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Yukon — see what's grown and made YT Northwest Territories — see what's grown and made NT Nunavut — see what's grown and made NU British Columbia — see what's grown and made BC Alberta — see what's grown and made AB Saskatchewan — see what's grown and made SK Manitoba — see what's grown and made MB Ontario — see what's grown and made ON Quebec — see what's grown and made QC Newfoundland and Labrador — see what's grown and made NL New Brunswick — see what's grown and made NB Prince Edward Island — see what's grown and made PE Nova Scotia — see what's grown and made NS
Dairy & cheese Grains & baking Fruit Vegetables Meat Fish & seafood Wine & ice cider Beer & cider Spirits Maple & birch Honey Pantry & snacks Coffee & drinks

Tap a province — everything below is grown, raised, brewed, distilled, recorded, written, or built in Canada, with the makers named.

British Columbia

Orchard fruit, ocean catch, and vineyard rows between the mountains and the Pacific.

Fruits & Vegetables

  • Okanagan apples
    The Ambrosia apple was discovered as a chance seedling in the Similkameen Valley.
    BC Tree Fruits Davison Orchards
  • Okanagan cherries
    Late-season BC cherries ship worldwide through July and August.
    Jealous Fruits BC Tree Fruits
  • Fraser Valley blueberries
    BC grows the vast majority of Canada's cultivated blueberries.
  • Hothouse peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers
    Windset Farms BC Hot House
  • Okanagan peaches and nectarines
    BC Tree Fruits

Meat & Seafood

  • Wild Pacific salmon (fresh and canned)
    Gold Seal Ocean's Skipper Otto
  • Smoked and candied salmon
    SeaChange Seafoods
  • Fanny Bay oysters
    Farmed in the clean waters of Baynes Sound, Vancouver Island.
    Fanny Bay Oysters
  • BC spot prawns
    The spring spot prawn season is a Vancouver food festival unto itself.

Dairy & Cheese

  • Fresh milk and cream
    Dairyland Avalon Dairy
  • Organic yogurt
    Olympic yogurt is made in Delta, BC.
    Olympic Dairy Tree Island Yogurt
  • Vancouver Island cheeses
    Natural Pastures Cheese Little Qualicum Cheeseworks
  • Fresh artisan cheese and curds
    Golden Ears Cheesecrafters Salt Spring Island Cheese

Wine

  • Okanagan white wines (Pinot Gris, Riesling)
    Gray Monk Quails' Gate Mission Hill
  • Okanagan red wines (Merlot, Syrah)
    Burrowing Owl Sandhill Mission Hill
  • BC icewine
    Inniskillin Okanagan

Beer & Cider

  • Craft lagers and pale ales
    Granville Island Brewing Phillips Brewing Parallel 49
  • Vancouver Island IPAs
    Driftwood Brewery Hoyne Brewing
  • Okanagan apple cider
    Broken Ladder is made by the BC Tree Fruits growers' co-op.
    Broken Ladder Lonetree Cider Sea Cider

Spirits

  • Gin
    Empress 1908 gets its indigo colour from butterfly pea blossom.
    Empress 1908 (Victoria Distillers) Sheringham Distillery
  • Fruit brandies and craft vodka
    Okanagan Spirits Odd Society Spirits

Pantry & Snacks

  • Kettle-cooked potato chips
    Hardbite
  • Organic cereals and granola
    Nature's Path is family-owned and headquartered in Richmond, BC.
    Nature's Path
  • Flour and oats milled in Armstrong
    Rogers Foods
  • Sea salt
    Vancouver Island Salt Co.
  • Snack crisps
    Hippie Snacks

Coffee & Juice

  • Coffee roasted in the Rockies
    Kicking Horse has roasted in Invermere since 1996.
    Kicking Horse Coffee
  • Vancouver craft roasters
    49th Parallel Ethical Bean Salt Spring Coffee
  • Apple and fruit juices
    SunRype has pressed Okanagan fruit in Kelowna since 1946.
    SunRype Happy Planet

Alberta

Ranchland beef, prairie honey, and a hundred years of rye whisky.

