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There are signicant "Valleys" in Ottawa, Montréal, Vancouver, and in the province of Alberta. I would speculate that the more "relatively" active software comp

There are signicant "Valleys" in Ottawa, Montréal, Vancouver, and in the province of Alberta. I would speculate that the more "relatively" active software companies since dot com have surprisingly been in Quebec. In the past, Vancouver has been home to many gaming companies, and being in the Pacific northwest it is close to Seattle, Redmond, with some direct influences from Silicon Valley. EA - Montréal, Vancouver (Black Box & EAC), Edmonton (Bioware) Toronto's "Valleys" are primarily in the outlying suburban cities: Markham / Steeles Avenue, and Mississauga. Ottawa and Kitchener / Waterloo are fairly distant cities from Toronto. Waterloo is home to RIM and the university: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ RIM - Waterloo, Mississauga, Ottawa Nortel - Mississauga, Belleville, Ottawa (2) Oracle - Mississauga, Markham, Ottawa, Toronto - Steeles, Toronto (Numetrix) Microsoft - Mississauga, Ottawa, Toronto (MSN) IBM - Markham AMD - Markham Apple - Markham

brunoc 16y ago
There's definitely a lot of interesting stuff happening in Montreal these days. Notably Founder Fuel which is bound to shake things up over the next few years. Why are you surprised? There is a ton of creative work coming out of QC.
paulgb 16y ago
Some more K/W companies, for comparison: Sybase - Waterloo Maplesoft - Waterloo AGFA - Waterloo Google - Waterloo Desire2Learn - Kitchener OpenText - Waterloo EA - Waterloo
jlgosse 16y ago
IBM, RIM and Nortel all have pretty big labs in Ottawa. Not only that, both RIM and IBM are growing insanely fast here.
nkassis 16y ago
Lets not forget Ubisoft - Montreal Softimage - Montreal And many more of course. One non tech but awesome company I like is Cervelo (high tech bicycles, as seen in the Tour de France) which started in Toronto by two students from McGill (I'm from Montreal so gotta point that out ;p). One thing thing that is good about Montreal is the number of talented students from the US who come here to avoid paying expensive tuition in states like MA. It seems that it's mostly the Biotech industry that benefits the most here. Maybe with more investment in the region they could be persuaded to stay and create more tech startups.

brunoc 16y ago

There's definitely a lot of interesting stuff happening in Montreal these days. Notably Founder Fuel which is bound to shake things up over the next few years. Why are you surprised? There is a ton of creative work coming out of QC.

paulgb 16y ago

Some more K/W companies, for comparison: Sybase - Waterloo Maplesoft - Waterloo AGFA - Waterloo Google - Waterloo Desire2Learn - Kitchener OpenText - Waterloo EA - Waterloo

jlgosse 16y ago

IBM, RIM and Nortel all have pretty big labs in Ottawa. Not only that, both RIM and IBM are growing insanely fast here.

nkassis 16y ago

Lets not forget Ubisoft - Montreal Softimage - Montreal And many more of course. One non tech but awesome company I like is Cervelo (high tech bicycles, as seen in the Tour de France) which started in Toronto by two students from McGill (I'm from Montreal so gotta point that out ;p). One thing thing that is good about Montreal is the number of talented students from the US who come here to avoid paying expensive tuition in states like MA. It seems that it's mostly the Biotech industry that benefits the most here. Maybe with more investment in the region they could be persuaded to stay and create more tech startups.