Welcome to True North Optometry!

We are located on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T'enneh in downtown Prince George surrounded by other wonderful and locally owned businesses. We are a full scope Optometry practice, providing high quality vision care and solutions for developing, protecting, and enhancing the vision of the people and families of northern BC. We value community, care, connection and candor, and use these values to provide our patients with an impactful, enjoyable and educational experience from the moment you step through our door.

Our Services

Child Eye Exam

At True North Optometry, we recommend your child's first eye exam occur before their first birthday, and then annually until the age of 19. With every child, we strive to support them with their visual development and help them meet the visual demands of the world around them.

Dr. Budac practices optometry from a behavioural approach. During your child’s eye exam, Dr. Budac will not only look for nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), an eye turn (strabismus), lazy eye (amblyopia) and other ocular pathologies, but also assess your child’s eye movement (tracking) skills, ability to use their eyes together (binocularity), ability to keep their eyes aligned as they move inwards (convergence), capacity to process visual information, and ability to change focus from one object to another.

We strive to make every child eye exam an enjoyable and informative experience. You will be left with a thorough evaluation of your child’s visual system as well as information on how to protect and enhance their vision as they continue to grow and develop.

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Adult Eye Exam

At True North Optometry, we recommend that every adult from the age of 19 to 65 have a comprehensive eye exam every two years. With age, we tend to see a higher prevalence of ocular pathologies like cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. For adults over 65, we recommend an annual eye exam. An annual eye exam is also recommended for anyone with a systemic condition like diabetes or multiple sclerosis where there can be a significant impact on vision and ocular health.

Dr. Budac strives to provide you with the solutions that will help you meet the visual demands you face on a daily basis. Working together, Dr. Budac will customize your lens prescription so that it works for you.

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Vision Therapy

There are certain fundamental visual abilities that every human should have. Vision therapy is a personalized curriculum of activities done in-office and at home to develop, regain, or enhance these visual abilities.

Dr. Budac can identify learning related visual problems that can have a significant impact on school performance as well as more apparent visual dysfunctions like crossed eyes (strabismus), lazy eye (amblyopia), eyestrain and double vision. In addition, Dr. Budac provides Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation and Sports Vision Therapy.

At True North Optometry, we are happy to have a dedicated space for vision therapy. With specialty equipment, lenses, prisms, filters and computer software, we have all the tools and equipment needed to support you in developing your vision.

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Frame Styling

At True North Optometry, we work closely with our frame suppliers to offer a wide variety of trending, stylish and unique frames. We strive to stock an assortment of frames for all ages, faces and budgets.

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Dry Eye

Dry eye is a bit of a misnomer. A better label is tear film dysfunction. When the delicate balance of tears on the eye is unbalanced, a cascade of symptoms can present. These include your eyes feeling dry, watery, sore, gritty, itchy or tired. Red blood shot eyes, crustiness around your eyes in the morning, and chronic styes can also be traced back to a dry eye problem.

The impact of our habits and environment cannot be overlooked. Northern British Columbia with all its beauty and opportunity, is also very dry, particularly here in Prince George. Our habits, environment and changes in season can all play a role in severity of our symptoms.

Dr. Budac spends time during your comprehensive eye exam to not only identify tear film dysfunction, but to also investigate the possible causes and factors that have contributed to it. His treatment plan will involve both the management of symptoms and a preventative maintenance protocol.

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Contact Lenses

At True North Optometry, we have a wide selection of contact lenses to match your individual needs and lifestyle. Whether for work, sports or a special occasion, we work to find the lens that provides you with the best vision, comfort, fit and care.

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Our Technology

At True North Optometry, we strive to provide the highest level of eye care. To help us achieve this goal, we have invested in state-of-the-art technology. Our integrated electronic medical records enable you to book your appointments online, browse our selection of frames in our online frame store, and have your third party medical insurance submitted electronically at the time of your visit.

Our OCT retinal imaging camera takes a detailed scan of your retina allowing for early detection of retinal findings. Retinal imaging also allows for making close comparisons and watching for trend patterns between scans. The OCT has enabled eye care professionals to detect and monitor the subtle changes that can occur in diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinal toxicity, and multiple sclerosis.