Meat

  • Alberta AAA beef
    Roughly half of Canada's beef cattle are raised in Alberta.
  • Italian sausage and cured meats
    Spolumbo's
  • Alpine-style charcuterie
    Valbella Gourmet Foods
  • Bison
    Carmen Creek
  • Organic chicken and eggs
    Sunworks Farm

Grains & Baking

  • Cold-pressed canola and flax oil
    Highwood Crossing
  • Gluten-free baking
    Kinnikinnick pioneered dedicated gluten-free baking from Edmonton.
    Kinnikinnick Foods
  • Malting barley
    Alberta barley malts much of the craft beer brewed across Canada.

Dairy & Cheese

  • Aged Gouda
    Sylvan Star's Grizzly Gouda is a repeat national award winner.
    Sylvan Star Cheese
  • Butter and ice cream
    Foothills Creamery MacKay's Ice Cream
  • Organic milk
    Vital Green Farms

Vegetables

  • Creamer potatoes
    The Little Potato Company started in an Edmonton garage.
    The Little Potato Company
  • Sugar beets
    Taber sugar beets supply Canada's only domestic beet sugar.
    Rogers Sugar (Lantic, Taber)
  • Taber corn

Honey

  • Clover and wildflower honey
    Alberta is Canada's largest honey-producing province.
    Bee Maid Chinook Honey Company

Beer

  • Traditional English-style ales
    Big Rock helped launch Canadian craft brewing in 1985.
    Big Rock Brewery
  • Calgary craft lagers
    Village Brewery
  • Central Alberta craft beer
    Troubled Monk Blindman Brewing
  • Edmonton craft beer
    Alley Kat Brewery
  • Mountain-town brews
    Grizzly Paw Brewing

Spirits

  • 100% rye whisky
    Alberta Premium is one of the world's few whiskies made from 100% rye grain.
    Alberta Premium (Alberta Distillers)
  • Farm-to-glass gin and vodka
    Eau Claire Distillery Park Distillery Wild Life Distillery

Coffee

  • Calgary specialty roasters
    Phil & Sebastian Fratello Coffee Rosso Coffee Roasters

Saskatchewan

The world's breadbasket: lentils, durum, mustard, and saskatoon berries.

Grains & Pulses

  • Lentils and chickpeas
    Saskatchewan is the world's largest lentil exporter.
    Three Farmers
  • Durum wheat
    Odds are your pasta's durum was grown in Saskatchewan.
  • Stone-ground organic flours
    Daybreak Mill
  • Roasted flax
    CanMar Foods
  • Northern wild rice
    Hand-harvested from lakes in Saskatchewan's boreal north.
    Northern Lights Foods

Pantry & Snacks

  • Mustard
    Saskatchewan grows most of the mustard seed used in the world's condiments.
    Gravelbourg Mustard
  • Camelina oil
    Three Farmers
  • Roasted chickpea and pea snacks
    Three Farmers
  • Saskatoon berry jam and syrup
    Prairie Berries Riverbend Plantation

Fruits

  • Saskatoon berries (frozen and dried)
    Prairie Berries in Keeler runs the world's largest saskatoon berry orchard.
    Prairie Berries
  • Haskap berries
    Cold-hardy haskap varieties were bred at the University of Saskatchewan.
  • Sour cherries
    U of S dwarf sour cherries thrive at -40.

Honey

  • Raw prairie-blossom honey
    Wendell Estate near MacNutt won platinum at the London International Honey Awards.
    Wendell Estate Honey Bee Maid

Meat

  • Mennonite-style sausage
    Drake Meats
  • Pasture-raised pork and poultry
    Pine View Farms
  • Bison

Beer

  • Original 16 and Great Western lagers
    Great Western was saved by its own employees when Molson left Saskatoon in 1989.
    Great Western Brewing
  • Regina craft beer
    Rebellion Brewing
  • Swift Current craft beer
    Black Bridge Brewery
  • Old Style Pilsner
    The bunny-covered 'Pil' label is a prairie icon.
    Old Style Pilsner (Molson)

Spirits

  • Award-winning gin
    Black Fox Farm & Distillery
  • Craft vodka and whisky
    Lucky Bastard Distillers
  • Dill pickle vodka
    Last Mountain Distillery

Manitoba

Hemp hearts, lake-caught pickerel, and the home of Crown Royal.

