Major employers in Grande Prairie

12 employers, 7 of them head offices: 2 worldwide, 0 national and 5 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers12
Worldwide HQ2
National HQ0
Regional HQ5
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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
Canfor — Grande Prairie Sawmill and Green Energy plantSawmills / wood products; biomass powerpart of Canfor CorporationMajor site2142026Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
Bonnetts Energy Corp.Oilfield services — wireline, pumping, swabbingWorldwide HQCanada (wireline and well-services group)—Grande Prairie, AlbertaCareers →
Northern Metalic SalesIndustrial supply distribution — lubricants, wire rope & rigging, MRO, safetyWorldwide HQCanada (industrial supply; branches in AB and BC)—Grande Prairie, AlbertaCareers →
ARC Resources — Grande Prairie field officeOil & natural gas exploration and productionpart of ARC Resources Ltd.Regional HQField office for ARC's Alberta Montney operations (Kakwa, Ante Creek)—Calgary, AlbertaCareers →
Grande Prairie & District Catholic SchoolsK-12 educationRegional HQCatholic school division (Grande Prairie and district)—Grande Prairie, AlbertaCareers →
Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP)Post-secondary educationRegional HQNorthwestern Polytechnic — main campus (formerly Grande Prairie Regional College)—Grande Prairie, AlbertaCareers →
Peace Wapiti Public School DivisionK-12 educationRegional HQRural public school division (County of Grande Prairie and area) — central office in Grande Prairie—Grande Prairie, Alberta—
Tourmaline Oil — Grande Prairie field officeNatural gas exploration and productionpart of Tourmaline Oil Corp.Regional HQField office (Peace River High / Deep Basin operations)—Calgary, AlbertaCareers →
Alberta Health Services — Grande Prairie Regional HospitalHospitalspart of Government of AlbertaMajor site—Edmonton, AlbertaCareers →
City of Grande PrairieLocal governmentMajor site—Grande Prairie, AlbertaCareers →
Grande Prairie Police ServicePolice servicesMajor site—Grande Prairie, AlbertaCareers →
Weyerhaeuser — Grande PrairieWood products / forestrypart of Weyerhaeuser CompanyMajor site—Seattle, WashingtonCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • The City publishes no ranked top-employers list with headcounts; its Economic Profile page points to open-data dashboards only. Its forestry page names four large operators — Weyerhaeuser, International Paper, Canfor and West Fraser — as 'the region's top industrial employers', and its energy page names ARC Resources, Canadian Natural Resources, Schlumberger and Trican as oil and gas companies operating out of the region.
  • Not added because the company's own site did not confirm a current Grande Prairie operation on pages read (JS-rendered locations pages) or was blocked: International Paper (its Grande Prairie pulp mill belonged to IP's cellulose-fibres business, which IP has divested — verify the current owner), West Fraser, Canadian Natural Resources, SLB, Trican (tricanwellservice.com robots 403), Pomeroy Lodging (head office in Grande Prairie; robots 403), Aquatera Utilities (municipally owned utility HQ in Grande Prairie; robots disallow AI crawlers), Grande Prairie Public School Division (robots disallow AI crawlers).
  • Just outside the city: County of Grande Prairie (offices in Clairmont), Keyera's Wapiti gas plant and most gas-plant/field sites in the County — not listed.
  • No venture-funded software companies headquartered in Grande Prairie were 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.