Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
What Cap de la Madeleine is made of: the communities whose institutions are here, the sectors its 1,054 businesses sit in, the franchises already on the ground, and the services a newcomer could start.
1,054 businesses on file · 82 trades · 31 sectors · registry population 33,022 · built from geonet.troisrivieres on 2026-10-07
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The local economy
What the business base is made of, what it is specialised in against the national pattern, and what that mix implies. This is the part a development office would read first.
Composition, not health. geonet records what trades exist and where; it does not record formation, closure, employment or revenue, so none of those appear here. What makes this economics rather than a directory is the NAICS coding: it lets the local mix be read against the BLS survival curves and against the 323 industry groups this research has screened.
Every industry group on this page links through to its NAICS page, and to the screened market report where this research has one — that is what the trait-to-NAICS coding buys.
What this city is specialised in
Location quotient is this city's share of a trade divided by the same share across 10 CA metro tables. Above 1.25 is the conventional threshold for a local specialisation.
Thin against the national pattern
Common trades that are under-represented here. For someone deciding what to open, this is the more useful half of the table — though a gap can mean unmet demand or a market that does not work here, and this does not tell you which.
The base against the entry screen
Businesses by the entry signal of the industry group they sit in, from the /markets screen. A large "structure decides" share means most local trades are ones where being better than the incumbent does not by itself win. A trade is matched to the screened record at whatever level the research wrote it — the same code, a broader one, or a narrower one. Where a group holds several screened sub-markets the count is shown, because no single one of them speaks for the whole group.
How to read the survival figure
Each sector's five-year establishment survival rate, weighted by how many of this city's businesses sit in that sector. It is a property of the MIX, not of these businesses — it says what survival this composition would imply at US private-sector rates, because no Canadian equivalent series exists.
Weighted over 97.6% of the coded base — public administration carries no curve. Source: Business Employment Dynamics — Table 7, Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And what it does not measure
A "mixed" trait is one that genuinely spans codes — "computers" covers systems design, repair and supply. The clear share is how much of this reading rests on unambiguous coding. Business density also reflects how completely the directory covers a place, not only how many businesses are in it — so it compares poorly between a city the register knows well and one it does not.
Who lives here, and who the city is for
The census: the only figures on this page that count people rather than businesses, and the three cohort readings they make possible.
No census subdivision is mapped for ca-cap-de-la-madeleine in local/census-map.json, so this page carries no census figures. The mapping is kept explicit because Canada has several places called London, Toronto and Kelowna, and attaching the wrong one would put another city's demographics on this page.
The communities the register shows
A community appears in the business register before it appears in prose — a national church, a society, a credit union, a newspaper. Those are counted as institutions, and they are what suggests residents. A restaurant serving a cuisine is counted separately as trade, because every city has those and they say nothing about who lives nearby. The ranking is by institutions.
| Community | Institutions | Worship | Trade | Where it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | — | — | 1 |
What the city is made of
Every business on file, grouped by the sector it trades in. This is the economic-development view: where the 1,054 businesses actually are, and the specific trades inside each sector.
