CBDC First-time Entrepreneur Loan

Community Business Development Corporations

Taking applications?

Apply through the funder’s page; no deadline stated

Read from the official page on October 13, 2026. Confirm the deadline on the official page before you apply.

Amount: Up to $150K
Cost share: Not stated on the page
Who can apply: Businesses; Individuals
Where: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island

What it is

Atlantic Canada start-up loan

Loans of up to $150,000 for first-time entrepreneurs in rural Atlantic Canada to start or buy a business.

Description from the Government of Canada’s Business Benefits Finder (list of July 17, 2025), Open Government Licence – Canada.

This program isn’t in the federal grants and contributions records, which cover federal departments only, so there is no record here of who got it.