The Collingwood Business Improvement Association sponsors a full page ad each month in the Renfrew Collingwood Community Newspaper called "Who's Who In Collingwood".  This special feature is a way to promote and profile a different Collingwood BIA member businesses and their owner/operators each month.

The monthly feature is a great opportunity for the community to learn more about the services and variety of businesses available to them in Collingwood, and who the people are that run them. 

If you are a Collingwood BIA Member Business located on KIngsway between Boundary and Rupert, and you would like to be featured in an upcoming issue please contact us at 604-639-4403 or fax 604-435-8181 or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

"WHO'S WHO in Colling wood" past features:

 July 2007
 May 2007
 Nov 2006

Collingwood Days 2009 

A Multicultural Community Event

Was The Place to Be on June 6th

Collingwood Days has grown into a full scale Community Fair.  Local businesses, artists and entertainers were on site June 6th, 2009 to display their crafts to hundreds of local families.

There were 20 International Marketplace vendors,  10 Community Booths, games, inflatable obstacle course, free kiddie rides, Professional BMX performers flying in the sky, a main stage filled with some local talents and great music was playing in the Carleton Elementary school grounds all day.  The Fire Truck display was impressive the ladder was expended to about 4 or 5 stories high.  There were amazing Raffle Draw Prizes and they were donated by the Collingwood businesses.

We would like to acknowledge those businesses and thank them for their continued support in Collingwood Days.

• London Drugs       
• Starbucks
• Safeway
• Bikram's Yogo Metrotown
• Parkview Dental
• Cassandra Hotel
• Roman's Restaurant
• Euro Deli and Market
• Soccer Cents
• Rhee's Tae Kwon Do Academy
• Tiny Bubbles Preschool
• King's Way Kitchen & Bath
• Sunstar Reality

A few of our Collingwood businesses had a booth in the International Marketplace or the Community Corner and they are:

• The Life Center
• Simply Curries
• Cassandra Hotel
• BM Chan International Beauty School
• Tiny Bubbles Preschool
• London Drugs
• Starbucks
• Vancity - GOLD SPONSOR
• Medigas

Thank you for helping us make this year's Collingwood Days the place to be.  We invite you all to join us next year.

The Collingwood Business Improvement Association in partnership with the Collingwood Community Policing Centre launched an Ambassador Program in early October.  Since then we have been advised the word Ambassador can not be used to describe the role the individuals provide as it is trademarked by the Downtown Vancouver BIA.

A new name has been decided on "Collingwood Guardians".  The function of the "Collingwood Guardians" will be the same as previously reported and described below.

The role of the Collingwood Guardians is to patrol the Kingsway corridor and to act as the eyes and ears for the Collingwood BIA and the Collingwood CPC.  The Guardians are dedicated to assisting the business community.  You'll see them at BIA community events, patrolling Kingsway, helping businesses, patrons and visitors in the area, plus they will add an extra measure of security and compliment the BIA's existing Bike & Foot Safety Patrol program.

Collingwood Guardians will be stopping by every commercial business throughout this initial 3 month trial period.  They will be easy to recognize in their red & black uniforms.

The release of the final action plan by the Living In Community steering committee on June 4th at the Vancouver Public Library was a huge success. The event was well attended with over 120 people. The diverse guest speaker panel, and the interesting World Cafe group discussions were very successful at creating further opportunities for interesting and lively dialogue between the various participants.

The steering committee believes the recommendations within the action plan reflect the concerns and ideas that came from the extensive community consultation process they conducted with communities around Vancouver, including the Collingwood BIA, Collingwood Community Policing Centre and the Collingwood Neighbourhood House, and have the potential to dramatically influence the health and safety of all.

The messages that echoed throughout the consultation process demonstrated that the status quo is not acceptable, and that action is urgently needed to increase health and safety for sex workers, residents, businesses, and the entire community and to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and youth.

The steering committee of Living in Community will be working through the fall to put in place the implementation phase of the project.

For more information on the Living in Community project please go to www.livingincommunity.ca.  You can also review the Community Helath & Safety Toolkit at www.livingincommunity.ca/toolkit.