Canadian bags split between handmade leather and Vancouver backpacks. Wilder Goods hand-makes leather and canvas bags, wallets, aprons, from a workshop that still answers its own phone. m0851 designs and makes full-grain leather bags in Montreal. Herschel Supply Co packs backpacks, travel bags, everyday carry from Vancouver. Smell the leather first; the honest kind announces itself before the price tag does.
Jamie Parker and Mike Wenzlawe founded Canadian Heritage Roasting Company after developing their roasting instincts an unlikely way — on the fireline, working as wildland firefighters before either of them opened a roastery.
Best for Coffee that funds one tree planting per bag sold
Jamie Parker and Mike Wenzlawe founded Canadian Heritage Roasting Company after developing their roasting instincts an unlikely way — on the fireline, working as wildland firefighters before either of them opened a roastery. That background led to a roastery in Calgary's Ramsay neighborhood, branded as "Canada's tree-planting coffee company," with a tree planted for every bag sold.
The firefighting-to-roasting path gives the company's environmental branding a more literal grounding than most: two founders who spent years working around wildfire and forest land built a coffee business whose central promise is putting trees back.
Between the fireline origin story and the per-bag tree-planting commitment, Canadian Heritage ties its founders' former profession directly to what the business gives back with every sale.
Acquired Taste Tea Company, located on 124th Street in Edmonton, sells loose leaf teas and tea bags in varieties including Earl Grey, green, black, herbal, flavoured and oolong. The shop also carries teapots and gifts.
Montreal's original bagel bakery, opened by Isadore Shlafman in 1919 and still hand-rolling and wood-firing bagels at 74 Fairmount West in Mile End. The shop sells its bagels fresh over the counter and through local delivery apps.
Best for Hand-rolled, wood-fired bagels from Montreal's original bagel bakery
A Montreal house designing and making full-grain leather bags, wallets and accessories along with jackets and outerwear. Its range is sold online and through its own boutiques.
Best for Leather-goods, bags, accessories, outerwear
Holocaust survivor Myer Lewkowicz opened St-Viateur in Montreal's Mile End on 21 May 1957, one of the city's first bagel shops; after his death, longtime employee Joe Morena bought the business and kept the original recipe unchanged. Dough is still hand-rolled, boiled in honey-water and wood-fired in a stone oven at the flagship and its other Montreal locations, with bagels shipped across North America.
Best for The original 1957 hand-rolled, honey-boiled, wood-fired Montreal bagel
Myer Lewkowicz, a Holocaust survivor who arrived in Canada in 1953, opened St-Viateur Bagel in Montreal's Mile End neighborhood on 21 May 1957, one of the city's first dedicated bagel shops. After his death, Joe Morena, an Italian immigrant who had worked at the bakery for years, bought the business and kept Lewkowicz's recipe and process unchanged.
That process is what distinguishes the Montreal bagel from its New York counterpart: dough is hand-rolled by feel, briefly proofed, boiled in honey-sweetened water, then baked in a wood-fired stone oven that gives the crust its characteristic char and the bagel its sweeter, denser bite. The technique has not been mechanized since 1957.
St-Viateur has grown to seven locations across Montreal, from the original Mile End flagship, open around the clock, to newer cafés in Laval, Anjou and Dollard-Des Ormeaux, and now ships its hand-rolled, wood-fired bagels across North America.
Perfect Books is a carefully curated independent bookshop on Elgin Street in Ottawa, stocking new fiction and non-fiction for the passionate reader. It sells titles and its own tote bags through an online shop and in store, open seven days a week.
Best for Curated new fiction, nonfiction and tote bags
The Aga Khan Museum Shop curates artisan-made goods from across the Silk Route, including scarves, ceramics, and jewelry sourced directly from craftspeople such as Baghdad-born candlemaker Nazhat Hadi. It operates as a full online store with worldwide shipping, plus in-store pickup for orders placed through the museum's Toronto location.
A single craftsman hand-stitches each bespoke piece at Norfolk Handmade's Toronto studio, using leathers sourced from respected tanneries. The atelier makes bespoke leather handbags, including the MJ Crossbody, and bag charms.
Canadian lifestyle brand since 1973 — the salt and pepper sweatsuit, leather bags, and Canada's unofficial uniform. Official outfitter of the Canadian team at Nagano 1998; the red 'poorboy' cap sold more than 500,000 units.