Additional services we provide include:

  • Pre-op and post-op laser surgery appointments
  • Referrals to ophthalmologists
  • Emergency care
  • Foreign body removal
  • Treatment of pink eye
  • Drivers medical evaluations
  • Prescription sunglasses
  • Safety glasses and prescriptions
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Address:
1272 5th Ave
Prince George, BC
V2L 3L2;
Tel: 250 640-6370.

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True North Optometry
1272 5th Ave
Prince George, BC
V2L 3L2
Tel: 250 640-6370

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Thank you for visiting truenorthoptometry.com (the “Website”), provided to you by True North Optometry (“We”). We respect the privacy of every individual who visits the Website and are sensitive to privacy issues on the Internet. We believe it is important that you know how we deal with information received about you.

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and Website users ("you"), describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. The Website is for general audiences and is not specifically targeted to or intended for use by children.

We will only use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes. Privacy laws in Canada generally define "Personal Information" as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person.

By accessing or using the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy, and you are consenting to our processing of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy. We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time; if we change this Privacy Policy in a manner that materially impacts your privacy rights, we will provide a notice to you. Your continued use of the Website or our services after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification. However, when required by law, we will confirm your consent to the revised Privacy Policy terms. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and considered a part of the Website Terms and Conditions of Use, located here


What information we collect

We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:


How we collect the information

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect directly from you may include:

Information We Collect While You Interact With Us Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies
Information We Collect About You From Third Parties

How we use your information

We use your information, including your Personal Information, to manage our business and to maintain and develop commercial relationships with you. We will collect, use, and disclose such information only to the extent that is necessary for those purposes.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:


How we share your information

We will not rent or sell your information to third parties without your consent. We only share your data as specifically provided in this Privacy Policy.

Other Disclosures

In addition to any disclosure you may have consented to or permitted under the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may transfer your data, including Personal Information to third parties in the following limited circumstances:

  1. information you expressly consent to be shared;
  2. when relating to anonymized information (individuals cannot be identified by it);
  3. when you decide to make the information indexable by search engines, to share or to distribute the information to people or otherwise to make it available to the public;
  4. to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request within or outside your country of residence when we have a good faith belief that the law requires it;
  5. to enforce this Privacy Policy, the Terms, or an agreement, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
  6. to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or protect the operations or you;
  7. to protect our rights, property or safety as well as yours, the public, or others;
  8. in connection with an acquisition, merger, change in control, debt financing, reorganization, sales of assets, bankruptcy or other change of our corporate structure or status; or
  9. as necessary in connection with the performance of requested services or solutions, or as otherwise appropriate in connection with a legitimate need.

How we store and secure your information

Information Security

We are committed to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy of your Personal Information. We have put appropriate physical, technological and procedural security measures in place designed to help prevent your Personal Information from being lost, used, modified or accessed in an unauthorized way, or improperly disclosed. Examples of such measures include restricted access to offices, training of personnel, using passwords and well-defined internal policies and practices. We also use encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers ("SSL") in all areas of the Website where your personal account information is required.

In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will be required to process your Personal Information only on our instructions and they are subject to an obligation of confidentiality. Our service providers are required to maintain adequate security protections in place designed to help safeguard your Personal Information and are not permitted to use it for any purpose other than fulfilling services to us.

If you have any questions about securing your personal data, please contact us in accordance with the “How to Contact Us” section below.

Information Retention

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as it is needed:

  1. to provide the products and services that you have requested;
  2. to communicate with you about a purchase or a request you have made to us;
  3. to manage your choices and rights you have exercised pursuant to this Privacy Policy;
  4. to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and to demonstrate compliance,
  5. to resolve disputes and to enforce our rights and agreements.

We may retain non-personal information that has been sufficiently aggregated or anonymized for a longer period.

Once the retention period is over, we will dispose of your Personal Information as provided for in our internal data retention and disposal policy.

Where We Store Information

We use facilities operated by "Amazon Web Services" and located in Canada as our information storage and processing infrastructure. Our service providers can also, from time to time, store your Personal Information in accordance with purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.


How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at 250 640-6370.