Buy Canada, from people you can name.

Map of Canada — what to buy, by province

Yukon — see what to buy YT Northwest Territories — see what to buy NT Nunavut — see what to buy NU British Columbia — see what to buy BC Alberta — see what to buy AB Saskatchewan — see what to buy SK Manitoba — see what to buy MB Ontario — see what to buy ON Quebec — see what to buy QC Newfoundland and Labrador — see what to buy NL New Brunswick — see what to buy NB Prince Edward Island — see what to buy PE Nova Scotia — see what to buy NS
Dairy & cheese Grains & baking Fruit Vegetables Meat Fish & seafood Wine & ice cider Beer & cider Spirits Maple & birch Honey Pantry & snacks Coffee & drinks Homegrown tech

Tap a province — everything below is grown, raised, brewed, distilled, recorded, written, or built in Canada — and every maker chip is a link to buy from them.

British Columbia

Orchard fruit, ocean catch, and vineyard rows between the mountains and the Pacific.

Fruits & Vegetables

  • Okanagan apples
    The Ambrosia apple was discovered as a chance seedling in the Similkameen Valley.
    Davison Orchards
  • Okanagan cherries
    Late-season BC cherries ship worldwide through July and August.
    Jealous Fruits
  • Fraser Valley blueberries
    BC grows the vast majority of Canada's cultivated blueberries.
  • Hothouse peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers
    Windset Farms BC Hot House
  • Okanagan peaches and nectarines

Meat & Seafood

Dairy & Cheese

Wine

Beer & Cider

Spirits

Pantry & Snacks

Coffee & Juice

Homegrown Tech

  • GrantOrb
    Vancouver — AI grant writing and the Supplier Passport (that's us)
  • Clio
    Burnaby — legal practice software used by law firms worldwide
  • Jane App
    North Vancouver — clinic booking and charting for health practitioners
  • Thinkific
    Vancouver — build and sell online courses
  • Hootsuite
    Vancouver — the social media management pioneer

Alberta

Ranchland beef, prairie honey, and a hundred years of rye whisky.

Meat

Grains & Baking

  • Cold-pressed canola and flax oil
    Highwood Crossing
  • Gluten-free baking
    Kinnikinnick pioneered dedicated gluten-free baking from Edmonton.
    Kinnikinnick Foods
  • Malting barley
    Alberta barley malts much of the craft beer brewed across Canada.

Dairy & Cheese

Vegetables

Honey

Beer

Spirits

Coffee

Homegrown Tech

  • Benevity
    Calgary — workplace giving and volunteering platform
  • Jobber
    Edmonton — the app running thousands of home-service businesses
  • Neo Financial
    Calgary — Canadian challenger banking and rewards

Saskatchewan

The world's breadbasket: lentils, durum, mustard, and saskatoon berries.

Grains & Pulses

Pantry & Snacks

Fruits

  • Saskatoon berries (frozen and dried)
    Prairie Berries in Keeler runs the world's largest saskatoon berry orchard.
    Prairie Berries
  • Haskap berries
    Cold-hardy haskap varieties were bred at the University of Saskatchewan.
  • Sour cherries
    U of S dwarf sour cherries thrive at -40.

Honey

Meat

Beer

Spirits

Homegrown Tech

  • Vendasta
    Saskatoon — software local agencies use to serve small businesses
  • 7shifts
    Saskatoon — staff scheduling for restaurants everywhere
  • Coconut Software
    Saskatoon — appointment booking for banks and credit unions

Manitoba

Hemp hearts, lake-caught pickerel, and the home of Crown Royal.

