Detour Coffee Roasters

The vendor's own site names Kaelin McCowan as founder of Detour, which started in a back alleyway in Dundas, Ontario in 2009, and nothing on the site, its wholesale program, or its careers page mentions a parent company, acquisition, or outside investor. Corporations Canada's federal search and the Ontario Business Registry both blocked automated queries with a bot check, so this rests on the vendor's own statement rather than an independently confirmed registry filing.

• Our Story vendor_statement “Our founder, Kaelin McCowan, believed that if he sourced and secured the highest quality green coffees”
• Canadian Made Coffee & More - Made In Canada Directory directory “Detour Coffee Dundas, ON”

Detour roasts all of its coffee in small batches on a Loring roaster and packs orders at what its own shipping policy calls "the Detour Coffee Roastery and HQ," a single Southern Ontario facility; its wholesale page states every wholesale shipment leaves that roastery within days of roasting. No co-packer or second manufacturing site is mentioned anywhere on the site.

• Our Story vendor_statement “We do all this in small batches on our trusty Loring Coffee Roaster, which uses convection heat to consistently create a clean, sweet, and balanced roast profile”
• Delivery and Shipping vendor_statement “The Detour Coffee Roastery and HQ will be closed for the Holidays from December 23rd to January 4th.”
• Specialty Coffee Wholesale Toronto & Ontario | Detour Coffee vendor_statement “Every wholesale coffee shipment leaves our roastery in Southern Ontario within days of roasting”

Detour's only disclosed locations are its roastery and HQ and two cafes, King St. in Dundas and Mechanic St. in Paris, both in Ontario, and its wholesale program describes serving Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, and the rest of Southern Ontario from that single roastery. No other office, warehouse, or facility outside Ontario is mentioned on the site.

• Detour Cafe vendor_statement “King St. Dundas”
• Specialty Coffee Wholesale Toronto & Ontario | Detour Coffee vendor_statement “We've been roasting specialty coffee in Ontario for 15+ years, and we work with cafés, restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, and corporate offices across Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, and the rest of Southern Ontario.”

Green coffee cannot be grown in Canada, so every bean Detour roasts is imported. Its single-origin lineup names named farms and cooperatives in Kenya, Honduras, Mexico, and Bolivia, all in Africa or Latin America, with no origin stated in the US or EU, so the mix goes entirely to OTHER.

• Kenya Karatu vendor_statement “Karatu Coffee Factory is situated in the Central Province, specifically in the Thika District, within the Ndarugu location of Gatundu Division, near Gatundu town.”
• Honduras Don Chepe vendor_statement “Jose Santos Galeas is a first-generation farmer who grows beautiful Paraniemia variety coffee on his small six-hectare farm, Don Chepe, in Los Alpes, Jesús de Otoro, Intibucá, in Honduras.”
• Mexico Ixhuatlán vendor_statement “The field blend community lot from the Ixhuatlán Community represents a collaboration among smallholder farmers, each managing less than 1 hectare in the Ixhuatlán del Café microregion of Veracruz.”