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Cool Canuck

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Burlington, Ontario maker of cooling t-shirts, running socks, Canada hoodies, cooling bandanas and towels, and neck gaiters, all sold direct and stated to be made in Canada.

Burlington, ON CA · www.coolcanuck.com

90.6

Cool Canuck is a small Burlington, Ontario company selling cooling base layers, socks, and Canada hoodies direct from its own WooCommerce site, and it states that its whole apparel line is made in Canada. The legal entity is not named anywhere on the site, Corporations Canada has no record, and the Ontario registry could not be checked, so ownership rests on the vendor's own statements; most of its performance fabrics are unnamed synthetic technologies that are probably imported.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The hoodies page says the product is made by a Canadian company in Canada, the returns address is 1416 Thornton Rd in Burlington, Ontario, and the social handles are coolcanuckcorp, which points to a small corporation. The site never names the legal entity, Corporations Canada returned zero results for cool canuck, so this is presumably an Ontario corporation, and the Ontario Business Registry, OpenCorporates, and LinkedIn could not be checked this session. No acquisition or investor press was found; madeincanadadirectory.ca lists it as a Burlington business, which is directory corroboration only.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The home page says the products are made locally with manufacturing in Canada, and the t-shirt, hoodie, chill tube, and cooling towel product pages each list made in Canada, as does the technology page for the neck gaiters and hoodies. The vendor names no factory, knitter, or cut-and-sew partner, and US orders ship from a Niagara Falls, New York address, which is a fulfillment point rather than a plant. madeincanadadirectory.ca repeats the claim that the entire apparel line is made in Canada, which is corroboration only.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The only Canadian address the vendor publishes is the Burlington, Ontario returns address, and the site has no careers page, so this reads as a single-site small business. The US returns address is a numbered suite at 615 Main St in Niagara Falls, New York, which looks like a parcel-receiving mailbox rather than staff. No headcount is published and LinkedIn could not be checked.

Inputs

37.0 inferred

CA 40% · other 30% · US 30%

The hoodie fleece is described as locally sourced, but the cooling t-shirts, socks, bandanas, and towels use unnamed proprietary polyester and nylon thermoregulating yarns with patented cooling technology, and the chill tube is made with CoolMax Plus, a US-owned fibre brand, so most of the performance fabric is probably imported from the US or Asia. The split is an estimate; the vendor names no mill or fabric origin, and the store runs on self-hosted WordPress and WooCommerce rather than a third-party marketplace.

  • Technology - vendor_statement “made with CoolMax Plus to guarantee a cool experience”
  • Running Socks - White - vendor_statement “80% polyester, 16% nylon, 4% Spandex Thermoregulating fibres”
  • Men's Cooling T-Shirt - Gray - vendor_statement “Thermocline Technology – no chemical treatments to wear off, technology is inherent in the fabric”

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