Recent growth in residential and local business development is expected to lessen the blow from job cuts at Canopy Growth.
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The pandemic, he said, has brought hundreds of people to Smiths Falls, many of them teleworkers no longer anchored to cities like Ottawa.Article content A business survey conducted last year found 19 new businesses opened in Smiths Falls in 2021, up from nine in 2020 and two the year before that. Among the 84 businesses that took part in the survey, more than half said they intended to hire people within the next 12 months.Article contentChristin Storms is one of the town’s new entrepreneurs. She launched a downtown arts and craft store, The Craft Witch, during the height of the pandemic in 2021.
Leslie Richardson, executive director of the Smiths Falls & District Chamber of Commerce, said she was disappointed with the loss of jobs at Canopy Growth, but remained convinced the town would be able to avoid a larger downturn.Article content The construction of the Rideau Canal, linking Ottawa and Kingston, put Smiths Falls on the map, and the settlement became an important regional transportation hub.
After decades of decline, Smiths Falls was buoyed in 1951 by the opening of the Ontario Hospital School, a sprawling home for the developmentally disabled that later became known as Rideau Regional Centre. At its peak, the facility was home to 2,500 residents and employed more than 800 people.
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