1 Coworking Spaces in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

About Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

A city in eastern Montérégie located in the province of Quebec of Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu has a history going back to the 17th Century when it was known as St Johns. Perched on the banks of the Richelieu River at the northern point of Lake Champlain, it sits about 40km from Montreal with a population of about 94,636 who all love to indulge in "Tire d'érable" (think boiled maple sap rolled onto a stick) considering that Quebec is the largest producer of maple syrup in the world. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is a transportation hub and where the first railway line in 1836 connected the town with La Prairie. Home to an international hot air balloon festival that draws an international crowd of tourists, its economy is predominantly based in textiles, food and wood products. The perfect town for outdoor lovers, you can put on your ice-skates in the winter and take to a cycling path in the summer whenever you have time-out from getting creative in a coworking venue.

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.

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu may not be a tech hub per se, but it does sit in the region that is seeing a "brain-gain" rather than a "brain-drain" happening with students and scientists arriving in record numbers. The public and commercial sectors are supporting entrepreneurial communities via connecting them with the best academic institutions and businesses. Coworking venues are but one more space for the creatives to gather en masse in collaborative mode to get their stuff done before running out the door to gobble down some artisan cheese with a wine.