Brazeau County

The Economic Development Department of Brazeau County is progressive and award winning with focus on Business Attraction, Business Retention & Community Sustainability strategies.  Our Business Visitation Plan/Import Replacement Survey has been duplicated by many other economic development organizations around the Province. We offer our Brazeau County Businesses free marketing through our website Business Directory and our Home Based & Agriculture Busienss Directory.  Our services to our businesses include referral services and annual networking opportunities.

With a solid industry based of oil & gas, forestry and agriculture, we are working with the emerging industries of tourism and bio fuels.

Our Economic Profile provides a well-rounded, accurate and up-to-date statistical database on the area.  To view our Economic profile please click the link below:

 Economic Profile 2013

Brazeau County is publishing a Business Newsletter which can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

 Business Newsletter Edition 11 April 2013
 Business Newsletter Edition 10 January 2013
 Business Newsletter Edition  09 October 2012
 Business Newsletter Edition 08 July 2012
Business Newsletter Edition 07 April 2012
 Business Newsletter Edition 06 January 2012
 Business Newsletter Edition 5 October
 Business Newsletter Edition 4 July.pdf
 Business Newsletter Edition 3 April.pdf
 Business Newsletter Edition 2 January.pdf
 Business Newsletter Edition October 1.pdf

For more information, contact the Economic Development and Communications Manager, Wanda Compton, at 780-542-7777.

In partnership with Community Futures Capital Region, Norquest College, Careers Next Generation, Pembina Area Operators Group (PAOG), Town of Drayton Valley and funding partner, Alberta Human Services - Alberta Works, Brazeau County is once again hosting a series of Employee Attraction and Retention Network (EARN) business breakfast sessions. The EARNetwork is a way for stakeholders in the community to come together to network, engage and receive information about the challenges we face with employee attraction and retention in our workforce. The first of this series was held on March 26,2013 at the MacKenzie Conference Centre, providing those in the audience information about attracting, engaging and maintaining an Aboriginal Workforce, one of Alberta's fastest growing labour force.  Click here to view speaker, Derek Bruno's presentation.

The next EARNetwork breakfast session will be held on April 30th, 2013, with the topic of ‘Women in the Workforce’. Doors open at 7:15am with breakfast at 7:30am and discussions to commence at 8:00am. Please mark your calendars for this important labour workforce information session!  For more information about the next EARNetwork session on April 30, 2013, please contact our department by phone 780-542-7777 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Economic Development & Communications Manager or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Economic Development & Communications Assistant.

Thank you to those businesses who participated in the Business Visitation Program (BVP) in 2011.  Our businesses in Brazeau County gave us invaluable information that we will put into programming for Business Retention and Attraction strategies. Please click on the link below to view the final report of the survey.  If you have any questions, please contact our department at 780-542-7777.

 Business Visitation FInal Report