| Sector | Businesses | Share | What is in it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 78 | 7.4% | medical clinic (23) · pharmacy (10) · physician (10) · optical (5) · chiro (3) · health foods (2) · home healthcare (1) |
| Beauty | 69 | 6.5% | hair stylist (46) · barber (16) · dentist (6) |
| Construction | 60 | 5.7% | general contractor (17) · carpet (10) · electrician (9) · painting (6) · plumbing (5) · roofing (4) · heating and cooling (4) · excavating (2) |
| Business | 60 | 5.7% | association (27) · government (14) · consulting (8) · accounting (5) · vending (2) · foundation (1) |
| Dining | 52 | 4.9% | restaurant (47) · pizza (4) · pubs (1) |
| Automotive | 47 | 4.5% | autos (25) · auto repair (13) · auto parts (4) |
| Living | 43 | 4.1% | place of worship (15) · furniture (11) · daycare (6) · appliances (5) · veterinary (3) · janitor (2) · fire safety (1) |
| Retail | 41 | 3.9% | convenience (13) · department store (8) · jeweler (6) · gifts (4) · photography (4) · flowers (4) · office equipment (1) · toys (1) |
| Education | 40 | 3.8% | school (39) · library (1) |
| Living & Home | 40 | 3.8% | |
| Finance | 38 | 3.6% | insurance (18) · credit union (5) · bank (1) · bankruptcy (1) |
| Food | 21 | 2% | grocer (13) · baker (4) · catering (3) · ice cream (1) |
| Food & Beverage | 21 | 2% | fruit (1) |
| Retail Goods | 19 | 1.8% | |
| Manufacturing | 18 | 1.7% | industrial supplier (11) · machinery (4) · fabrication (3) |
| Construction & Realty | 16 | 1.5% | |
| Athletic Sports | 12 | 1.1% | |
| Fashion | 12 | 1.1% | clothing (12) |
| Energy | 11 | 1% | fuel (11) |
| Travel | 9 | 0.9% | motel (3) · travel agent (3) · bnb (3) |
The franchises already here
Brands from a register of 2,024 franchise systems, matched into this city by name. A high count is a signal in both directions: the territory works, and it may be taken.
10 of these brands are a single common word — Metro, Avenue, Budget — so their counts include businesses that merely share the word. They are marked rather than dropped.
| Brand | Category | Here | Worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Tire | retail | 3 | 455 |
| Tim Hortons | coffee | 2 | 2,890 |
| A&W Restaurants | fastfood | 1 | 694 |
| St. Hubert | fastfood | 1 | — |
| Wal-Mart | retail | 1 | 6,500 |
| Weed Man | specialty | 1 | — |
| Carrefour name only | supermarket | 3 | 2,455 |
| Brunet name only | pharmacy | 2 | 112 |
| OLCO name only | fuel | 2 | 319 |
| Ardene name only | retail | 1 | — |
| CARQUEST name only | auto | 1 | 3,400 |
| Champion name only | supermarket | 1 | 1,000 |
| Jacob name only | retail | 1 | 200 |
| Limited name only | retail | 1 | — |
| Petland name only | pet | 1 | 200 |
| Sobeys name only | supermarket | 1 | 224 |
Real estate as a local trade
Four unrelated jobs share the name: selling existing homes, owning and letting them, managing them for someone else, and building new ones. For anyone weighing a move or a licence these are the counts — and the ownership question goes to /property, which answers it building by building.
Real estate is a local job market in its own right, and four unrelated trades get the same name. Counts are businesses filed under each trade in the register, which lists a brokerage once however many agents work there — so this measures firms, not licensees.
Selling homes
5312Offices of agents and brokers — the resale market, and the biggest single trade in most Canadian cities.
Named in the register
- Champagne enr Groupe — 4905 Des Jesuites Rue
- Gestion Immobiliere P L M B — 25 Pierre-Boucher Rue
Building new homes
2361Residential builders and the general contractors who work for them.
Named in the register
- Al Gin Construction Enr — 169 Rue Saint-Georges
- Centre Horticole du Cap inc — 325 Vachon Rue
- Construction Bibeau — 217 Rue Dessureault
- Constructions Dupuis Enr — 72 Rue DE LA Barre
- Jacob Leonce — 455 Rue Rochefort
- L A Brouillette Ltee — 774 Rue Berlinguet
- Maurecon — 825 Rue Houssart
- Maurecon Service Entretien — 825 Rue Houssart
- Noel St Louis — 125 Rue Thuney
- Pomerleau Herve — 155 Rue Toupin
- Service dArbres Robec inc — 225 Dessureault Rue
- Service dEntretien des Arbres enr — 35 Normand Rue
- Services Industriels Mauricien — 850 Rue Jules-Leger
- Triex — 495 Rue DE L'Escadrille
Who actually owns it
The full property record →From the /property research for this city, which asks a different question: not who trades in property here, but who owns it. An owner is named there only where a document says so. No roll of its own: Trois-Rivières assesses it, and names are redacted.
