- Business Start-Up Assistant
- Your Information Site for Starting a Business in Canada
Quebec – How to Start
This page provides general information and resources including checklists and guides for starting a business in Quebec.
General Information and Guides
Legal Aspects
Setting Up an Office
Buying a Business
Electronic Magazines and Portals
Organizations/Networks/Programs
General Information and Guides
- Online Small Business Workshop – Canada Business Service Centres
- Démarrez votre entreprise – Gouvernement du Québec (Available in French only)
- Checklists for Going Into Business – Info entreprises
- Feasibility Checklist for Starting a Small Business – Info entreprises
- Points to Consider When Starting Your Own Business – Info entreprises
- Info-Guide - Permits and Licences Required for Certain Types of Businesses – Info entreprises
- Info-Guide - Self-Employment – Info entreprises
- Info-Guide - Start-Up and Expansion – Info entreprises
- Info-Guide - Social Economy – Info entreprises
- Entreprises – Ministère du Développement économique, innovation et Exportation, Gouvernement du Québec (Available in French only)
- Your Guide to Government of Canada Services and Support for Small Business – Government of Canada
- Guide for Canadian Small Businesses – Canada Revenue Agency
- Getting Started in Small Business – Canadian Bankers Association
- Aboriginal Business Services Network
- Info-Guide - Aboriginal Businesses – Info entreprises
- Aboriginal Resource Guide – Canadian Bankers Association
Legal Aspects
- Legal Issues in Starting a Business – Info entreprises
- Protection of Personal Information - Your Responsibilities – Info entreprises
- Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Lease – Info entreprises
- Bonding – Info entreprises
- Vos droits, Vos affaires – Barreau du Québec (Available in French only)
- Le petit guide juridique du nouvel entrepreneur – Le réseau juridique du Québec (Available in French only)
Setting Up an Office
- How Will You Operate? – Canadian Bankers Association
- Store Location - "Little Things" Mean a Lot – Info entreprises
- Signs and Your Business – Info entreprises
- Making Your Organization Bilingual - Guide and Practical Tools – Canadian Heritage
Buying a Business
- Buying a Business – Info entreprises
- Forty Concepts for a Small Business – Canada Business Service Centres
- How to Buy a Business Checklist – The Business Link
Electronic Magazines and Portals
- Réseau de développement économique et d’employabilité (Available in French only)
- Les Affaires.com (Available in French only)
- Canadian Business Online
- Small Business Canada Magazine
- CanadaOne Magazine
- BizSTARTUPS – Entrepreneur.com
- Entrepreneur.com
- StartupJournal – Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- The Bell Business Centre – Bell Canada
Organizations/Networks/Programs
Organizations
- Info entreprises
- Canadian Innovation Centre - CIC – Info entreprises
- Gouvernement du Québec
- Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation – Gouvernement du Québec (Available in French only)
- Association des centres locaux de développement du Québec (Available in French only)
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED)
- Réseau des Sociétés d'aide au développement des collectivités (SADC)
- Board of Trade of Metropolitain Montreal
- Canadian Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- The Canadian Technology Network – National Research Council Canada
- Canadian Federation of Independent Business
- Export Development Canada
- Aboriginal Business Services Network
- Entrepreneurship Institute of Canada
- HITE - An association for hi-tech startups
Regional Contacts
- Info entreprises
- Assistance for Entrepreneurship - Montreal Region – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Region (Region 08) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Côte-Nord Region (Region 09) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Centre-du-Québec Region (Region 17) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Chaudière-Appalaches (region 12) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Estrie Region (Region 05) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine Region (Region 11) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Laval Region (Region 13) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Laurentides Region (Region 15) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Bas St-Laurent Region (Region 01) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Mauricie Region (Region 04) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Montérégie Region (Region 16) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Outaouais Region (Region 07) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Québec Regions (Region 03) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Saguenay Lac St-Jean Region (Region 02) – Info entreprises
- Business Services Offered in the Lanaudière Region (Region 14) – Info entreprises