Equator Coffee Roasters

Equator Coffee Roasters, Inc. is a family business founded by Craig Hall in 1998; his wife Amber Hall joined in 2000 and became a 50% owner alongside Craig in 2011. The vendor's own site states it remains locally owned and operated and describes itself as the only 100% family-owned fair trade organic roaster in the Ottawa Valley. Corporations Canada's federal registry search returned no corporation matching Equator Coffee, consistent with provincial rather than federal incorporation, and the Ontario Business Registry's public search blocked automated access, so a registry could not independently confirm the ownership share.

• Equator Coffee Roasters - Our Story vendor_statement “For the first couple of years, Amber continued in her role as a high school teacher to support the business start up, but joined the business in 2000 and became 50% owner along with Craig in 2011.”
• Equator Coffee, a Family Affair vendor_statement “we also became the only 100% family-owned roaster of 100% fair trade, organic coffee in the Ottawa Valley.”
• Equator Coffee Roasters | Fair Trade Organic Coffee Roaster vendor_statement “100% Canadian Owned Business”
• Coffee: Equator Coffee Roasters 🍁 | Made in CA directory “Canadian Owned: Yes”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”

All roasting and packing happens at Equator's head office and roastery at 451 Ottawa Street in Almonte, Ontario, which also houses a cafe and training centre. The company lists seven locations in total, the Almonte roastery plus six cafes, all in the Ottawa area, with no outside roasting or co-packing facility mentioned anywhere on the site.

• Equator Coffee Roasters - Our Story vendor_statement “Equator has seven locations. Equator "HQ" in Almonte hosts our roastery, café, and training centre.”
• Check-Location vendor_statement “Head Office + Roastery 451 Ottawa Street Almonte, ON K0A 1A0”
• Coffee: Equator Coffee Roasters 🍁 | Made in CA directory “Manufactured In: Almonte, ON”

Equator is headquartered in Almonte, Ontario, and all seven of its locations, the roastery and six cafes, are in the Ottawa area. The site and contact page list only Ontario addresses, with no operations or staff outside Canada mentioned.

• Equator Coffee Roasters - Our Story vendor_statement “In Ottawa, we have six cafés: Westboro, NAC-CNA, Indigo Centrum, Kanata, Indigo Barrhaven, and Indigo Gloucester.”
• Equator Coffee Roasters | Contact Us by Form or Call vendor_statement “451 Ottawa Street Almonte, ON K0A 1A0”

Green coffee cannot be grown in Canada, so every bean Equator roasts is imported. It sources through Cooperative Coffees, a green bean buying co-op, from small farmer cooperatives, with named origins including Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sumatra, and Laos; none of the stated origins are in the US or EU, so the mix goes entirely to OTHER.

• Our Business Impact vendor_statement “We want to create a healthier planet with healthier farmers, families, and communities from Canada to Peru to Ethiopia to Sumatra.”
• Our Business Impact vendor_statement “This coffee was grown in the highland communities of Chiapas, Mexico, by the Triunfo Verde cooperative!”