Grains & Baking

  • Hemp hearts
    Manitoba Harvest in Winnipeg is the world's largest hemp-food maker.
    Manitoba Harvest
  • Canola oil
    Richardson, one of Canada's oldest grain companies, is headquartered in Winnipeg.
    Canola Harvest (Richardson)
  • Winnipeg-style rye bread
    KUB has baked Winnipeg rye since 1923.
    KUB Bakery City Bread
  • Oats
    Manitoba and the eastern prairies grow much of the world's milling oats.

Dairy & Cheese

  • Cheddar and squeaky curds
    Bothwell has made cheese in New Bothwell since 1936.
    Bothwell Cheese
  • Milk and old-fashioned butter
    Notre Dame Creamery
  • Small-batch ice cream
    Chaeban Ice Cream

Meat & Seafood

  • Lake Winnipeg pickerel (walleye)
    Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp. Gimli Fish Market
  • Smoked Winnipeg goldeye
    A smoked-fish delicacy served on transcontinental railcars a century ago.
    Gimli Fish Market
  • Farmer sausage
    Winkler Meats
  • Perogies
    Naleway Foods

Vegetables

  • Potatoes, carrots and root vegetables
    Peak of the Market is a Manitoba growers' co-op dating to 1942.
    Peak of the Market

Honey

  • White clover honey
    Bee Maid is owned by the prairie beekeepers' co-ops, headquartered in Winnipeg.
    Bee Maid

Pantry & Snacks

  • Potato chips and popcorn twists
    Old Dutch has been a Winnipeg institution since 1954.
    Old Dutch
  • Russian mints and chocolates
    Mordens' of Winnipeg
  • Candy and nuts
    Nutty Club's smiling elephant has watched over Winnipeg since the 1930s.
    Nutty Club (Scott-Bathgate)

Beer & Spirits

  • Crown Royal whisky
    Every drop of Crown Royal is distilled and aged in Gimli, Manitoba.
    Crown Royal
  • Craft gin and vodka
    Capital K Distillery (Tall Grass) Patent 5 Distillery
  • Winnipeg craft beer
    Half Pints Brewing Little Brown Jug Torque Brewing
  • Fort Garry Dark and Standard Lager
    Fort Garry Brewing

Ontario

Niagara vines, Leamington tomatoes, and the biggest names on the grocery shelf.

Dairy & Cheese

  • Aged cheddar
    Eastern Ontario cheddar country at its best.
    Balderson Empire Cheese Maple Dale
  • Fresh cheese curds
    Squeaky curds from a francophone co-op east of Ottawa.
    Fromagerie St-Albert
  • Ice cream
    Chapman's (Markdale) and Kawartha Dairy (Bobcaygeon) are Ontario institutions.
    Chapman's Kawartha Dairy Central Smith Creamery
  • Butter
    Gay Lea Stirling Creamery
  • Artisan cheese
    Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheese Upper Canada Cheese Company

Grains & Baking

  • Oats, oatmeal & granola bars
    Milled at the historic Quaker plant in Peterborough since 1902.
    Quaker
  • Stone-milled flour
    Small Ontario mills grinding Ontario wheat.
    Arva Flour Mills 1847 Stone Milling K2 Milling
  • Artisan bread & baguettes
    ACE Bakery
  • Cookies & Bear Paws
    Dare has baked in Kitchener since 1892.
    Dare Foods

Fruits & Vegetables

  • Niagara peaches & tender fruit
    In season at every major grocer.
    Vineland Growers
  • Leamington greenhouse tomatoes & peppers
    The greenhouse capital of North America.
    SUNSET (Mastronardi Produce) Nature Fresh Farms Mucci Farms
  • Holland Marsh carrots & onions
    Grown in the black muck soil north of Toronto.
  • Ontario apples
    McIntosh, Empire and Honeycrisp from Georgian Bay and Norfolk County.
    Martin's Family Fruit Farm
  • Ontario asparagus
    Norfolk County spring crop.