Grains & Baking

Dairy & Cheese

Meat & Seafood

Vegetables

  • Potatoes, carrots and root vegetables
    Peak of the Market is a Manitoba growers' co-op dating to 1942.
    Peak of the Market

Honey

  • White clover honey
    Bee Maid is owned by the prairie beekeepers' co-ops, headquartered in Winnipeg.
    Bee Maid

Pantry & Snacks

Beer & Spirits

Homegrown Tech

  • Bold Commerce
    Winnipeg — checkout and subscription tools for online stores
  • Payworks
    Winnipeg — Canadian payroll for thousands of employers
  • SkipTheDishes
    Winnipeg-born food delivery (owned by Just Eat Takeaway since 2016)

Ontario

Niagara vines, Leamington tomatoes, and the biggest names on the grocery shelf.

Dairy & Cheese

Grains & Baking

Fruits & Vegetables

Meat

Wine

Beer & Cider

Spirits

Pantry & Snacks

Coffee & Beverages

Homegrown Tech

  • Shopify
    Ottawa — the e-commerce platform behind millions of independent stores
  • Cohere
    Toronto — Canada's frontier AI lab (the Command model family)
  • 1Password
    Toronto — password manager trusted by families and businesses
  • Wealthsimple
    Toronto — investing, saving, and tax filing for Canadians
  • BlackBerry QNX
    Waterloo — the software inside millions of cars
  • D2L (Brightspace)
    Kitchener — online learning used by schools worldwide
  • ecobee
    Toronto — the smart thermostat pioneer
  • Nanoleaf
    Toronto — modular smart light panels
  • Kobo
    Toronto — e-readers designed here (Rakuten-owned since 2012)

Quebec

From sugar shack to fromagerie — terroir on every shelf.

Dairy & Cheese

Maple

Grains & Baking

Fruits & Vegetables

  • Lac-Saint-Jean wild blueberries
    Smaller, wilder, sweeter.
  • Cranberries, fresh & dried
    Centre-du-Québec is a cranberry powerhouse.
    Fruit d'Or Patience Fruit & Co
  • Île d'Orléans strawberries
    The island's summer crop is a Quebec ritual.
  • Montérégie apples

Meat

Wine & Ice Cider

Beer & Cider

Spirits

Pantry & Snacks

Coffee & Beverages

Homegrown Tech

  • Lightspeed
    Montréal — the point-of-sale behind cafés and shops worldwide
  • Hopper
    Montréal — the flight and hotel deals app
  • Coveo
    Québec City — AI-powered search and recommendations
  • Behaviour Interactive
    Montréal — Canada's largest independent game studio (Dead by Daylight)

New Brunswick

Bay of Fundy tides, Ganong chocolate, and the chip trucks of the Saint John Valley.

Seafood

Potatoes & Vegetables

  • Frozen french fries
    McCain was founded in Florenceville-Bristol, the French Fry Capital.
    McCain Foods
  • Fresh table potatoes

Pantry & Snacks

  • Covered Bridge potato chips
    Kettle-cooked in Hartland from local spuds.
    Covered Bridge Potato Chip Co.
  • Ganong chocolates & Chicken Bones
    Canada's oldest candy company, St. Stephen, est. 1873.
    Ganong Bros.
  • Sussex Golden Ginger Ale
    A beloved regional soft drink.

Maple

Beer

Spirits

Dairy

Homegrown Tech

  • Introhive
    Fredericton — relationship intelligence for professional firms

Nova Scotia

Lobster wharves, tidal vineyards, and the Annapolis Valley orchard belt.

Seafood

Fruit

Wine

Beer & Cider

Spirits

Dairy

Pantry & Snacks

Maple

Coffee

Homegrown Tech

  • Proposify
    Halifax — proposal software for sales teams
  • Dash Hudson
    Halifax — social media analytics for global brands

Prince Edward Island

Red-soil potatoes, Malpeque oysters, and butter from a true island co-op.

Potatoes & Vegetables

  • Fresh PEI potatoes
    A quarter of Canada's potatoes grow in the island's red soil.
  • Frozen fries & hash browns
    Cavendish Farms

Seafood

Dairy

Honey

Pantry & Snacks

Spirits

Beer

Wine

Newfoundland and Labrador

Snow crab, hard bread, and berries picked off the barrens.

