Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism is a Destination Marketing Organization in British Columbia that represents all the communities along the shores of Kootenay Lake: Nelson to Meadow Creek, and Kootenay Bay to Wynndel. The region is quaint, quirky and sophisticated and hosts things to do all year-round. Photos by  RPM Photography

Founded in 2008, the Nelson Star is a local multi-media news company, including print, web, social media and video that publishes a print edition every Wednesday and Friday and online and Facebook 24 hours a day/seven days a week. A total of 9,000 copies of the Star are delivered twice a week to homes and businesses from Salmo to Nelson to New Denver.
The Star is a member of the National NewsMedia Council, a self-regulatory body governing the country’s newspaper industry.

Hard to know where to start and to understand the immigration processes? New Ground Immigration Services is a small dedicated firm operating from Nelson BC in Canada. We help you with advice and guidance to reach your immigration goal to come to Canada, temporarily as a visitor, worker, investor or student or permanently through one of the economic programs or family sponsorship.

The West Kootenay’s marketing hub. Binding the WK Communities together through local commerce, services and trades.

As a locally owned and operated independent publication, we’ve been bringing buyers and sellers together for almost 45 years, and helping small businesses succeed.

Striving to serve you better, every day.

The Pinnacle PAC promise:

• Great Turn Around
• Accessibility
• Fixed Pricing

We believe that accounting is about much more than the numbers, and that to grow local businesses and economies, we must support and encourage culture and community.

Pinnacle PAC wants to help our community prosper economically through successful enterprise and spiritually through artistic endeavour.  We believe our own business can contribute to the economic and social well-being of our community by nurturing start-up enterprises, coaching existing businesses, providing low-cost services to non-profits, offering secure, well-paid and meaningful work to our team members, setting a good example of best practices and technological innovation and supporting local artists and food providers.

Our passion at Pinnacle PAC is helping people succeed. Our clients tell us they value our relationship because we translate technical matters into plain English they can understand and use. We believe the accountant should be a  coach, cheerleader and peer rather than simply the scorekeeper. We believe professionals should charge a fair price for the value provided to the client and that value is not a function of time spent. We believe an accounting office can be a fun and creative place for the team members and an open and non-threatening environment for clients.

A successful enterprise is one that exists to serve the objectives of the proprietor. Too often, the proprietor ends up chained to her own business with a lunatic for a boss. How does this happen? Can it be avoided? Can it be changed? We can help small business owners to identify their personal objectives and then take action to achieve them through the operation of their businesses.

We want to empower small business owners to help themselves – to understand their business, understand their financial position, measure their growth, interpret their financial results, build their operating systems, improve their teams and make themselves better leaders and community members to the enrichment of our whole region.

Established in 1992. Full spectrum cloud-accounting boutique company serving small businesses in West Kootenay region.

The world’s largest collection of authentic wellness retreats. Retreat Guru. Helping you find and book a retreat.

Our Vision

We believe human beings are innately wise, strong and kind. This wisdom, although not always experienced, is always present. Going on retreat is a beautiful way to reconnect to our basic sanity and health. Our aspiration at Retreat Guru is to inspire people to experience authentic retreats and reconnect with their innate wisdom, strength and kindness.

Rice & Co is a modern CPA firm based in Alberta and BC. We’re not old, we don’t want your shoebox of receipts, and we don’t want to only talk to you at tax time. We work with owners who want to do better, who want to innovate, and who view their accountants as a partner, not just a cost of doing business.

Why do those clients want us? Because we are experts in automation and efficiency. An online accounting platform that connects to your bank, payroll, inventory and sales systems? Making expense claims as easy as Instagram? We can do that. A system that auto-fetches and records your bills each month? We can do that too. Through all this, we drastically reduce the time you spend on accounting, so you can focus more on what matters most to you.

If you think we’re the kind of accountants you’d like to work with, we’d love to hear from you.

Selling Real Estate

Expert Guidance.

The listing process I provide is a streamlined full-service experience. It is my passion to exceed your expectations. Let’s work together to achieve your goals!

✅ Strategic Pricing
✅ 3D Virtual Walkthroughs
✅ Social Media Marketing
✅ Photography and Video Tour
✅ Hard Copy Advertisement Campaigns

Buying Real Estate

Results Driven.

I am your vision facilitator. We can find what you are looking for!

✅ Daily Market Analysis
✅ MLS Listings and For Sale by Owner
✅ Off-Grid Properties
✅ First Time Home Buyers
✅ Strategic Negotiation

Located in Nelson, BC ‘Sensible Solutions Inc.’ is a rapidly growing, energetic, customer focused, full-service technology company. Our team of experts assists clients across the Kootenays within our three interdisciplinary divisions. From Communications, Security and Smart Building Installations to IT Management, Consultation, and Support to Cloud Infrastructure and Hosting we meet the needs of nearly any technology consuming organization.

Catherine JEAN is a multi-certified professional linguist from France established in Castlegar.

Committed to providing polished TRANSLATION of web pages, flyers, longer print or web content into FRENCH.
The Kootenays can shine brighter on the bucket list of French speakers from Canada and beyond, both at the planning and local stages of their project. Some French  enhances visibility with French speaking in-person or online visitors. Tourism & recreation, hospitality related businesses and services can reap short and long term benefits from adding some French to their communication.

Also available  for individual goals are help with resumes and applications of diverse nature in French, PROOFREADING and FRENCH LANGUAGE COACHING (18+).  LITERARY TRANSLATION is more than welcome – self-published or intended for a publisher.

Associate member of the Society of Translators and Interpreters of BC, En-Fr  stibc.org

Signs, Printing and Custom Rubber Stamps. Your one stop advertising centre.

Steer Environmental Associates Ltd. is a scientific consulting firm located in Nelson, British Columbia. We provide our clients with senior-level expertise in:

• hazardous building materials assessment and management
• asbestos analysis
• indoor air quality
• human health and ecological risk assessment of contaminated sites
• environmental monitoring
• technical and regulatory advice
• third-party reviews.

Steer Environmental has been in operation since 2009.

Full-service communications and government relations consulting.

Financing available (o.a.c) through our partners at Financeit.  Click the link below to pre-qualify online.

https://www.financeit.ca/s/yOreHQ

An authorized Graber Blinds dealer

http://www.graberblinds.com

An authorized H2O Spas dealer

http://www.h2ospas.com

An authorized Maax (Vita) Spas dealer

http://www.vitaspa.com

Sweetwater Promotional Solutions provides Kootenay businesses with corporate branding products – apparel, promotional items and ad specialty items. From toques to t-shirts, teams jackets to incentive gifts or give-aways, Sweetwater helps organizations promote their goods and services by putting their brands into households and everyday life.

Jeweler, entrepreneur and executive assistant at West Kootenay Regional Arts Council. Owner/operator of The Bench Jewelry Studio in Nelson; a collaborative space offering jewelry bench rentals in a fully equipped, safe, fabrication studio for trained metalsmiths. Custom jewelry available by commission from one of 4 talented in house artists. Please contact me at (604) 816-0811 to set up an appointment or to inquire about renting a workspace here.