Bamboletta Dolls

OrgBook BC shows Bamboletta Dolls Ltd. (BC0929576) as an active BC company incorporated in January 2012, following a sole proprietorship of the same name registered in November 2005, but BC's registry does not publish a shareholder or significant-control register the way Corporations Canada's federal one does. The vendor's own contact page has founder Christina saying she personally answers all customer emails, and no acquisition, parent company, or outside investor turned up in searches, so the mix rests on the vendor's founder-led framing rather than a registry filing.

• OrgBook BC registry “BAMBOLETTA DOLLS LTD.”
• OrgBook BC registry “BAMBOLETTA DOLLS”
• Contact Bamboletta - Handmade Dolls – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “It's really just me, Christina, answering all the emails”

The vendor states every doll is handmade in Canada by its own team, explicitly contrasting this with an overseas factory, and every page carries a 'Handmade in Canada' badge. Production splits between a Cowichan Valley studio and the homes of the 'sewing mamas' who work there, with no manufacturing outside Canada mentioned anywhere on the site.

• FAQ – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “made by local moms who are paid well - not made in an overseas factory!”
• Bamboletta - Handmade Waldorf Dolls Made on the Westcoast of Canada – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “Each Bamboletta doll is made by hand on the West Coast of Canada.”

Mail is addressed to a Vancouver, BC address and the contact page says founder Christina personally answers all customer emails. Production staff, described on the vendor's own pages as 24 to 32 women plus a few husbands who make the doll heads, work from a Cowichan Valley studio and their own homes, and madeinca.ca corroborates the Vancouver location. No location outside British Columbia is mentioned anywhere.

• Contact Bamboletta - Handmade Dolls – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “Bamboletta Dolls 1723 Grant Street Vancouver, BC V5L 2Y6 Canada”
• Our Fabric Doll Story – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “there are now 24 ladies that work together”
• Our Handmade Cloth Dolls – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “32 ladies (including a few of our hubbies that make the heads)”
• Toys & Games | Made in CA directory “Located in Vancouver, BC”

The FAQ states doll bodies are sewn from 'specially-milled cotton from the Netherlands' and stuffed with 'natural, western Canadian wool'. Hair is made from wool, mohair, and alpaca yarns with no stated origin, estimated here as internationally sourced given mohair and alpaca are not typically Canadian fibres. The storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, and the vendor says it sources materials locally 'as much as possible', but the cotton is an explicit non-Canadian input.

• FAQ – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “Body sewn with specially-milled cotton from the Netherlands”
• FAQ – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “Stuffed with natural, western Canadian wool”
• FAQ – Bamboletta Dolls, Ltd vendor_statement “Hair made with wool, mohair, and alpaca yarns”