Meat

  • Bacon & deli meats
    Schneiders has been a Kitchener name since 1890.
    Schneiders Maple Leaf
  • Ontario pork
    Farmer-owned co-op in Breslau.
    Conestoga Meats
  • European-style sausage & salami
    Piller's
  • Organic & grass-fed beef
    Beretta Farms

Wine

  • Niagara icewine
    Canada's signature wine, born in Niagara.
    Inniskillin Peller Estates Pillitteri Estates
  • Niagara Riesling & Chardonnay
    Cave Spring Henry of Pelham Tawse
  • Niagara reds (Cabernet Franc, Baco Noir)
    Jackson-Triggs Henry of Pelham
  • Prince Edward County Pinot Noir & Chardonnay
    Limestone-soil wines from the County.
    Closson Chase Sandbanks Huff Estates

Beer & Cider

  • Craft pilsner & lager
    Brewed in a Toronto roundhouse.
    Steam Whistle
  • Craft IPA & pale ale
    Collective Arts Great Lakes Brewery Wellington Brewery
  • Cottage-country ales
    Muskoka Brewery
  • Ontario apple cider
    Pressed from Georgian Bay and County apples.
    Thornbury Craft Co. County Cider Company West Avenue Cider

Spirits

  • Canadian whisky
    Windsor's Hiram Walker distillery is one of North America's largest.
    J.P. Wiser's Canadian Club Forty Creek
  • Small-batch gin
    Dillon's Small Batch Distillers Georgian Bay Spirit Co.
  • Craft vodka & liqueurs
    Dillon's Small Batch Distillers

Pantry & Snacks

  • French's ketchup
    Made in Ontario with 100% Canadian tomatoes from Leamington.
    French's
  • Canned tomatoes & pasta sauce
    Packed in Leamington.
    Unico Primo
  • Small-batch mustard
    A St. Lawrence Market original.
    Kozlik's
  • Kettle chips & salsa
    Neal Brothers
  • Potato chips
    Miss Vickie's started on a New Lowell, Ontario farm.
    Miss Vickie's
  • Ontario honey
    Billy Bee Dutchman's Gold

Coffee & Beverages

  • Roasted coffee beans
    Ontario roasters stocked at major grocers.
    Balzac's Muskoka Roastery Pilot Coffee Roasters Reunion Coffee Roasters

Quebec

From sugar shack to fromagerie — terroir on every shelf.

Dairy & Cheese

  • Oka cheese
    The monk-made original, since 1893.
    Agropur (Oka)
  • Poutine-ready cheese curds
    Fromagerie St-Guillaume Fromagerie Victoria
  • Fine artisan cheeses
    Louis d'Or and Pied-De-Vent are fromagerie royalty.
    Fromagerie du Presbytère Fromagerie du Pied-De-Vent Alexis de Portneuf
  • Yogurt
    Liberté began in Montreal in 1936.
    Liberté Riviera (Laiterie Chalifoux)
  • Butter
    Churned in Victoriaville.
    Lactantia
  • Ice cream
    An Eastern Townships pilgrimage brand.
    Laiterie de Coaticook

Maple

  • Maple syrup
    Quebec makes about three-quarters of the world's supply.
    Citadelle Decacer Escuminac
  • Maple butter
    Citadelle
  • Maple sugar & flakes
    Decacer
  • Tire d'érable (maple taffy)
    Sugar-shack candy in a can.

Grains & Baking

  • Montreal bagels
    Wood-fired legends, sold retail across the city.
    St-Viateur Fairmount Bagel
  • Organic flour
    Quebec's organic milling pioneer.
    La Milanaise
  • Sliced & artisan breads
    Boulangerie St-Méthode POM Première Moisson

Fruits & Vegetables

  • Lac-Saint-Jean wild blueberries
    Smaller, wilder, sweeter.
  • Cranberries, fresh & dried
    Centre-du-Québec is a cranberry powerhouse.
    Fruit d'Or Patience Fruit & Co
  • Île d'Orléans strawberries
    The island's summer crop is a Quebec ritual.
  • Montérégie apples

Meat

  • Quebec pork & bacon
    duBreton raises certified-humane organic pork.
    Olymel duBreton Lafleur
  • Montreal smoked meat
    Deli-counter briskets beyond the Main.
    Lester's Levitts
  • Brome Lake duck
    Raised in the Eastern Townships since 1912.
    Canards du Lac Brome

