Nova Scotia businesses are hard to find online. We're fixing that.
CanadaPivots is a new, free directory of Nova Scotia companies. Buyers search by what they need and where they are. Local businesses get found. We're building it riding by riding, and we're looking for businesses and champions to start it with us.
No cost. No commitment. Two minutes of your time.
From Yarmouth to Sydney
Good local companies are invisible.
Most small businesses can't outspend national advertisers. They shouldn't have to. Tariffs made that worse — buyers who want to source at home still can't see who's here.
- A Nova Scotia buyer needs a supplier. They search Google.
- They get national chains and paid ads.
- The local shop three streets over never shows up.
- That work leaves the province. Often for no good reason.
One place to find Nova Scotia companies.
Three things, and nothing else:
Search by category
Trades, manufacturing, services, retail. Find who does what.
Search by community
From Yarmouth to Sydney. See who's nearby.
Go straight to the source
Every listing links to the company's own website. No middleman.
Get on the list.
We're taking businesses now, ahead of the directory going live. Name, website, category, community. That's the whole thing.
- Email us the four details. We'll do the typing.
- Your listing points at your own website. We don't sit between you and the buyer.
- We'll email you when your community goes live.
One small ask.
Champions are the people who put this in front of a main street: MLA offices and their staff, chambers of commerce, business associations, town councils, and anyone who already has the room's attention.
Would your office share this link with the businesses on your riding's main street?
That's it. No cost. No commitment. No endorsement needed. If it's useful, share it. If it isn't, we'll keep building anyway.
- A free listing. Small businesses get online visibility they may not have today.
- Local buyers first. More Nova Scotia money staying in Nova Scotia.
- Two minutes of their time. Name, website, category, community. Done.
- One page to forward. Plain language. Nothing for you to build or maintain.
Heather and Tony.
We're Heather and Tony, based in Nova Scotia. We kept seeing good local companies lose work to firms from away — not because they were worse, but because nobody could find them. CanadaPivots is our attempt to fix that. We read every email ourselves.
Questions, a business to add, or a main street you'd like covered? Write to us.
heatherandtony@canadapivots.ca We reply within two business days.