Landowners
- Quebec school network (the Centre de services scolaire du Chemin-du-Roy and others) — $164,832,900 over 16 units
- Quebec health and social services network (Santé Québec or a Schedule II establishment) — $113,405,200 over 5 units
- Ville de Trois-Rivières — $78,066,337 over 137 units
- Religious institutions (a fabrique, religious institution or incorporated Church) — $60,490,500 over 19 units
- The Crown in right of Canada — 0.47 ha across five parcels
Homebuilders
- 1 rue des Ormeaux / 185 rue Chapleau (owner not established) — 312 dwellings, $39,699,000
- 10-20 rue Duplessis (owner not established) — 222 dwellings, $17,614,000
- Quebec health and social services network — $113,405,200 over 5 units
- 84 chemin du Passage and 521 rue Notre-Dame Est (owners not established) — 100 and 82 dwellings
Commercial landlords
- 300 / 350 / 450 / 480-500 rue Barkoff — the Galeries du Cap cluster (owners not established) — $53,615,200 across five units, 46+ premises
- 845 and 850 rue Berlinguet — machine shops (owners not established) — $30,026,400 across two units, 9.49 ha
- Boulevard Thibeau retail strip (owners not established) — $11,760,700 at 635-645; $7,120,400 at 693-701; $5,120,100 at 806-824
- Marmen Inc. — $9,500,000 across two units in the sector
9 marquee buildings examined, 6 with an owner established.
On "how many doors"
How many doors a landlord holds is not in any of this. The register files an apartment building under the building, not its owner, and carries no unit count; there is no open dataset of Canadian landlords by portfolio. Where this research has established ownership it is in the /property record for the city, building by building, which is a different and much slower exercise.
Work where you go to them
The Ultimate 411 half of local: everything where the customer does not have to come to you.
A shop needs the customer to walk in. These 157 services do the opposite — the mobile mechanic, the mobile groomer, the bookkeeper, the junk haul — and they are the ones a person can start without a lease. 0 of them already match a trait filed in this city's register.
The 157 Service=1 rows in search.local: work where the provider travels to the customer. "present" counts businesses already filed under that exact trait name; a blank is a coverage gap, not proof of absence, because the two vocabularies were built separately.
home services
events
pets
luxury
healthcare
sporting goods
sports
business
outdoors
construction
travel
tools
Schools and colleges
wander.schools is a post-secondary table — universities and colleges. K-12 public and private schools are not in it, and only 7 of its 1,686 rows carry coordinates, so these are listed and not mapped.
In the business register
Where schooling shows up as a business rather than an institution — which is where K-12, tutoring and childcare appear.
Health and care
What a person moving a parent here would ask first. The register files clinics and pharmacies; it has no category for a hospital at all, so hospitals are matched by name and the limit is stated rather than hidden.
geonet carries no 'hospital' trait, so these are matched on the business name. A distance-to-hospital figure needs a source that states hospital locations.
Mayor & politics
Who holds office here and who is asking to, from the official lists on /politics: the council, the riding’s Member of Parliament and the provincial member. Each name opens its row there.
Realtors in Trois-Rivières — the brokerages and licensed agents to call → (Cap de la Madeleine is served from Trois-Rivières)
What this record cannot tell you
Named in full, because the gaps are the part most likely to be misread as an answer.
- No census figures on this page: this region is not mapped to a census subdivision in local/census-map.json, so the community counts here are business-register institutions, which is a different measurement and cannot substitute for a population.
- wander.schools is now readable, but it holds universities and colleges only and 1,679 of its 1,686 rows have no coordinates. K-12 public and private schools need a separate source — in Ontario the Ministry of Education school finder, in British Columbia the provincial school list. wander.citytowns, hotels and territories remain denied to the ru user.
- No 'hospital' trait exists in geonet; distance to a hospital needs an external source such as StatCan's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.
- 10.2% of businesses here carry no coordinates, so a map or address lookup would miss them. Postal codes reach 99.3%.
Built from
geonet.troisrivieres— the local business registerwander.regions— city name, population, metrosearch.local— trait vocabulary and the come-to-you servicessearch.cozfranchises— 2,024 franchise brands