Who runs the businesses in Cole Harbour?

CHABA is the Cole Harbour & Area Business Association. We started in 2011, and this is our fifteenth year. Our directory is one place to find out.

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The Cole Harbour welcome sign at the edge of the community

We meet the first Wednesday of every month

Come in person, or join online if you cannot get across town for it.

  • EXAMPLE — Monthly General Meeting

    Cole Harbour Place

    Our regular monthly meeting, held the first Wednesday of each month. A virtual option is available.

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  • EXAMPLE — Member Networking Breakfast

    Cole Harbour Heritage Farm

    An informal breakfast for members to meet and share what they are working on.

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  • EXAMPLE — Cole Harbour Tree Lighting

    Cole Harbour Fire Station

    The annual community tree lighting, supported by CHABA members.

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Most of our members are one or two people

Members are small businesses, sole proprietors and professionals. Most of us know what it is like to be the whole company.

Cole Harbour is the centre of it. Members also come from Dartmouth, Eastern Passage and the surrounding HRM area, and most of what CHABA puts on happens in Cole Harbour itself.

Read about CHABA

Looking for someone local?

If you live here, the directory is a list of people in your neighbourhood who would rather you called them than a 1-800 number.

If you are a member, it is where you go when you need to refer work to somebody you have actually met.

Search by name, or browse by category.

Browse the member directory

What $80 a year covers

Membership is one flat rate, the same for everyone.

The room.

The monthly meeting and the events through the year. Other people who run businesses here, in one place, on a date you can plan around. This is the part that is hard to arrange on your own.

A page of your own.

A listing in the member directory and a profile page you control: what you do, how to reach you, where to find you online. If you have never had a website, that page is one.

The events.

Members take part in the Corn BBQ, the Christmas tree lighting and the free skates.

One way to join, and one alternative

Membership is $80 a year.

Pay online.

This is the one we would point you at. Paying online sets up your account at the same time, so you can start on your listing straight away.

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If you would rather not pay online.

Send an e-transfer to chabatreasurer@gmail.com, or give cash or a cheque to a board member.

Not sure whether you are already a member? Fair question. Ask us and we will check.