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.
2023 Schedule
January 17, 2023
February 21, 2023
March 21, 2023
April 18, 2023
May 16, 2023
June 20, 2023
July 18, 2023
August 15, 2023
September 19, 2023
October 17, 2023
November 21, 2023
December 19, 2023
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.