Seafood

Pantry & Snacks

Fruit

Beer

Spirits

Wine

Homegrown Tech

  • Mysa
    St. John's — smart thermostats for baseboard heating
  • Verafin
    St. John's — fraud detection guarding North American banks (Nasdaq-owned since 2021)
  • CoLab
    St. John's — design review software for engineering teams

Yukon

Midnight-sun brews and birch syrup from the Klondike.

Beer

Spirits

  • Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt
    Small-batch single malt from the Yukon Brewing team.
    Yukon Spirits

Coffee

Birch Syrup

Northwest Territories

Great Slave Lake fish and wild-foraged flavours from off the grid.

Fish

  • Great Slave Lake whitefish & lake trout
    From one of the last big inland commercial fisheries.

Beer

Pantry

  • Wild teas, spruce tips & foraged spices
    Hand-harvested off-grid near Yellowknife.
    Laughing Lichen

Nunavut

Arctic char and turbot from the top of the world.

Seafood

Country Foods

Beer

Beyond the grocery aisle

Canadian, coast to coast to coast

Buying Canadian doesn't stop at the checkout. The software you run, the music you play, the books on your shelf — a lot of the world's best is made here too.

AI & Software

Canadian-built software and AI you can actually switch to — from world-class LLMs to everyday business tools.

Cohere
Toronto — enterprise AI and LLMs (Command model family)
GrantOrb
Grant-writing AI for nonprofits and small orgs — find grants and draft proposals
Shopify
Ottawa — the e-commerce platform powering millions of independent stores
1Password
Toronto — password manager trusted by families and businesses worldwide
Wealthsimple
Toronto — investing, saving, and tax filing for Canadians
Clio
Burnaby, BC — legal practice management software used by law firms globally
Jane App
North Vancouver, BC — clinic booking and charting for health practitioners
Thinkific
Vancouver — build and sell online courses from your own site
Hootsuite
Vancouver — social media management pioneer, still HQ'd in BC
Ada
Toronto — AI customer-service agents for businesses
Benevity
Calgary — workplace giving and volunteering platform
D2L (Brightspace)
Kitchener, ON — online learning platform used by schools worldwide
OpenText
Waterloo, ON — Canada's largest software company (enterprise information management)
BlackBerry
Waterloo, ON — reinvented as automotive and cybersecurity software (QNX)

Hardware & Devices

Canadian devices you can actually buy — smart homes, e-readers, and world-class hi-fi.

ecobee
Toronto — the smart thermostat pioneer; owned by US-based Generac since 2021
Nanoleaf
Toronto — modular smart light panels
Mysa
St. John's, NL — smart thermostats for baseboard and in-floor heating
Kobo
Toronto — e-readers designed in Toronto (Rakuten-owned since 2012)
Paradigm
Mississauga, ON — loudspeakers, many still built in Canada
Bryston
Peterborough, ON — handmade amplifiers with a legendary 20-year warranty
Totem Acoustic
Montréal — high-end speakers, handcrafted since 1987
PSB Speakers
Pickering, ON — Paul Barton's speaker brand, Canadian-owned (Lenbrook)

Music

Stream Canadian, but better: buy direct or on Bandcamp, and hit your local record shop.

