Thirteenth anniversary of annual celebration FOR THE past 13 years, the end of October has come to mean something special for the Federal Business Development Bank (FBDB) and small and medium- sized business owners - from around the country. It has come to be a time when the bank and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, with the help of regional and local co- sponsors, have organized Small Business Week. While this celebration of en- trepreneurship today attracts some 190,000 smail business owners an- nually, its origins are somewhat more modest. The story begins in British Col- umbia in 1979 when the FBDB’s Lower Mainland branches (Van- couver, North Vancouver, Van- couver East, New Westminster, Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Richmond) pooled their resources to hold small business management sessions under a Small Business Week banner. While the main reason for combining their efforts was to save money, the B.C. branches quickly realized they had struck something remarkable. Small business owners were not only in- terested in learning how to better manage their businesses, they wanted to meet their fellow en- trepreneurs, and attract public at- tention. These businesspeople wanted to tell the country about the impor- tant economic benefits ihey pro- duce. They wanted to tell people about the jobs they create, about the products they develop. about the new markets they explore. . ‘Most importantly, they were anxious to tell people that small business had come of age — that they were just as committed, dar- ing and innovative as their big business counterparts. Riding high on the successes of the 1979 experience, FBDB staff in. British Columbia. repeated “Small Business Week-in 1980 and tripied the number of sessions ‘held for local businesses. Word of the Small Business Week concept quickly spread to the bank’s Mon- treal. headquarters and in 1981, the FBDB decided to host Small Business Week in every province and territory. 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