About Invermere
A community in eastern British Columbia near the border of Alberta, Invermere is perched on the northwest shore of Windermere Lake that is a summer hangout for tourists and those lucky enough to have holiday homes in the area. It's the vibrant hub of the Columbia Valley sitting between Golden in the north and Cranbrook in the south. Located within the Columbia River Wetlands that is North America's largest intact wetland in the Rocky Mountain Trench, Invermere is the gateway to the Kootenay National Park and the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy. Warm summers and cool winters make Invermere the perfect playground for those into outdoor fun such as skiing, golfing, hang-gliding and para-gliding, curling on the frozen Windermere Lake or ice-skating the longest trail in the world known as the "Lake Windermere Whiteway". Its locals can be found sipping espresso in cafes, dousing food with maple syrup, diving into a dish of poutine (think french fries, cheese curds and smothered in gravy) or hanging out in a coworking venue getting creative.
Canada is being touted as the business world's best-kept secret especially in the fields of artificial intelligence, clean technology and health care. Today it's competing on a global stage and is a major destination for commercial investment. The government is empowering new companies by hosting technology industry events featuring some of the world's best innovators and attracting international talent to work on world-changing innovations. The number of skilled foreign workers is skyrocketing and many scaling firms are actively hiring from overseas.
Invermere may not be a tech hub per se, but it does have its creative souls who don't wish to leave their winter wonderland to head to the big smoke when they need to get some work done. Coworking venues opening up in the town are providing the space for out-of-the-box thinkers to mingle and do some work before they head off to the slopes for a bit of fun playing in white fluffy snow or to one of the hot springs in the area for some mindless time-out.