6 stores · curated ORBIS register
Calgary
Smithbilt has blocked and finished felt and straw hats in Calgary since 1919, and its white cowboy hat became the city's civic emblem and a Stampede fixture. The workshop still steams, shapes, and sands each hat by hand, building custom fits alongside its signature ten-gallon whites.
Best for Custom felt and straw cowboy hats
352 Sainte-Catherine East, Montreal, QC H2X 1L7 / Montreal / Canada
Founded 1932 by Honorius Henri and Jean-Maurice Lefebvre; The hat store still reblocks hats.
Best for Locally made hats and millinery.
Downtown
Coffee shop inside Toronto's 1897 Dineen Building at 140 Yonge Street, opened in 2013 after the heritage-listed building's restoration; named for the Dineen Hat and Fur Company, the original 1897 tenant, and known for its 15-foot ceilings and bronze-and-aluminum detailing.
Best for Hat and fur retailer W&F Dineen
Dineen Coffee Co. opened in spring 2013 at the corner of Yonge and Temperance Streets in downtown Toronto, inside the Dineen Building — built in 1897 for W. and F. Dineen Co., a fur and hat manufacturer, and now a designated Toronto Heritage Property. The café's interior keeps the building's original architectural detailing on display: elaborate crafting on the ceiling and columns, floor-to-ceiling windows, paired with a contemporary addition, a signature red-leather banquette. The company describes its approach as marrying that heritage architecture with "the contemporary Toronto lifestyle" rather than converting the space into a period-piece museum café. Its offerings include espresso drinks, freshly baked croissants, and a retail selection of bagged coffee, serving both a local clientele and visiting tourists drawn to the address. The distinguishing fact here is architectural and datable rather than a general claim of atmosphere: this is a heritage-listed 1897 fur-trade showroom repurposed as a coffee shop, not a newly built space designed to look historic, and the building's heritage status is a matter of public record rather than marketing language.
Toronto / Canada / Online
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.
Best for Canada's unofficial uniform
72 Queen Street, Charlottetown
On Queen Street, this shop trades in merchandise tied to Lucy Maud Montgomery's heroine, stocking straw-hat-and-braids dolls, illustrated editions of the novels and Green Gables keepsakes and ornaments. It has long served as the go-to source for Anne memorabilia in the character's home province.
Best for Anne of Green Gables gifts and memorabilia
Cache Creek, British Columbia (Hat Creek)
Historic Hat Creek is a preserved 1860s roadhouse ranch on the old Cariboo Wagon Road just north of Cache Creek, with heritage buildings, a blacksmith and stagecoach rides. Its shop carries local crafts and period goods tied to the site's gold-rush past.
Best for Cariboo gold-rush heritage and local crafts
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