wide variety of unique businesses and services.The municipality of Carleton Place has made a commitment to economic development. The Economic Development department in the Town of Carleton Place exists to support local businesses and incoming businesses. We are a one-stop-shop for those looking to establish or expand in Carleton Place.
Canada Business Ontario
www.cbo-eco.ca
CBO is a service provided through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario). CBO assists entrepreneurs and service providers with finding information on starting or growing a business, government financing programs, exporting, taxation or how to hire employees.
Lanark North Leeds Enterprise Centre
www.lnlenterprisecentre.ca
Are you thinking about starting a small business, need help with questions on an existing one? The LNLEC is here to support you, the entrepreneur!
Small Business Advisory Centre
www.smallbizcentre.ca
Are you thinking about starting a small business, need help with questions on your existing business? Are you starting a business in the Lanark, Smiths Falls, Perth, Carleton Place, Mississippi Mills area? If so, the SBAC is here to support you, the entrepreneur! Getting a small business started or growing it, can be very challenging, but can also be very rewarding.
Ontario Business Service Centre
www.cbsc.org
Providing accurate and timely information on programs, services and regulations to Ontario businesses in collaboration with our federal, provincial and non-governmental partners.
MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
Lanark County Tourism
www.lanarkcountytourism.ca
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
www.chamber.ca
Since 1925, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce has been the largest, most influential advocate for business in Canada. Founded with the aim of creating a strong, unified voice for Canadian business and a set of values from which policies encouraging prosperity would emerge, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce continues to be the only voluntary, non-political association that has an organized grassroots affiliate in every federal riding.
Ontario Chamber of Commerce
www.occ.on.ca
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce works to foster sustained economic growth as the “Voice of Business in Ontario.”