Wine & Ice Cider

  • Quebec whites & rosés
    Dunham's L'Orpailleur helped start it all.
    Vignoble de l'Orpailleur Coteau Rougemont Vignoble Rivière du Chêne
  • Ice cider (cidre de glace)
    Quebec invented it — apples frozen on the tree.
    Neige (La Face Cachée de la Pomme) Domaine Pinnacle Union Libre
  • Sparkling cider
    Michel Jodoin

Beer & Cider

  • Belgian-style ales
    La Fin du Monde and Blanche de Chambly, brewed in Chambly.
    Unibroue
  • Craft IPAs & stouts
    Dieu du Ciel! Brasserie Boréale Archibald
  • St-Ambroise pale ale & oatmeal stout
    Brewed in Montreal's Saint-Henri.
    McAuslan
  • Dry apple cider
    Michel Jodoin Cidrerie du Minot

Spirits

  • Quebec gin
    Ungava's yellow gin uses Nordic botanicals.
    Ungava Distillerie du St. Laurent Romeo's Gin
  • Maple whisky liqueur
    Sortilège Coureur des Bois

Pantry & Snacks

  • Kraft peanut butter
    Made only in Canada, at the Mont-Royal plant in Montreal.
    Kraft
  • St-Hubert BBQ & poutine sauces
    The rotisserie's sauces, jarred for home.
    St-Hubert
  • Snack cakes (Jos Louis, May West)
    Baked in Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce since 1923.
    Vachon
  • Potato chips
    Warwick's hometown chip.
    Yum Yum
  • Cookies & granola bars
    Leclerc
  • Yellow pea soup & canned beans
    Heritage Quebec pantry staples.
    Habitant Clark
  • Nuts & trail mix
    Krispy Kernels

Coffee & Beverages

  • Roasted coffee
    Van Houtte has roasted in Montreal since 1919.
    Van Houtte Café William
  • Loose-leaf tea
    DAVIDsTEA Camellia Sinensis
  • Kombucha & cold-pressed juice
    RISE Kombucha LOOP Mission

New Brunswick

Bay of Fundy tides, Ganong chocolate, and the chip trucks of the Saint John Valley.

Seafood

  • Brunswick sardines & canned seafood
    Packed in Blacks Harbour, home of the world's last big sardine cannery.
    Connors Bros. (Brunswick)
  • BeauSoleil oysters
    Petite cocktail oysters from Néguac.
    Maison BeauSoleil
  • Lobster
    Shediac calls itself the Lobster Capital of the World.
    Cape Bald Packers
  • Atlantic salmon
    True North Seafood (Cooke)
  • Dulse
    Hand-picked seaweed snack from Grand Manan.
    Roland's Dulse

Potatoes & Vegetables

  • Frozen french fries
    McCain was founded in Florenceville-Bristol, the French Fry Capital.
    McCain Foods
  • Fresh table potatoes

Pantry & Snacks

  • Covered Bridge potato chips
    Kettle-cooked in Hartland from local spuds.
    Covered Bridge Potato Chip Co.
  • Ganong chocolates & Chicken Bones
    Canada's oldest candy company, St. Stephen, est. 1873.
    Ganong Bros.
  • Sussex Golden Ginger Ale
    A beloved regional soft drink.

Maple

  • Maple syrup
    Including Indigenous-owned barrel-aged syrups from Neqotkuk.
    Wabanaki Maple

Beer

  • Moosehead lager
    Canada's oldest independent brewery, Saint John.
    Moosehead Breweries
  • Craft beer
    Picaroons Pump House Brewery

Spirits

  • Acadian gin & spirits
    Distillerie Fils du Roy
  • Small-batch whisky & moonshine
    Moonshine Creek Distillery

Dairy

  • Northumberland milk
    Miramichi dairy since 1942; the brand is now part of Agropur.
    Northumberland Dairy (Agropur)

Nova Scotia

Lobster wharves, tidal vineyards, and the Annapolis Valley orchard belt.

