Major employers in Grand Forks

9 employers, 1 of them head offices: 1 worldwide, 0 national and 0 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers9
Worldwide HQ1
National HQ0
Regional HQ0
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Employers, largest first

People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.

CompanyHereEmployees hereWorldwide HQJobs
School District No. 51 (Boundary)Public education — K-12part of Province of British ColumbiaMajor site2252016Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
ROCKWOOL (Grand Forks stone wool plant)Manufacturing — stone wool (mineral wool) insulationpart of ROCKWOOL A/SMajor site200Hedehusene, DenmarkCareers →
Interior Health (Boundary District Hospital and Grand Forks sites)Health care — hospital and community healthpart of Province of British ColumbiaMajor site1752016Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Interfor Corporation — Grand Forks Division (sawmill)Forest products — sawmill (dimension lumber)part of Interfor CorporationMajor site1352016Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Bron & Sons Nursery Co.Agriculture — wholesale nursery (fruit trees, plants)Worldwide HQglobal1202016Grand Forks, British ColumbiaCareers →
Golden Life Management — Silver Kettle VillageHealth care — seniors' housing, assisted living and residential carepart of Golden Life Management CorporationMajor site802016Cranbrook, British ColumbiaCareers →
Beem Credit Union — Grand Forks branch (formerly Grand Forks Credit Union)Finance — credit unionpart of Beem Credit UnionMajor site502022British Columbia (head-office city not stated on the pages read)Careers →
City of Grand ForksLocal governmentMajor site472016Grand Forks, British ColumbiaCareers →
Selkirk College — Grand Forks campusEducational services — public collegepart of Selkirk CollegeMajor site—Castlegar, British ColumbiaCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • Jim's lead of a 'massive pulp & paper' mill does not hold for Grand Forks: the big forest-products employer here is Interfor's SAWMILL (dimension lumber), not a pulp or paper mill. The nearest pulp mill is Mercer's Celgar mill in Castlegar, about 100 km east (not verified this session). The other big plant is ROCKWOOL's stone wool (mineral-wool) insulation factory, which on the city's 2016 list (as Roxul) out-employed the sawmill.
  • The only published employer list is the City's Economic Profile 2016; its figures are a decade old. The same table also lists Silver Kettle Retirement Living 80, Grand Forks Credit Union 44, Unifab Industries 40, Advance Orchard Co. Inc. 30 and Province of BC 23. These are left out because their own websites were not verified (the old gfcu.com domain now redirects to Beem Credit Union, apparently after a merger; Unifab and Advance Orchard have no site that resolved).
  • Session cut short for budget: Selkirk College's Grand Forks campus, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary and Boundary Community Futures were not checked.
  • Deepen pass 2026-10-30: careers pages added to all earlier rows. Added Beem Credit Union (successor to Grand Forks Credit Union), Selkirk College's Grand Forks campus and Golden Life's Silver Kettle Village.
  • Still left out: Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (KootenayBiz 168, Grand Forks & Trail) — rdkb.com robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai with Disallow: /. Boundary Electric (1985) Ltd. (KootenayBiz 77) — boundaryelectric.ca does not resolve. Unifab Industries and Advance Orchard — no website found. Community Futures Boundary — the guessed domain did not resolve. No venture-funded software or tech company is based in Grand Forks as far as this pass found.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-30. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.