No. 01 / The free Kootenay business list
5,837 businesses in the Kootenays.
Free to search, free to be listed.
Rossland to Fernie and every valley between. Nobody paid to be on this list, and nobody can pay to sit higher.
The List · 5,837 businesses on recordbrush the wall · press anywhere · hover a name for its card
No. 02 / The card catalog
112 kinds of business,
filed in 16 drawers. Pull one open.
Plumbers, bakeries, tire shops, vets. Every trade in the region is filed in one of these. Open a drawer, pick a trade, then narrow it down to your town.
By town
Every town gets its own page, down to the ones with a dozen names on them. The small places are exactly where a list like this earns its keep.
All 83 townsNo. 03 / Where every entry comes from
You should not have to take my word for it.
So every listing names the public source it came from, and the day I last found it there. Most of all the business's own website, then a chamber directory, then a town's business licence list. You can go and look at the same page I did.
That is also why an entry tells you when it was last checked instead of calling itself verified. Verified is a word directories use to mean nothing in particular. A date and a source, anyone can check.
Kootenay Made Digital
Castlegar · claimed by the owner
In the owner's words
I hand-build websites for businesses here and anywhere, out of Castlegar. Custom code, not a template. Templates help you launch. Custom code helps you compete. What I build is yours outright, not rented from a platform that can put the price up whenever it likes. Most builds are live in two to three weeks. Websites start at $2,000, or $189 a month for a year. Those prices are on my site, not behind a discovery call. I built this register too, and I keep it. Free, always.
Every entry carries the stamp. This one also carries a logo, the owner's own words and their links, because the owner claimed it and sent them in. Claiming costs nothing.
The road is rendered by a machine from a written description. Every valley here has one like it.
No. 04 / The deck
Everyone plays from the same deck.
I built the List because the best businesses in these mountains were the hardest ones to find. Everyone here gets the same deal: a free page, written in their own words. If you make something good in the Kootenays, people should be able to find you.
So deal yourself a hand. Six cards, six different trades, drawn from the whole region: a welder next to a bookstore. Every card opens a real listing, and there is no card money can mark.
Or browse the whole deck by category
Six trades a hand, shuffled from 48 categories.
No. 05 / Your turn
Three things you can do, all of them free.
If this is your business
Take your listing into your own hands.
Your listing is already here, and it stays free. Claim it and you say what you actually do, in your own words, with your logo, your photos and your social profiles, so the people looking for it find you.
Claim your listingIf something is missing
Send it in and I will add it.
Plenty of good businesses have no website and turn up on no public list, so none of my sources can see them. Word of mouth is the only way in. Send a name, yours or the fellow who plows your driveway.
Add a businessIf you are just looking
Pull a card at random.
5,837 businesses. Somewhere in there is a bakery, a farm stand, or a fishing guide two valleys over that you have never heard of.
Surprise meAnd if what you are short of is money rather than customers, there is a plain map of who actually funds a business out here, from your own Community Futures office up to the federal desk.