Seafood

  • Lobster
    South Shore and southwest NS land Canada's biggest lobster catch.
    Clearwater Fisherman's Market
  • Digby scallops
    Clearwater Adams & Knickle
  • Smoked salmon
    Danish-style wood-smoked on the Eastern Shore.
    J. Willy Krauch & Sons St. Mary's River Smokehouses
  • Haddock & cod fillets
    High Liner Foods
  • Snow crab

Fruit

  • Wild blueberries
    Oxford is the wild blueberry capital of Canada.
    Oxford Frozen Foods
  • Annapolis Valley apples
    Honeycrisp, Gravenstein, and more from the Valley.
    Scotian Gold

Wine

  • Tidal Bay white
    The province's signature appellation white.
    Jost Vineyards Blomidon Estate Luckett Vineyards Domaine de Grand Pré Lightfoot & Wolfville
  • Sparkling wine
    Cool-climate bubbles from the Gaspereau Valley.
    Benjamin Bridge

Beer & Cider

  • Craft beer
    Garrison Brewing Propeller Brewing Tatamagouche Brewing 2 Crows Brewing
  • Alexander Keith's IPA
    Brewed in Halifax since 1820 (now under Labatt/AB InBev).
    Alexander Keith's
  • Craft cider
    Annapolis Cider Company Bulwark Cider

Spirits

  • Glen Breton single malt whisky
    North America's first single malt, from Cape Breton.
    Glenora Distillery
  • Rum & liqueurs
    Made in a Lunenburg blacksmith shop.
    Ironworks Distillery
  • Gin & vodka
    Compass Distillers Steinhart Distillery Nova Scotia Spirit Co.

Dairy

  • Scotsburn ice cream
    The historic NS brand is now made by Agropur.
    Scotsburn (Agropur)
  • Farmers milk & butter
    Halifax dairy, now part of the Agropur co-op.
    Farmers Dairy (Agropur)
  • Farmstead cheese
    Try Dragon's Breath blue.
    Fox Hill Cheese House That Dutchman's Cheese Farm

Pantry & Snacks

  • Peace by Chocolate
    Founded in Antigonish by the Syrian-Canadian Hadhad family.
    Peace by Chocolate
  • Tancook sauerkraut
    A Lunenburg-area tradition.
    M.A. Hatt & Son

Maple

  • Maple syrup & maple cream
    Acadian Maple Products

Coffee

  • Fair-trade roasted coffee
    Co-op roaster in Grand Pré.
    Just Us! Coffee Roasters

Prince Edward Island

Red-soil potatoes, Malpeque oysters, and butter from a true island co-op.

Potatoes & Vegetables

  • Fresh PEI potatoes
    A quarter of Canada's potatoes grow in the island's red soil.
  • Frozen fries & hash browns
    Cavendish Farms

Seafood

  • Blue mussels
    PEI grows most of North America's cultured mussels.
    Confederation Cove
  • Malpeque oysters
    Raspberry Point Oyster Co. Colville Bay Oyster Co.
  • Lobster

Dairy

  • ADL butter, cheese & milk
    Amalgamated Dairies is still a farmer-owned island co-op.
    ADL (Amalgamated Dairies)
  • COWS ice cream & Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar
    COWS Creamery

Honey

  • Honibe honey drops & gummies
    Pure-honey lozenges from Charlottetown.
    Island Abbey Foods (Honibe)

Pantry & Snacks

  • Island preserves
    Small-batch jams from New Glasgow.
    Prince Edward Island Preserve Co.

Spirits

  • Strait Shine moonshine
    Legal island 'shine from Rollo Bay.
    Myriad View Artisan Distillery
  • Potato vodka
    Prince Edward Distillery
  • Small-batch liqueurs & gin
    Deep Roots Distillery

Beer

  • Craft beer
    PEI Brewing Co. (Gahan) Upstreet Craft Brewing Barnone Brewery

Wine

  • Island fruit & grape wines
    Rossignol Estate Winery Matos Winery

Newfoundland and Labrador

Snow crab, hard bread, and berries picked off the barrens.

