21 stores · curated ORBIS register
Canadian ceramics gather a country's kilns under single roofs, a Montreal collective at one end of the map and a Cape Breton studio at the other. Articho presents pottery and more from nearly 100 Quebec and Canadian artisans in Montreal. Gardiner Shop sets ceramics, jewelry and glass in a Toronto museum shop. Cape Breton Clay throws handmade functional stoneware pottery. Canadian studios sign their work, so ask who threw the piece and where it was fired.
Calgary Farmers' Market
Run by Cristina and Sofia at the Calgary Farmers' Market, CRAFTED gathers the work of emerging Canadian makers across jewellery, ceramics, apparel, and bath goods. The storefront acts as a shared shelf for small-batch and handmade producers, with online ordering and pickup.
Best for Locally made handmade goods
Beltline, Calgary
Open on 17th Avenue in Calgary's Beltline since 1993, Steeling Home began as an artist-run co-op and still centres Canadian-made goods. It stocks handmade jewellery, ceramics, and home wares alongside its own Steeling Home Originals designed with Alberta artists.
Best for Canadian-made gifts and home goods
Edmonton, Alberta
Run by the Alberta Craft Council, this Edmonton gallery shop stocks handcrafted pottery, blown and fused glass, jewellery, woodwork, fibre art and furniture from more than 150 Alberta-based makers. It represents emerging, mid-career and established artists side by side.
Best for Alberta-made craft and home goods
75 Melville Street, Elora
This not-for-profit arts centre in a former stone schoolhouse runs a curated Artisan Market stocking pottery, jewellery, prints and self-care goods from up to fifty local makers. Proceeds support the centre's exhibitions, workshops and community programs.
Best for Local artisan crafts and prints
31 Church Street West, Elora
Established in 1984, this working studio throws and sells handmade pottery from the premises where the potters live. Visitors can buy finished pieces or sign up for wheel classes and workshops.
Best for Handmade pottery and wheel classes
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
Villeray (300 Villeray Street) / Online
Independent Montreal multi-maker shop presenting pottery, jewellery, skincare, art and gifts from Quebec and Canadian artisans.
Best for Products from nearly 100 artisans from Quebec and Canada — pottery, jewelry
Old Montreal (88 Saint-Paul Est) / Online
The cooperative’s selection spans functional ceramics, jewellery, clothing, textiles and decorative work by professional Quebec makers. Its maker profiles let shoppers connect individual pieces with the person and process behind them.
Best for Craft cooperative offering Quebec artisanal creations — jewelry, fashion accessories, decorative objects, cera
1356 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3G 1J1 / Montreal / Canada
Founded 1906 as the Canadian Guild of Crafts / Canadian Handicrafts Guild; Like a Local Guide treats buying handmade jewellery, sculpture, textiles and ceramics as the point of the visit.
Best for Handmade jewellery, sculpture, textiles and ceramics.
Toronto / Online
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.
Best for Museum shop, Islamic art, artisan goods
Distillery District, Toronto
DISH Gallery + Studio was opened in 2006 by ceramic designer Susan Card, who trained at Sheridan College, in the Artscape Building in Toronto's Distillery Historic District. The gallery celebrates Canadian ceramic artists, featuring Card's wheel-thrown porcelain and smoke-fired pottery alongside work by other Canadian ceramists, and offers hands-on ceramics workshops.
Best for Canadian ceramics and workshops
Toronto / Canada
The Gardiner Museum's shop at 111 Queen's Park in Toronto sells one-of-a-kind ceramics, glass, jewellery, and textiles handmade by local and international artists, with regular meet-the-artist events. Gardiner Friends get 10 percent off both in-store and through the shop's online storefront.
Best for Ceramics, jewelry, glass, museum-shop
Granville Island
Circle Craft is an artist-run co-operative of British Columbia craftspeople, incorporated in 1974 and based since 1984 in the Net Loft on Granville Island at 1-1666 Johnston Street. Around 140 members sell ceramics and glass, wood and textiles, and jewellery through the shop, whose gallery mounts monthly exhibitions. The co-op also runs a Christmas market at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.
Best for British Columbia ceramics, jewellery and textiles
Circle Craft is an artist-run co-operative of British Columbia craftspeople. It formed in 1972 by its own account, began trading in Victoria in 1973 and incorporated as a co-op in 1974. It moved to Vancouver by 1977, trading first off Gassy Jack Square in Gastown. In 1984 it opened the shop it still keeps in the Net Loft on Granville Island, at 1-1666 Johnston Street. The co-op is owned and run by its members, and it sustains itself on sales commission and participation fees. A purchase therefore goes back to the maker rather than to a middleman. The shop and gallery carry contemporary and traditional work in clay and glass as well as fibre and wood, together with metal and mixed media. Around 140 members from across the province supply it, and the gallery mounts monthly exhibitions alongside member pop-ups. Its Christmas market has been a fixture at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre since 1987. Circle Craft sells more than 1.3 million dollars of members' work a year. It marked fifty years in September 2024, when it revived an annual scholarship for a craft student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Granville Island, Vancouver
Gallery of BC Ceramics is run by the Potters Guild of BC in Vancouver and features work from its member artists. The Guild also provides members access to a community gas kiln.
Best for BC ceramic artists' work
Dingwall, Cabot Trail
Arts North is a juried craft collective in Dingwall, near the northern tip of the Cabot Trail, showing pottery, jewellery, wood, fibre, quilts, weaving, prints and glass from artisans across Cape Breton Island. The work draws on the island's landscape and heritage, blending traditional technique with contemporary design.
Best for Cape Breton pottery, textiles and glass under one roof
Margaree Valley, Cabot Trail
Cape Breton Clay is potter Bell Fraser's studio and showroom in the Margaree Valley, just off the Cabot Trail. She throws functional stoneware for the kitchen and table, sold direct from the workshop.
Best for Handmade functional stoneware pottery
Golden, British Columbia
The Golden Artisan Co-op on 9th Avenue North gathers handmade work from local makers, from soaps and pottery to textiles and regional honey. Run as a rent-based cooperative, every item on its shelves is made by hand rather than bought in wholesale.
Best for Locally handmade goods
Main Street, downtown Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Running in downtown Antigonish since at least 2007, Happenstance gathers the work of local makers under one roof. Shelves carry local pottery, ceramics, jewellery, artwork, candles, books and Scottish gift items.
Best for Local crafts, pottery and Nova Scotia / Scottish gifts
Tofino / Canada
House of Himwitsa sells fairly traded Northwest Coast First Nations masks, carvings and jewelry, plus soap, apparel and pottery, from its native arts and gift centre on Main Street in downtown Tofino. The gallery runs a full Shopify store alongside its walk-in shop and adjoining lodge.
Best for Fairly traded Northwest Coast First Nations masks, carvings and jewelry, plus soap
Halifax, Nova Scotia
This artisan boutique carries work from more than two hundred Maritime makers, including pewter, tartan blankets, pottery, glass art and lobster-rope goods. It runs two Halifax shops, at Bayers Lake and the Hydrostone Market.
Best for Maritime-made gifts and crafts
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Potter Andrew McCullough runs this downtown studio, throwing minimalist, Japanese-influenced tableware and stocking the province's first dedicated clay, tools and glaze supply. Classes and finished work share the McLeod Avenue space.
Best for Hand-thrown tableware and pottery supplies
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