I am an experienced carpenter/craftsman in Niagara Falls Canada. What
is the best way to market my business to either building contractors
who will contract my services or to indivuals who would hire me to
build kitchens or other cabintry work?

I could think of a hundred different ways and each one centers around the below:

Don't be fightened of rejection. Just get out there and start selling
your business to anyone and everyone.  Ask anyone and everyone if they
need work done.  If you are any good - the work will come.

Hi Carpenter.
I work as a carpenter in Norway,and whats working well, is have some
Businesscards made,and some small A5 Brochure,and start visiting
companies and/or private homes.
You can also put the brochures in the mailboxes to people.
Find out what you like most to work with,and then market yourself to
those areas/people.I would also have a website set up,you can buy a
domain at http://Godaddy.com for about 8 bucks a year.

All the best of luck :)
Regards
Marius
http://MariusMikkelsen.Blogspot.com

Those are two different markets, and they may require two different approaches.

With the individual projects, you win them one job at a time - and
that means traditional ways to reach new homeowners or homeowners
looking to remodel. Advertising, promotions, publicity, partnerships
with home equity lenders, and the like.

With the building contractor projects, you're looking to build
long-term relationships with people who will subcontract to you on a
regular basis. Nurture those relationships, and you essentially have
agents selling your services for you! So, leverage every job that you
do under a general to make sure you're a valuable part of his/her
team. And, you'll seek out these potential professional clients more
through professional organizations and plain old networking than
through advertising.

Here's a little website I set up that might help you on the marketing
side of your business, whichever way you choose to go. It has lots of
advice geared towards specifically toward small businesses:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kuraoka/

Best of luck!
-- John Kuraoka

thank you very much for your comments - they are all greatly appreciated!!!!!