Major employers in Nelson

14 employers, 8 of them head offices: 6 worldwide, 0 national and 2 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

Nelson — the /local page · Who owns Nelson · Who represents Nelson · Companies

Employers14
Worldwide HQ6
National HQ0
Regional HQ2
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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. 8 (Kootenay Lake)Public education — K-12 school districtRegional HQSchool District 8 (Kootenay Lake)5002022Nelson, British ColumbiaCareers →
Whitewater Mountain ResortArts, entertainment and recreation — ski resortWorldwide HQglobal (single ski resort in the Selkirk Mountains near Nelson)3002022Nelson area, British ColumbiaCareers →
Walmart Supercentre — NelsonRetail — general merchandisepart of Walmart Inc. (Walmart Canada)Major site1662022Bentonville, ArkansasCareers →
Kootenay Co-opRetail — consumer food co-operativeWorldwide HQglobal1502022Nelson, British ColumbiaCareers →
City of NelsonLocal government — municipality (incl. Nelson Hydro)Major site1502022Nelson, British ColumbiaCareers →
Hume Hotel & Spa (Marbor Holdings)Accommodation and food services — hotelWorldwide HQglobal (independent downtown hotel, restaurants and spa)802022Nelson, British Columbia—
CertiCraftSoftware / SaaS — cannabis seed-to-sale compliance and reportingWorldwide HQglobal—Nelson, British Columbia—
Nelson & District Credit UnionFinance — credit unionWorldwide HQglobal (community credit union, incorporated 1950 as Nelson Savings Credit Union)—Nelson, British ColumbiaCareers →
SMRT1 TechnologiesSoftware / tech — cloud-connected smart vending and self-service platformWorldwide HQglobal—Nelson, British Columbia—
Regional District of Central KootenayLocal government — regional districtRegional HQCentral Kootenay regional district—Nelson, British ColumbiaCareers →
Golden Life Management — Lake View VillageHealth care — seniors' housing, assisted living and residential carepart of Golden Life Management CorporationMajor site—Cranbrook, British ColumbiaCareers →
Interior Health — Kootenay Lake HospitalHealth care — acute care hospitalpart of Interior Health AuthorityMajor site—Kelowna, British ColumbiaCareers →
Prestige Hotels & Resorts — Prestige Lakeside Resort and Prestige Inn NelsonAccommodation and food services — hotelspart of Prestige Hotels & ResortsMajor site—British Columbia (family-owned BC chain; head-office city not stated on the pages read)Careers →
Selkirk College — Nelson campusesPost-secondary education — public collegepart of Selkirk CollegeMajor site—Castlegar, British ColumbiaCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • Partial record: the run was cut short on budget. Only six employers whose own websites were opened are included.
  • Head-office status of SD8 and RDCK in Nelson was not confirmed on their own pages this session. Both are listed with Nelson as their location.
  • Left out because their websites were not opened (all appear on the KootenayBiz and Discover Nelson lists): Whitewater Ski Resort (300; robots redirects to whitewatermountainresort.com, not read), Walmart Nelson (166), Save-On-Foods (152; robots 403), Canada Safeway Nelson (120; robots 403), Prestige Hotels & Resorts (155 across the Kootenays), Marbor Holdings / Hume Hotel (80; Discover Nelson 213), Yellowhead Road & Bridge (80 across the West Kootenay; yrb.com does not resolve), Maglio Building Centre (77, Nelson and Trail; host not found), Nelson & District Credit Union (60), Trainor Mechanical (45), Kalesnikoff (150; site is outside Nelson).
  • Discover Nelson's top-employers table is undated (its sources are Kootenay Business Magazine and the UBCM website). Its figures probably date from about 2017.
  • nelson.ca robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot. Only its homepage, which is allowed, was fetched.
  • Deepen pass 2026-10-30: careers pages added to all earlier rows. Added Whitewater, Walmart Nelson, Hume Hotel, the Prestige Nelson properties, Nelson & District Credit Union, Golden Life Lake View Village, and two funded software companies (SMRT1 Technologies, CertiCraft).
  • nelson.ca robots.txt (rules added 2026-10-20) names ClaudeBot in a group whose Disallow list does NOT include /Jobs.aspx, so the City careers page was opened.
  • Still left out: Save-On-Foods and Canada Safeway Nelson (both robots 403 in an earlier pass), Yellowhead Road & Bridge (domain does not resolve), Maglio Building Centre, and Trainor Mechanical (site not checked). The spearheadinc.com domain belongs to an unrelated company, not the Nelson timber-frame builder, so that builder is left out. Kalesnikoff is in ca-castlegar.
  • KAST (Kootenay Association for Science & Technology, kast.com) is the region's tech association. Its pages read here name no member companies.
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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.