Zumel & Co describes itself as a Toronto women's clothing store. It lists dresses, skirts, tops, pants, shorts, bodysuits, coats, jackets, handbags, hats and accessories.
Vancouver backpack and accessories brand founded in 2009 by brothers Jamie and Lyndon Cormack. Its Gastown store at 347-349 Water Street, opened June 2018 inside the historic Greenshields Building, was the company's first North American store and its largest in the world.
Best for Backpacks, travel bags and everyday carry
Herschel Supply Co. was founded in Vancouver in 2009 by brothers Jamie and Lyndon Cormack, who named the company after Herschel, Saskatchewan, the small prairie town where three generations of their family had lived. The brand built its early reputation on backpacks before expanding into luggage, bags and accessories, growing into a company sold internationally. In June 2018 it opened its Gastown store at 347-349 Water Street, on the ground floor of the historic Greenshields Building, in the neighbourhood where the company began. At roughly 5,000 square feet, the store was Herschel's first physical location in North America and, at opening, its largest store anywhere. The interior was designed by Omer Arbel, creative director of the Vancouver-and-Berlin design house Bocci, marking his first retail project; the space was one of the few retail units in Gastown that had not been subdivided over previous decades. Herschel later also opened a separate flagship on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, positioned as a distinct location from the original Gastown store.
Muskoka Roastery Coffee Co. roasts Canadian-branded coffee with a sustainability bent, offering fresh blends, decaf and industry-first compostable pods. Customers order through its online shop with free shipping over seventy-four dollars, or find the bags in stores across Canada.
Best for Roasts Canadian-branded coffee with a sustainability bent, offering fresh blends
Muskoka Roastery Coffee Co. has operated for more than 25 years from Huntsville, Ontario, roasting Canadian-branded coffee built around a stated sustainability position: all of its coffee is sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, and the company holds B Corp certification, meaning it has been independently assessed against standards for social and environmental performance. Muskoka donates 1% of every sale to protect Canadian landscapes, tying its retail business directly to conservation. Its blends carry names drawn from Canadian wildlife and culture — Black Bear, Loon Call, Howling Wolf — alongside flavored options like Butter Tart, and its decaf is produced using the Swiss Water Process, a chemical-free decaffeination method. The company was an early mover into compostable single-serve pods, marketed as an alternative to standard plastic pods, extending its sustainability positioning into the convenience-format side of its business. Coffee is sold through its own online shop with free shipping on orders over $74 within Canada, as well as through retail placement in stores across the country. The combination of Rainforest Alliance sourcing, B Corp status, and a 1%-for-conservation pledge gives Muskoka a more explicitly documented sustainability chain than most small regional roasters.
Serving Jasper since 1911, this retailer sells and rents ski, snowboard and Nordic gear along with camping and swim equipment for summer. Staff install bindings and handle repairs on site, carrying brands including Patagonia, Salomon, K2 and Baffin.
Best for Ski, snowboard and Nordic gear from a shop trading since 1911
Wilder Goods designs and hand-produces leather and canvas bags, wallets and aprons at its Winnipeg studio-storefront, which combines production and retail in one space. New pieces can be bought in person or shipped through the brand's online shop.
Best for Handmade leather and canvas bags, wallets and aprons
Wildfire Coffee Roasters takes orders by text message and donates 5% of every bag to wildfire and disaster relief via the Red Cross and SPCA. Its bestselling Initial Attack Medium Roast ships from Kamloops with free in-city delivery.
Best for Wildfire Coffee Roasters takes orders by text message and donates 5%
Wildfire Coffee Roasters skips a conventional storefront and online cart altogether — customers place orders by texting 778-220-9649 with their item, quantity, address, and name, then pay by e-transfer, card, or cash on delivery. It's a direct-to-neighbour model shaped by where the company operates: Kamloops, a region that has lived through repeated wildfire seasons, which is also why 5% of every bag sold goes to wildfire and disaster relief through the Red Cross and the SPCA. The bestselling Initial Attack Medium Roast, a 340-gram bag named for the firefighting term for the first response to a new blaze, sits alongside seasonal releases like the 'Sleighin' It' Holiday Dark Roast and merchandise such as ceramic camp mugs. Orders placed before Wednesday at midnight get free delivery within Kamloops by Friday; anyone outside city limits pays standard Canada Post rates. The company has said an online store is coming, but for now the text-in system is the entire storefront — a small-batch roaster reachable by phone number rather than a checkout page, with its charitable cut baked into every bag rather than treated as a seasonal promotion.
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