Seafood

  • Snow crab
    The province's most valuable fishery.
    Quinlan Brothers Barry Group
  • Wild cod & salt fish
    Hand-lined cod from the Fogo Island co-op fishery.
    Fogo Island Fish
  • Atlantic salmon
    Mowi Canada East
  • Coldwater shrimp

Pantry & Snacks

  • Purity Jam Jams, cream crackers & hard bread
    St. John's institution baking since 1924.
    Purity Factories
  • Wild berry jams & teas
    Bakeapple and partridgeberry from the Great Northern Peninsula.
    Dark Tickle Company
  • Sea salt
    Hand-harvested from the North Atlantic.
    Newfoundland Salt Company
  • Chocolate
    Newfoundland Chocolate Company

Fruit

  • Bakeapples (cloudberries)
    Sold as preserves and syrups.
    Dark Tickle Company
  • Partridgeberries & wild blueberries

Beer

  • Iceberg Lager
    Brewed with 20,000-year-old iceberg water.
    Quidi Vidi Brewery
  • Craft beer
    YellowBelly Brewery Port Rexton Brewing

Spirits

  • Newfoundland Screech rum
    The rum of the screech-in ceremony.
    Newfoundland Screech
  • Seaweed gin & aquavit
    Newfoundland Distillery Co.

Wine

  • Wild berry wines
    Auk Island Winery Rodrigues Winery

Yukon

Midnight-sun brews and birch syrup from the Klondike.

Beer

  • Yukon Gold & Lead Dog Ale
    'Beer worth freezin' for,' brewed in Whitehorse.
    Yukon Brewing
  • Craft beer
    Winterlong Brewing

Spirits

  • Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt
    Small-batch single malt from the Yukon Brewing team.
    Yukon Spirits

Coffee

  • Whitehorse-roasted coffee
    Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters Bean North Coffee Roasting

Birch Syrup

  • Yukon birch syrup
    Tapped and boiled near Dawson City.
    Uncle Berwyn's Yukon Birch Syrup

Northwest Territories

Great Slave Lake fish and wild-foraged flavours from off the grid.

Fish

  • Great Slave Lake whitefish & lake trout
    From one of the last big inland commercial fisheries.

Beer

  • Craft beer
    Brewed at The Woodyard in Yellowknife's Old Town.
    NWT Brewing Co.

Pantry

  • Wild teas, spruce tips & foraged spices
    Hand-harvested off-grid near Yellowknife.
    Laughing Lichen

Nunavut

Arctic char and turbot from the top of the world.

Seafood

  • Arctic char
    Fresh, frozen, and smoked from Rankin Inlet and Pangnirtung.
    Kivalliq Arctic Foods Pangnirtung Fisheries
  • Turbot (Greenland halibut)
    Inuit-owned fleets fish the Davis Strait.
    Baffin Fisheries Qikiqtaaluk Fisheries
  • Coldwater shrimp
    Baffin Fisheries

Country Foods

  • Caribou & muskox
    Processed in Rankin Inlet; sold mainly within Nunavut.
    Kivalliq Arctic Foods

Beer

  • Iqaluit-brewed beer
    Canada's northernmost brewery.
    Nunavut Brewing Co. (NuBrewCo)

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Toronto — AI customer-service agents for businesses
Benevity
Calgary — workplace giving and volunteering platform
D2L (Brightspace)
Kitchener, ON — online learning platform used by schools worldwide
OpenText
Waterloo, ON — Canada's largest software company (enterprise information management)
BlackBerry
Waterloo, ON — reinvented as automotive and cybersecurity software (QNX)

Hardware & Devices

Canadian devices you can actually buy — smart homes, e-readers, and world-class hi-fi.

ecobee
Toronto — the smart thermostat pioneer; owned by US-based Generac since 2021
Nanoleaf
Toronto — modular smart light panels
Mysa
St. John's, NL — smart thermostats for baseboard and in-floor heating
Kobo
Toronto — e-readers designed in Toronto (Rakuten-owned since 2012)
Paradigm
Mississauga, ON — loudspeakers, many still built in Canada
Bryston
Peterborough, ON — handmade amplifiers with a legendary 20-year warranty
Totem Acoustic
Montréal — high-end speakers, handcrafted since 1987
PSB Speakers
Pickering, ON — Paul Barton's speaker brand, Canadian-owned (Lenbrook)

Music

Stream Canadian, but better: buy direct or on Bandcamp, and hit your local record shop.

