Getting started in business will require you to analyze several components of your business idea and complete a series of steps prior to start-up. This section will provide you with a listing of various resources that outline these steps and provide insight into the process of starting your own business.
- Aboriginal Business Development Toolkit: Supporting the growth of Aboriginal business in Ontario
- Canada Business - Government of Canada site listing resources for starting a business
- Canadian Innovation Centre - The Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) is Canada's leading organization dedicated to assisting Inventors and innovative companies. Their range of services includes evaluation, technology due diligence, market research, and education programs.
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office - The Canadian Intellectual Property Office offers information on patents, trademarks, industrial designs and copyright protection.
- Choosing & Setting Up a Location - Canada Business Network
- Considering a Franchise
- Entrepreneurial Self Assessment - Here is a tool to help better measure your entrepreneurial potential. This questionnaire includes 50 statements, and will take about 15 minutes to complete.
- Guide for Canadian Small Business - Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency's information guide on taxation and record keeping requirements for small business.
- Self Employment Benefit - The Ontario Self-Employment Benefit provides unemployed people who are or have recently been eligible for Employment Insurance with income and entrepreneurial support while they develop and start their business.
- Services to Business Guide - Service Ontario and Thunder Bay Public Library
- Starting A Small Business in Ontario - Government of Ontario guide to starting a small business
- Starting a Business in Thunder Bay The Entrepreneur Centre of the City of Thunder Bay provides demographic information on the city as well as offers a Business Self-Help office that has all the information on the steps to starting a business in Thunder Bay.
- Statistics Canada - An on-line database of social and economic statistics in Canada.
- Strategis - Industry Canada's site that offers extensive resources for business start-up and management.
- YES Employment Services - Helps people find jobs and employers find employees
Additional material available from
the Thunder Bay Public Library.