About The Kaslo Chamber
Organizational Description
The Kaslo & Area Chamber of Commerce (KACC) is a membership-based organization comprised of businesses, organizations and individuals, committed to building a strong business community. Our organization dates back as far as 1898. The Kaslo & Area Chamber of Commerce is federally incorporated under the Boards of Trade Act and under the Income Tax Act, we are registered as a not-for-profit. As the Chamber of Commerce, we host a number of functions and activities throughout the year, including our Annual General Meeting, Annual May Days Festival and Parade, a “Light-Up” Christmas Fair, a Membership Christmas Party (Recognizing Business Excellence), a variety of networking mixers and our signature promotion “Choose Local”.
Mission Statement
The Kaslo & Area Chamber of Commerce creates a positive entrepreneurial climate that improves community prosperity, collaboration, and sustainability to attract new enterprises and services while supporting already existing ones to the area. We take the many voices of the individual businesses and sectors in our community and collapse them into one meaningful voice from which policy can be identified and advocated.
Vision Statment
The Kaslo & Area Chamber of Commerce supports vibrant, resilient, and diverse communities throughout Upper Kootenay Lake, through promoting and engaging an active entrepreneurial climate, while embracing the values of rural life.
WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER.
We are stronger together.
Together we make a difference.
Together we stand, resilient.
Together we create a better today, a better tomorrow.
Meetings Schedule
Chamber Board of Directors Meetings are held at 6:30 pm on the third Tuesday of each month, barring special circumstances.
Our Board meets upstairs in the Arena Board Room – 517 Arena Avenue, Kaslo, BC. Any Kaslo and Area Chamber member is welcome to attend any Chamber Board meeting. Please contact thekaslochamber@gmail.com for more info or if you would like to make a presentation to the Board.
2024 Schedule
January 16, 2024
February 20, 2024
March 19, 2024
April 16, 2024
May 21, 2024
June 18, 2024
July 16, 2024
August 20, 2024
September 17, 2024
October 15, 2024
November 19, 2024
December 17, 2024
Quick Links
Kaslo & Area
Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 329
Kaslo, BC V0G 1M0
Email: thekaslochamber@gmail.com
With respect and gratitude the Kaslo & Area Chamber of Commerce acknowledges the ancestors and keepers of the land of the Sinixt, the Ktunaxa and Syilx peoples upon whose unceded territories we live, work and play.