Just reposting this as I thought it was pretty amazing and would be appreciated here.

Hey all,

I'm in the early stages of starting a small outdoor apparel brand based in Ontario. I want to create quality cold-weather baselayers and mid-layers. I want to keep as much of the supply chain in Canada as I reasonably can.

From what I've learned so far, Canadian wool isn't produced at scale for the fibre quality needed for baselayers. If anyone knows otherwise, I'd love to be wrong. Otherwise, my plan is to import the fabrics and cut, sew, and assemble in Canada.

What I'm looking for is a cut-and-sew shop, ideally in Ontario (open to elsewhere in Canada if the fit is right), that handles small MOQs to start (~100–500 units each) and has experience with performance knits like fine merino jersey, polyester/elastane, polypropylene blends, sweater-knit fleece and is comfortable working with imported fabric.

If anyone has information or experience I'd greatly appreciate any help I can get.

Thanks in advance.

r/BambolettaDolls

I’m Christina, the founder and head doll lady.

We’re a small Canadian company that’s been making dolls for 23 years. I employ 24 people, mostly women and stay at home moms, and we source our materials within Canada as much as we possibly can.

If these tariffs continue, they pose a very real threat to a little business I’ve spent 23 years building. So, fellow Canucks, I’m asking for a bit of help.

And if you’re another Canadian maker or small business caught up in all of this and just need someone to scream into the void with… I’m here for that too.

Thank you so much for reading this and your support!

Elbows Up, friends! 🇨🇦

Christina 

Bamboletta.com

We need more Canadian companies like this 👍

Lets not forget another 100% Canadian ice cream company. I know I cannot stay away from their Moose Tracks!

Hey everyone,

I’m working with a small hardware team based in BC, Canada, developing a Next-Gen generator. Before we finalise our production specs, we want to hear directly from the people who actually rely on these machines.

We put together a short, anonymous survey to understand current pain points, fuel preferences, and what features actually matter to you.

It takes less than 5 minutes to complete, and your feedback will directly shape how we build this hardware.

if you have the time, please do consider completing it and sharing your thoughts. Thanks!

Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevGcbymyfOKOV4OWzxvRSeN6-NNBKlEdZKEMUsRvI5i1lOFQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

All the more reason to look for Product of Canada or Made in Canada

Solid wood furniture that lasts. Beautiful cutting boards that make your guests envy.

Hi! I’m a Canadian artisan woodcrafter building quality furniture, cutting boards, and home goods with solid Canadian wood locally sourced in Ontario and Quebec, including walnut, maple, cherry, and more.

Follow my woodworking journey at my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studiocanopy?igsi=MWZ6aDg3amhoaWI3eQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

And my Etsy shop: https://canopystudioca.etsy.com

Thanks for supporting Canadian small business!

Hi! I’m Marifini, a polymer clay artist from Ontario, Canada, and I create tiny handmade gnomes—each one individually sculpted by hand right here in Ontario. 🇨🇦✨

My miniature gnome collection is designed to bring a little bit of whimsy to your home all year long. There are different themes and seasonal collections, individual gnomes or complete scenes, so you can build a little gnome world that changes with the seasons—from spring and summer adventures to Halloween, Christmas, Canadian-inspired scenes, and everything in between.

No two gnomes are exactly alike, and I love packing as much personality and detail as possible into these tiny characters. ❤️

📦 Shipping: Gnomes are shipped with tracking, so you can follow your little friends on their journey to their new home!

If you love miniatures, handmade art, tiny things with big personalities, or collecting whimsical characters, come check out the gnomes of Marifini Hollow! 🍄

Website: www.marifini.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marifiniartstudio

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marifiniartstudio/

Thought this might be useful for some in identifying Canadian food.

All American… Pay a bit more and buy Canadian.

Do you guys know of any application that could scan the barcode and show place where the product was made?
Please suggest

Here are some of the wallets handmade all the way from cutting, saddle stitching to finishing at my home studio in Vancouver. Full grain leather I source is Italian.

Instagram : check out my work here and send me a message if you want something built.

Website : in stock products, most of my work is custom if you like something send me a Instagram message or email.

I make handmade silver art in the Canadian Prairies and was asked by a client to make a set of lobotiny tools in finesilver. Thanks for looking!

Seen this and thought it belonged here too

Anyone know if other provinces have the same type of site?

Hey all *waves*! I am u/spyeagle100 one of the new mods implemented to this group.

I would like to know what you are most interested to see here? Is it products made in Canada 🇨🇦? Services? Are we wanting a list maintained to make it easier to find Canadian products?

How many here are Canadian? Made in Canada or have choosen to make the greatest country in the world your home?

Finally, how many here are from outside of Canada but just have an interest in Canadian products? (We just make them better 😆)

Lets introduce ourselves, say hello 👋 and make some new cool friends! ❤️

I built a fun and slightly silly (but highly productive) project called Cue - Control Without Confrontation because I could feel small work frustrations starting to follow us home with my business partner, who also happens to be the love of my life.

We run an e-commerce business together, and as it grew, there were constantly things that needed to get done. Order this. Send that. Follow up with someone. Fix something before noon. Normal business stuff.

The problem wasn’t the work. It was the follow-up.

I’m very Type A. I like knowing what needs to happen, when it needs to happen, and I’m probably guilty of setting deadlines that are more ambitious than they need to be. But weirdly, I also hate asking someone close to me the same thing twice.

So I’d ask once, wait, wonder if it was done, wait some more, then eventually say:

“Hey, did you get a chance to do that thing?”

And even when the question was completely reasonable, it started to feel like nagging.

That gets old very quickly when the person you’re following up with is also the person you live with.

At some point I remember thinking: this would be so much easier if something else could do the awkward part for me.

I still wanted visibility. I still wanted to know what was due. I still wanted things moving. I just didn’t want every unfinished task to turn into a tiny relationship negotiation.

So I built Cue.

The basic idea is pretty simple.

I tell Cue what I need someone to handle and when.

Cue asks them.

They choose whether they can do it and agree to a time.

Then Cue follows up with them for me.

If they’re on track, I don’t need to hear about it. If they need something from me, Cue brings me back in.

That’s really it.

We also deliberately made the main view just Today and Tomorrow instead of another giant weekly task list. Usually there are only a few things that actually matter today. Everything else can wait.

There are also two visual styles because I wanted the app to feel a little more personal than the average productivity tool: Modern, which is clean and calm, and Retro, which has a more playful old-school feel. Same Cue underneath, just two completely different moods depending on what you like looking at every day.

The biggest surprise for us was how much calmer that made the business feel.

We weren’t spending as much time mentally tracking whether the other person had done something. We weren’t constantly interrupting each other with little follow-ups. And when work was over, there was less business tension bleeding into our actual relationship.

The way I think about it now is:

If I could do everything myself, I wouldn’t need Cue.

Cue is for the stuff that still matters to me, but depends on someone else.

I get the control I need without having to become the person constantly reminding everyone.

The iPhone app is the main experience, but the person you Cue doesn’t need the app.
They can receive the request and respond by text.

I’m also trying to keep the philosophy pretty simple: free, no AI pretending to run your life, and no need to hand over a bunch of sensitive personal data.

It’s basically a small tool for people who are a bit too Type A to stop caring, but not confrontational enough to enjoy chasing people.

That’s me, apparently.

If that sounds familiar, I’d genuinely love to know whether this is a problem other founders, couples, roommates, or teams run into too.

Made in Montreal!

Cue - Control Without Confrontation <-- Early waitlist available!