North Bay – The Perfect Balance
With a 15-minute work-to-home commute, affordable living, and natural beauty, including vast lakes, trail networks, and ski hill in the middle of the city, North Bay’s quality of life is matched by its vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem.
#1 place in Ontario to buy real estate
Source: Where to Buy Real Estate in Canada 2022: National ranking - MoneySense
(https://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate/where-to-buy-real-estate-in-canada/)
Top 20 best investment locations in Canada
Source: Canada's Best Locations: Infrastructure for Innovation, Talent for Tomorrow | Site Selection Magazine
One of the most livable places in Canada
Source: Canada's 2021 Livability Rankings | RATESDOTCA - RATESDOTCA
(https://rates.ca/guides/mortgage/canadas-most-livable-cities#full)
Benefits of Relocating
Skilled, loyal, educated, and creative people.
- North Bay is home to educational institutions and training facilities that support our local workforce. With a wide spectrum of customized training opportunities, programs are designed and tailored to meet the changing needs of industry.
- Over 83% of North Bay’s population, 15 years of age and over, achieved high school diplomas and 56% have graduated from a trade school, technical college or university.
- North Bay has a strong bilingual workforce and is culturally diverse with more than 90 languages spoken in the area.
- To assist with labour attraction and retention efforts, the City of North Bay developed the North Bay Works Human Resource Support Program. This program is designed to provide eligible businesses with professional customized HR expertise.
- North Bay is one of the eleven Canadian communities participating in the Rural Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) program. This federal program is a tool designed to assist our employers looking tohire an immigrant, temporary resident or overseas candidate that wants to become a permanent resident.


North Bay Support Services

The City of North Bay is committed to ensuring companies are well served during and after their expansion project or relocation to the community.
The economic development team are available to assist with all aspects of business development, from access to capital, location review and site selection to grand opening and community integration. We engage our network of community partners to help companies access services, resources and funding programs that support innovation, capital requirements and talent recruitment, settlement, and development. We want to ensure that new investors and their employees have access to the types of resources and professional services needed to thrive in the community.
Northern Ontario specific immigration attraction and funding programs, including municipal incentives, support business growth and expansion in North Bay. Regional, provincial and federal programs stimulate investment within their targeted sectors by providing technical expertise, capital funding and partnership development assistance. In addition, the Northern Ontario Angels, ranked as the #1 Angel Organization in North America has a strong presence in North Bay to facilitate investments.
Key Sectors
North Bay’s diverse local economy is supported by vibrant business and industry sectors. With a strong balanced mix of industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) operations, North Bay continues to grow by encouraging local expansions and by attracting new compatible companies. Our industrial firms experience a high level of success because they have a diversified offering, produce highly engineered, high margin, low volume products for a global market.

Advanced Manufacturing

Aviation, Aerospace & Transportation

Film & Television

Mining Supply & Services

Public Administration

Tourism & Cultural Industries

Technology & Digital Innovation

Access to Markets
STRATEGIC LOCATION
North Bay is well connected to major urban markets in Canada and the United States via a network of transportation options, including roads, air and rail.
Just minutes from the downtown core, the municipally-owned YYB North Bay Jack Garland Airport (YYB) boasts the longest runway in Northern Ontario. With a main runway of 10,000 ft. in length, Category 1 instrument landing system, Canada Customs and flight service stations, YYB North Bay Jack Garland Airport attracts and accommodates aircrafts ranging in size from light trainers to wide-bodied “heavies” such as the Boeing 747 and Antonov 124.
High-capacity rail freight lines connect to major centres and make it possible to transfer heavy load, major volume materials quickly and efficiently. Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway, Canadian National (CN) Railway, and Ottawa Valley Railway (OVR) provide freight services to and from North Bay and are well-connected to the United States’ rail system and to all industrial areas in Canada.
Connectivity
PCMag.com named The City of North Bay as the 2020 winner of the fastest Mobile Networks (source: Fastest Mobile Networks Canada 2020 – North Bay | PCMag)
North Bay is one of the major centres on several high-capacity fiber optic networks that link the national service provider across Canada and, in turn, connect to international carriers. North Bay connects Northern Ontario to southern centres and provides a northern bridge between the eastern and western-most points of the province. This east-west link offers redundant connectivity to major carriers in the south, further ensuring consistent, world-class telecommunications services to businesses and residents in the city.