124 Street, Edmonton
The Flea Vintage is a community-driven thrift shop featuring local vendors from the Edmonton and Calgary area.
Best for Thrift shopping from local vendors
Vintage & Antiques of Canada
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Secondhand books and remaindered titles share the shelves at BMV Books, whose Toronto business began in 1997. Its Bloor Street West shop also carries vinyl and comics, adding other formats to the book selection. At Granville Island Broom Company, sisters Mary and Sarah Schwieger make brooms on-site with antique tools using Shaker and sorghum techniques. Vancouver's The Biltmore Cabaret occupies a former hotel bar on Kingsway, hosting live bands and DJ nights in its basement room.
Visit Facebook ↗Halifax / Canada
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 ↗Mile End, Montreal
Citizen Vintage in Montreal offers distilled collections of currently relevant vintage clothing for men and women.
Best for Vintage clothing for men and women
Saint-Henri, Montreal
The Vintage Frames Company in Montreal describes itself as the world's largest purveying initiative of designer vintage sunglasses.
Best for Designer vintage sunglasses
Ottawa / Canada
Hokum on Bank Street in Ottawa is a locally owned gift shop, filled with gifts and with vintage decor.
Best for Gifts and vintage decor
Visit official site ↗Penticton / Canada
Elizabeth O. Vintage is a curated vintage and lifestyle shop on Penticton's Main Street selling 70s-to-Y2K clothing, locally made jewelry, and home decor alongside sustainable garment-care products. The brick-and-mortar store also ships style bundles and vintage finds online across the South Okanagan and beyond.
Best for Fashion & Accessories, Vintage Clothing, Jewelry, Home Decor
Visit official site ↗Penticton / Canada
On the Naramata Bench above Okanagan Lake, Poplar Grove marks its 30th vintage of estate-grown wines with a tasting room, vineyard restaurant and online shop. Its reds, whites, roses and library releases can be bought online or on-site in Penticton.
Best for Wine, Okanagan, Naramata Bench, tasting room
Visit official site ↗Penticton / Canada
Ruby Blues Winery is a funky, family-run boutique winery on the Naramata Bench, recognizable by its vintage VW buses and art-filled tasting room. Opened in 2008 by Prudence and Beat Mahrer, it sells its wines by the glass or bottle on-site and ships directly to customers' doors.
Best for Naramata wine tastings among vintage buses and art
Visit official site ↗Downtown
Toronto used-book chain that opened its first store in 1997; its Bloor Street West superstore in the Annex, opened in 2005, adds roughly 1,000 secondhand and remaindered items a day alongside vinyl, comics and new releases.
Best for Used books, discounted new releases, academic texts, and a huge inventory
BMV Books opened its first Toronto location in March 1997, next to the since-closed World's Biggest Bookstore, as a secondhand shop that paid the public directly for used titles and supplemented its stock with publisher's overstock and remainders. A second store followed in September 1998 near Yonge and Eglinton. The Bloor Street West location - a larger-format store in the Annex neighborhood, close to downtown - opened in November 2005 and became the chain's flagship for general-interest used books. Alongside secondhand and new-release titles, the store carries DVDs, Blu-rays, vinyl records, CDs, magazines, comics and board games, and adds roughly 1,000 new items to inventory daily.
Visit official site ↗Kensington Market, Toronto
Courage My Love has operated in Toronto's Kensington Market since 1975, founded by Stewart and Patricia Scriver. The shop sells hand-picked vintage denim, cashmere and heritage garments alongside beads sourced from Java and Mexico and cultural artifacts ranging from masks to vintage furniture.
Best for Vintage clothing and curiosities
Visit official site ↗Leslieville, Toronto
Doll Factory by Damzels describes itself as offering Toronto's best dresses and more, since 1994. It lists a location at 1122 Queen St East in Toronto.
Best for Vintage dresses since 1994
Toronto
EG Bespoke's studio in Parkdale, Toronto designs custom engagement rings and bespoke jewellery, offering Montana, Australian and teal sapphires alongside antique, salt-and-pepper, Canadian and lab-grown diamonds. The studio donates 5% of sales to Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction.