The Tragically Hip
Rock — Kingston, ON; the band that soundtracked the country
Joni Mitchell
Folk legend — raised in Saskatchewan
Leonard Cohen
Poet-songwriter — Montréal, QC
Neil Young
Rock/folk — Toronto-born, Winnipeg-raised
Rush
Prog rock — Toronto, ON
Céline Dion
Pop — Charlemagne, QC
Shania Twain
Country-pop — Timmins, ON
Drake
Hip-hop — Toronto, ON
Justin Bieber
Pop — Stratford, ON; busked on the Avon Theatre steps
The Weeknd
R&B/pop — Toronto, ON
Arcade Fire
Indie rock — Montréal, QC
Feist
Indie pop — Calgary-raised
Alvvays
Indie pop — Toronto via the Maritimes
Charlotte Cardin
Pop — Montréal, QC
Les Cowboys Fringants
Québécois folk-rock institution — Repentigny, QC
Tanya Tagaq
Inuk throat singer and experimental artist — Cambridge Bay, NU
The Halluci Nation
Electronic powwow — Ottawa, ON (formerly A Tribe Called Red)
Jessie Reyez
R&B — Toronto, ON
Arts & Crafts
Label — Toronto (Broken Social Scene, Feist)
Secret City Records
Label — Montréal (Patrick Watson, Basia Bulat)
Dine Alone Records
Label — Toronto (City and Colour, Alexisonfire)
Six Shooter Records
Label — Toronto (Tanya Tagaq, Whitehorse)
Bonsound
Label — Montréal (Les Louanges, Lisa LeBlanc)
Your local record shop
Buy albums direct from artists on Bandcamp, or from an independent record store near you

Books & Publishing

World-class Canadian writers, fiercely independent Canadian presses — and your local indie bookstore.

Margaret Atwood
Fiction/poetry — Toronto, ON (The Handmaid's Tale)
Alice Munro
Nobel-winning short stories — Huron County, ON
Michael Ondaatje
Fiction/poetry — Toronto, ON (The English Patient)
Esi Edugyan
Fiction — Victoria, BC (Washington Black, two-time Giller winner)
Louise Penny
Mystery — Eastern Townships, QC (Inspector Gamache series)
Kim Thúy
Fiction — Montréal, QC (Ru)
Richard Wagamese
Ojibwe storyteller — Kamloops, BC (Indian Horse)
Eden Robinson
Haisla/Heiltsuk fiction — Kitamaat, BC (Son of a Trickster)
Emily St. John Mandel
Fiction — BC-born (Station Eleven)
Heather O'Neill
Fiction — Montréal, QC (Lullabies for Little Criminals)
House of Anansi Press
Independent publisher — Toronto, ON
Coach House Books
Independent publisher — Toronto, ON, printing on-site since 1965
Biblioasis
Independent publisher and bookshop — Windsor, ON
Douglas & McIntyre
Independent publisher — BC, strong Indigenous and West Coast list
Éditions du Boréal & Écosociété
Leading independent French-language publishers — Montréal, QC
Kobo
Toronto-born e-reader and ebook store, still run from Toronto (owned by Japan's Rakuten since 2012)
Your local indie bookstore
Order through your neighbourhood independent — most ship or hold your order

Everyday & Household

Clothes, coffee, and cupboard staples that are genuinely made (or headquartered) in Canada — caveats included.

Stanfield's
Truro, NS — underwear and base layers, made in Nova Scotia since 1856
DUER
Vancouver, BC — performance denim built for actually moving
Tilley
Toronto, ON — the iconic Tilley hat, still made in Toronto
Canada Goose
Toronto, ON — parkas manufactured in Canadian factories
Roots
Toronto, ON — leather goods made at its Toronto workshop; much of the apparel is made overseas
Manitobah
Winnipeg, MB — Indigenous-owned mukluks and moccasins
Peace by Chocolate
Antigonish, NS — chocolate from the Syrian-Canadian Hadhad family
Kicking Horse Coffee
Invermere, BC — still roasted in the Rockies; majority-owned by Italy's Lavazza since 2017
Rocky Mountain Soap Co.
Canmore, AB — natural soap and skincare made in the Rockies
Green Beaver
Hawkesbury, ON — family-owned natural personal care
ATTITUDE
Montréal, QC — natural household and body care products
Nature's Path
Richmond, BC — organic cereals; still independent and family-owned
Risograph print of Canadian staples — wheat, an apple, a fish, a milk bottle, a maple leaf, and a glass of wine

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