Region: $517 million
Region employment: 16,775

The Bancroft­Minden Forest Company, located in Bancroft holds the SFL for about 270,000 hectares of Crown land. Annual silviculture expenditures exceed $600,000 and since 1997 over one million seedlings have been planted, 2,000 hectares of young plantations tended and several thousand hectares of young hardwood forest thinned.

Nearly 2,000 jobs supported by the forest industry

1. 960 direct jobs 20.5 per cent of regional goods-producing sector employment
2. 480 indirect regional jobs
3. 499 indirect provincial jobs
4. Logging industry and primary wood industry jobs more than 10 times provincial average

Bancroft is the commercial centre of northern Hastings County. The urban centre provides excellent retail and other services and is surrounded by a vast area of beautiful forests and lakes — offering the quiet enjoyment of a rural lifestyle. The mighty York River flows through the heart of the downtown.

Logging, lumbering and mining contributes to the origin and growth of Bancroft and continue to be major employers. New development is vigorous and welcomed by the community — with unlimited business and employment opportunities.