Best for Custom engagement rings
Visit official site ↗Parkdale, Toronto
Era Antiques in Toronto sells vintage modern furniture, lighting, paintings, decoratives and antiques.
Best for Vintage modern furniture and antiques
1406 Old Bridge Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S6 / Vancouver / Canada
Sisters Mary and Sarah Schwieger make brooms on-site with antique tools and Shaker/sorghum technique learned from their parents' Kootenay shop; they opened the Granville Island shop more than 12 years before that report.
Best for Brooms made on site with antique tools and Shaker and sorghum techniques.
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Vancouver, BC label reproducing vintage American athletic wear from the 1930s-1960s - fleece sweatshirts and sweatpants cut and sewn in Canada, using loopback terry and mock-twist yarns sourced from Japan, with period-accurate labeling and finishing.
Best for Loopwheel sweats, vintage
National Athletic Goods is a sportswear label designed in Vancouver, British Columbia, drawing its aesthetic from American athletic wear of the 1930s through 1960s. The brand keeps production domestic to Canada and sources high-quality mock-twist yarns and loopback terry fabrics from Japan, using a distinctive yarn-dyeing process. The result positions the brand within the broader loopwheel/heavyweight-fleece revival trend, though made domestically in Canada rather than Japan.
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Mount Pleasant
Basement live-music room in a former hotel bar on Vancouver's Kingsway, reopened in 2007 by Zak Pashak (owner of Calgary's Broken City) after decades as a public house; 350-capacity venue for touring and local bands, DJ nights and dancing.
Best for Live music, DJs, and dancing in a vintage cabaret setting
The building at Kingsway and 12th Avenue in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood operated for decades as the Biltmore Hotel's public house, hosting touring acts including Miles Davis and, according to venue lore, The Beatles, before falling into obscurity. In 2007, Zak Pashak — owner of the Calgary venue Broken City — reopened the basement room as The Biltmore Cabaret, restoring its focus on live music. The 350-capacity room has since become a fixture of Vancouver's touring circuit for local, national and international bands, alongside club nights, DJ sets and dance parties.
Visit official site ↗Limoilou
Article 721 is a Vieux-Limoilou boutique open since November 2012 at 721, 3e Avenue in Québec. It sells work by Québec artists and designers alongside vintage and second-hand finds, with greeting cards and posters as the core of its online catalogue. The owners describe a mission of making local talent shine, and online orders are processed twice a week.
Best for Québec-made design, gifts, and stationery
Article 721 has occupied 721, 3e Avenue in Vieux-Limoilou, Québec, since November 2012. The shop describes itself as a small eclectic universe built from the work of Québec artists and designers, mixed with a collection of vintage and second-hand finds. Its two voices are Émilie H. and Marilyn B. L., who write on the site about following intuition and about a place where creativity has room. The stated mission is to make local artists and talent shine, and the search for new objects never stops. Greeting cards and posters lead the online catalogue, with stickers close behind them. Stationery and accessories complete the list of departments, and orders placed on the web are processed twice a week. The shop notes, with some pride, a rumour that a full tour of its shelves can take hours or even days. Makers who want to present their work are asked to write, and only selected applications receive a reply. Voilà Québec lists it under Limoilou shopping as a card and stationery boutique on 3e Avenue. In-store pickup and home delivery are both offered for online purchases.
Visit official site ↗Osoyoos / Canada
Curator Designs on Main Street in Osoyoos deals in ethically made home decor and vintage-style pieces.
Best for Home decor by artists, and vintage pieces
Visit official site ↗Mahone Bay / Canada
Established by Bill Lutwick in 1984 at Indian Point, this Mahone Bay yard builds and restores wooden sail and power boats up to 53 feet. Work spans new yacht interiors, vintage restorations, and custom masts and rigging.
Best for Boatbuilding, wooden boats, yacht restoration
Visit official site ↗Prince Edward County / Canada
This County general store at 768 County Road 12 represents more than 160 local artisans, artists, and Ontario food producers, selling everything from fine art prints to barn quilts and local preserves. A companion shop, Hayloft Antiques, sells vintage housewares and collectibles under the same roof.
Best for Multi-maker, Local Art, Gift Shop
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