Self-Employment Section

Small Business BC

The premiere business website with all you need to start and grow your business. Look here for Business Resource guides, manuals, checklists, market research, and much more. Take their Are You Ready to be an Entrepreneur assessment. A great place to start!

Community Futures Strathcona

Community Futures is a community-based organization whose primary goal is to provide loans to people with feasible business plans and to whom funding from traditional sources is unavailable for any variety of reasons.

Community Futures Mt. Waddington

is committed to creating sustainable employment in the north island and region. This mission will be achieved by creating partnerships for planning and implementing community change by building and improving our financial, physical, social and human resources infrastructure.

RiverCorp

The Campbell River Economic Develop Corporation "Rivercorp" is a locally owned and operated Economic Development Corporation focused on delivering services that retain and grow our local existing business, encourage business to expand, and recruit new business to the area.

Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce

Providing Local business member services

Canada Business

Government site with info on taxes, forms, regulations, financing, etc.

Women's Enterprise Centre

BC's leading resource for women entrepreneurs, offering skills development, empowerment lending, free business guidance, business resources, networking and events!

First Business BC

Dedicated to the Aboriginal entrepreneur in BC

Canadian Youth Business Foundation

This site provides business support to young Canadian entrepreneurs. Excellent articles and information and the site is updated often.

Market Research for Exploring Entrepreneurs

Need a guide on how to do market research? This online workshop will take through start to finish to develop a basic marketing plan for your business idea. User friendly! Follow Entrepreneur Bob through the steps!

Statistics Canada (StatsCan)

Great for market research...stats, stats and more stats!

Canada One

Canada's premiere business channel on the Internet - providing you with articles, archives, a business directory, resources and technology information.

Business Development Bank of Canada

Find out who BDC are and what they can do for you.

Canadian Business Online

This site includes: Profit Magazine; The Magazine for Canadian Entrepreneurs, Profiteer; The Newsletter of business tips and strategy and Profit Guide; your guide to the best information on the Net.

Small Business - Canada Magazine

Designed for Canadian Small and Home Based Business.

Fast Company

A magazine for employees and entrepreneurs of the new economy!!!

Export Development Corporation

Aids to competing in the World market. Links to other trade and investment web sites and more.

Canadian Government Statistics & Data Sourcing

his site is designed to help Canadian entrepreneurs with limited research budgets locate free and low cost Canadian data for their small business market research.