Halifax / Canada
Duly Noted on Doyle Street in Halifax offers pens and ink, along with stationery and gifts for paper lovers.
Best for Pens, ink and stationery
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Visit official site ↗Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia
This Barrington Street shop and gallery, open since 1977, sells fine and custom jewellery from Canadian and international designers and keeps resident goldsmiths on staff. It also handles bridal commissions, repairs and estate pieces.
Best for Fine and custom jewellery
Visit official site ↗Downtown Halifax
Inkwell Modern Handmade, at 1453 South Park Street in Halifax, sells a curated collection of greeting cards, art prints and handmade wares from independent artists and makers. It also carries stationery, pottery, decor, jewelry and apothecary items.
Best for Handmade cards and gifts
Visit official site ↗Halifax, Nova Scotia
Founded in 1938, Java Blend is a Canadian coffee roaster and roasts single-origin and blended beans at its North Street cafe. A second counter operates downtown on Sackville Street.
Best for Single-origin and blended coffee roasted since 1938, one of Canada's oldest roasters
Visit official site ↗Downtown Halifax
Jennifer's of Nova Scotia is a family-owned shop in downtown Halifax, operating since 1978.
Best for Nova scotia gifts since 1978
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KingsPIER on Barrington Street in Halifax offers luxury vintage clothing, and the footwear to go with it.
Best for Luxury vintage clothing and footwear
Visit official site ↗Halifax, Nova Scotia
This shop knits British-wool sweaters on antique Swiss Dubied looms and stocks kilts, tartan and clan goods alongside work from Canadian artisans. It runs two Halifax locations, on Granville Street and at Pier 20, plus a Charlottetown store.
Best for Wool knitwear and tartan
Visit official site ↗Halifax, Nova Scotia
Open Book pairs Certified Fairtrade organic coffee from Nova Scotia's Laughing Whale with Atlantic Canadian titles from Nimbus Publishing and a dozen local presses. The Halifax shop hosts book launches, readings and house concerts on Strawberry Hill Street.
Best for Certified Fairtrade organic coffee from Laughing Whale Coffee
Open Book Coffee runs its two identities in the same room on Strawberry Hill Street: a bookstore stocked with Atlantic Canadian titles from a dozen independent local publishers, including Nimbus Publishing, and a coffee bar pouring exclusively Laughing Whale Coffee -- Certified Fairtrade organic beans roasted in small batches in Nova Scotia.
The pairing is deliberate rather than incidental. Neither side is a sideline to the other: the shop's stated focus is a comprehensive regional collection rather than bestseller racks, and its coffee sourcing is narrowed to a single certified roaster instead of a rotating list. That gives the shop a tighter identity than a general cafe-with-books setup.
The space also functions as a small venue, hosting book launches, readings and signings alongside house concerts -- events that lean on the room's dual purpose rather than treating either the books or the coffee as backdrop. An acknowledgment of Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People, appears on the site as part of how the shop frames its place in Halifax.
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Sock It To Ya on Doyle Street in Halifax keeps tights and hosiery, along with sleepwear and underwear.
Best for Tights, hosiery and sleepwear
Visit official site ↗Barrington Street, Halifax
Thief&Bandit makes handprinted, sustainable fashion in sizes XS to 4X, including made-to-order tops, sweaters, hoodies, pants and dresses. It emphasizes zero-waste garments made with sustainable fabrics and also offers reworked and upcycled pieces.
Best for Sustainable handprinted fashion xs to 4x
Visit official site ↗Halifax, Nova Scotia
At her Gottingen Street studio, Violeta Izquierdo designs and hand-fabricates one-of-a-kind jewellery, from engagement rings to statement pieces, in gold, silver and platinum. Custom and CAD-built commissions are the studio's focus.
Best for Custom, CAD-built engagement rings and statement jewelry hand-fabricated in gold, silver
Visit official site ↗Halifax, Nova Scotia
Open since 1978 and billed as Canada's oldest children's bookstore, Woozles fills its Halifax shop with children's books, toys and games. It hosts author events and story times.
Best for Children's books and toys
Woozles opened on Birmingham Street in downtown Halifax on October 14, 1978, founded by Ann Connor Brimer with Brian and Liz Crocker at a time when the city had no bookstore for children. Brian and Liz bought the building, a rambling old house painted bright yellow with a green door, and Liz was expecting their first child. The founders wanted a community place as much as a store, somewhere newcomers might ask where to find a daycare. Children's books share the shop with toys and games, and a comfy old chair in the corner invites reading on the spot. The shop calls itself Canada's oldest children's bookstore. Staff have stayed for decades. Original manager Trudy Carey retired in 2009 after 31 years, and Lisa Doucet then became co-manager with Liz Crocker. Past staff include author Hadley Dyer and illustrator Eric Orchard. The shop started a Battle of the Books for young readers in 1986, has run writing competitions, and in 2019 published books by two young writers to mark its 40th anniversary. Quill & Quire profiled the store at forty in 2018. In October 2021 Woozles left the yellow building off Spring Garden Road after 43 years, citing the age of the house and access for strollers, and moved with its old chair to a new building on Shirley Street in the West End, a move reported by CBC News.
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