The Tragically Hip
Rock — Kingston, ON; the band that soundtracked the country
Joni Mitchell
Folk legend — raised in Saskatchewan
Leonard Cohen
Poet-songwriter — Montréal, QC
Neil Young
Rock/folk — Toronto-born, Winnipeg-raised
Rush
Prog rock — Toronto, ON
Céline Dion
Pop — Charlemagne, QC
Shania Twain
Country-pop — Timmins, ON
Drake
Hip-hop — Toronto, ON
Justin Bieber
Pop — Stratford, ON; busked on the Avon Theatre steps
The Weeknd
R&B/pop — Toronto, ON
Arcade Fire
Indie rock — Montréal, QC
Feist
Indie pop — Calgary-raised
Alvvays
Indie pop — Toronto via the Maritimes
Charlotte Cardin
Pop — Montréal, QC
Les Cowboys Fringants
Québécois folk-rock institution — Repentigny, QC
Tanya Tagaq
Inuk throat singer and experimental artist — Cambridge Bay, NU
The Halluci Nation
Electronic powwow — Ottawa, ON (formerly A Tribe Called Red)
Jessie Reyez
R&B — Toronto, ON
Arts & Crafts
Label — Toronto (Broken Social Scene, Feist)
Secret City Records
Label — Montréal (Patrick Watson, Basia Bulat)
Dine Alone Records
Label — Toronto (City and Colour, Alexisonfire)
Six Shooter Records
Label — Toronto (Tanya Tagaq, Whitehorse)
Bonsound
Label — Montréal (Les Louanges, Lisa LeBlanc)
Your local record shop
Buy albums direct from artists on Bandcamp, or from an independent record store near you

Books & Publishing

World-class Canadian writers, fiercely independent Canadian presses — and your local indie bookstore.

Margaret Atwood
Fiction/poetry — Toronto, ON (The Handmaid's Tale)
Alice Munro
Nobel-winning short stories — Huron County, ON
Michael Ondaatje
Fiction/poetry — Toronto, ON (The English Patient)
Esi Edugyan
Fiction — Victoria, BC (Washington Black, two-time Giller winner)
Louise Penny
Mystery — Eastern Townships, QC (Inspector Gamache series)
Kim Thúy
Fiction — Montréal, QC (Ru)
Richard Wagamese
Ojibwe storyteller — Kamloops, BC (Indian Horse)
Eden Robinson
Haisla/Heiltsuk fiction — Kitamaat, BC (Son of a Trickster)
Emily St. John Mandel
Fiction — BC-born (Station Eleven)
Heather O'Neill
Fiction — Montréal, QC (Lullabies for Little Criminals)
House of Anansi Press
Independent publisher — Toronto, ON
Coach House Books
Independent publisher — Toronto, ON, printing on-site since 1965
Biblioasis
Independent publisher and bookshop — Windsor, ON
Douglas & McIntyre
Independent publisher — BC, strong Indigenous and West Coast list
Éditions du Boréal & Écosociété
Leading independent French-language publishers — Montréal, QC
Kobo
Toronto-born e-reader and ebook store, still run from Toronto (owned by Japan's Rakuten since 2012)
Your local indie bookstore
Order through your neighbourhood independent — most ship or hold your order

Everyday & Household

Clothes, coffee, and cupboard staples that are genuinely made (or headquartered) in Canada — caveats included.

Stanfield's
Truro, NS — underwear and base layers, made in Nova Scotia since 1856
DUER
Vancouver, BC — performance denim built for actually moving
Tilley
Toronto, ON — the iconic Tilley hat, still made in Toronto
Canada Goose
Toronto, ON — parkas manufactured in Canadian factories
Roots
Toronto, ON — leather goods made at its Toronto workshop; much of the apparel is made overseas
Manitobah
Winnipeg, MB — Indigenous-owned mukluks and moccasins
Peace by Chocolate
Antigonish, NS — chocolate from the Syrian-Canadian Hadhad family
Kicking Horse Coffee
Invermere, BC — still roasted in the Rockies; majority-owned by Italy's Lavazza since 2017
Rocky Mountain Soap Co.
Canmore, AB — natural soap and skincare made in the Rockies
Green Beaver
Hawkesbury, ON — family-owned natural personal care
ATTITUDE
Montréal, QC — natural household and body care products
Nature's Path
Richmond, BC — organic cereals; still independent and family-owned
Risograph print of Canadian staples — wheat, an apple, a fish, a milk bottle, a maple leaf, and a glass of wine

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