Algonquin Tea Company
Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario
Certified organic herbal teas made from botanicals grown and wild-harvested near Algonquin Park since 1996 (Pine Tea, Sacred Blend, the Algonquin Collection), plus the Wild @ Heart line of imported black, green, and oolong teas blended with Ontario and Quebec herbs.
Eganville, ON CA · algonquintea.com
Algonquin Tea Company is a founder-run herbal tea maker in Eganville, Ontario, operating since 1996 and now also trading as Local Canadian Tea, that grows and wild-harvests its own botanicals in Ontario and Quebec. Its Algonquin Collection and Pine Tea are made entirely from Canadian plants, while the newer Wild @ Heart line adds imported organic black, green, and oolong teas to those herbs. It sells direct and through roughly 380 independent health food stores and pharmacies listed on its store locator, which names a single Metro store in Blainville, Quebec, and has suspended US shipping over tariffs.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The site presents the company as founded and led by Kim Elkington, who signs the story page as president and founder, and names no investor or parent. No legal entity is named anywhere on the site, Corporations Canada returned zero results for both Algonquin Tea and Local Canadian Tea, which points to an Ontario provincial registration, and the Ontario Business Registry could not be checked, so this rests on the vendor's own statement.
- Our Story - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “Kim Elkington – President and Founder”
- Our Story - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “Since 1996, almost 30 years, we've operated as the Algonquin Tea Company, making herbal teas from amazing plants that grow in one of the truly beautiful places of the world”
- Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada registry “Searched for: Corporate name: Algonquin Tea 0 results were found, 0 returned.”
- Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada registry “Searched for: Corporate name: Local Canadian Tea 0 results were found, 0 returned.”
Manufacturing
100.0 reportedCA 100%
The vendor says its herbs are grown or wild-harvested, hand-picked, and naturally dried by the company itself, and its only address is a rural property in Eganville, Ontario. The site never names the blending and packing site, so the assumption that finishing happens at the Eganville address is inferred from the absence of any other facility.
- FAQ - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “our herbs are sustainably harvested and or organically grown, hand-picked and naturally dried”
- Pine Tea - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “We have been wild harvesting in Ontario and Quebec for decades”
- Contact Us - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “106 Augsburg Road, RR5 Eganville, Ontario, Canada K0J 1T0”
People
100.0 reportedCA 100%
A single-site business with its only listed address, phone, and email in Eganville, Ontario. The FAQ describes the team as a small collective based in the Canadian wilderness where they live, and no other office or staff location was found.
- Contact Us - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “106 Augsburg Road, RR5 Eganville, Ontario, Canada K0J 1T0”
- FAQ - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “our herbs are sustainably harvested and or organically grown, hand-picked and naturally dried”
Inputs
76.0 reportedCA 70% · other 30%
Seven of the thirteen products, the six Algonquin Collection blends and Pine Tea, list only botanicals grown or wild-harvested in Ontario and Quebec, described as 90 percent organic grown and 10 percent wild-harvested. The six Wild @ Heart blends start from imported certified organic Ceylon black, Japanese green, or oolong tea with additions such as bergamot oil and chai spices, so the OTHER share is an estimate by product line count for that leaf and flavouring. Packaging origin, including the compostable tea bags, was not stated.
- Sacred Blend: Pine, Sweetgrass & Sage Tea | Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “Ingredients: white pine*, sweetgrass*, sage*. *90% organic and 10% wild-harvested”
- Pine Tea - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “We have been wild harvesting in Ontario and Quebec for decades”
- Wild @ Heart Collection - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “Each blend begins with premium certified organic black tea, green tea, oolong tea, or chai, then is enhanced with locally grown and hand-harvested herbs from Ontario and Quebec.”
- Blue Moon - Algonquin Tea vendor_statement “Ingredients: Spruce Tips, Ceylon Black Tea, Bergamot Oil, Blue Cornflower”
Where to buy
- Direct 96.4
Grocers
- Organic, hand-picked, indigenous herbs and blended herbal teas. vendor_statement “Metro Richelieu 2000 INC 0127 - Metro Blainville Blainville QC”