Our role

FedDev Ontario works actively to advance and diversify the southern Ontario economy through funding opportunities and business services that support innovation and growth in Canada’s most populous region.

The Agency is delivering impressive results, which can be seen in southern Ontario businesses that are creating innovative technologies, improving their productivity, growing their revenues, and in the economic advancement of communities across the region.

Read more about the impacts we are having in southern Ontario.

Invested

over $4.4 billion in more than 6,050 projects

Developed partnerships

with over 45,000 organizations

Leveraged

additional investments of more than $6.5 billion to support businesses, organizations and communities

Worked closely

with partners, stakeholders, investors and communities to improve local economic conditions and create new opportunities

The data in the diagram is accurate as of January 2024.

The Agency is one of Canada's regional development agencies, each of which helps to address key economic challenges by providing regionally tailored programs, services, knowledge and expertise.

Our region: southern Ontario

As Canada's most populous region, southern Ontario is a key contributor to the overall Canadian economy. With headquarters in Waterloo and offices in Toronto, Peterborough and Ottawa, the Agency has a presence across southern Ontario to provide regionally tailored knowledge and expertise.

Its mandate covers the region as defined by 37 Statistics Canada census divisions. A list of the communities that form each census division is available on the Statistics Canada website.

Map- Catchment Area and Census Divisions

Description of figure: FedDev Ontario - Catchment Area and Census Divisions

A map of southern Ontario that shows FedDev Ontario's scope of operations, from Cornwall in the east to Owen Sound in the west, and from Pembroke in the north to Windsor in the south.

The following 37 Statistics Canada census divisions are identified in the map:

  • Brant;
  • Bruce;
  • Chatham–Kent;
  • Dufferin;
  • Durham;
  • Elgin;
  • Essex;
  • Frontenac;
  • Grey;
  • Haldimand–Norfolk;
  • Haliburton;
  • Halton;
  • Hamilton;
  • Hastings;
  • Huron;
  • Kawartha Lakes;
  • Lambton;
  • Lanark;
  • Leeds and Grenville;
  • Lennox and Addington;
  • Middlesex;
  • Niagara;
  • Northumberland;
  • Ottawa;
  • Oxford;
  • Peel;
  • Perth;
  • Peterborough;
  • Prescott and Russell;
  • Prince Edward and Lambton;
  • Renfrew;
  • Simcoe;
  • Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry;
  • Toronto;
  • Waterloo;
  • Wellington;
  • and York.

Learn more about FedDev Ontario