Laurentian Chief

The vendor's site describes Laurentian Chief throughout as a brand of the Eugène Cloutier company, founded in 1945 in Saint-Émile, Quebec, with three generations of artisans continuing the craft; its own page titles and schema markup name the operating entity Laurentian Chief Inc. No acquisition, foreign parent, or outside investor turned up in searches. The Registraire des entreprises du Québec returned a 403 to automated access, so the exact legal name and shareholders could not be confirmed against the registry.

• Notre histoire | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Notre entreprise Eugène Cloutier fabrique des mocassins, des pantoufles et des mukluks depuis 1945. Trois générations d'artisans ont perfectionné leur expertise”
• À propos | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Une marque de l'entreprise Eugène Cloutier”
• Boots and Moccasins: Laurentian Chief 🍁 | Made in CA directory “has been synonymous with premium handcrafted moccasins and boots since 1945 when it was founded by Eugène Cloutier in Saint-Émile, Quebec”

The vendor states products are entirely made in Quebec City, with about eighty workers at the factory or working from home on some finishing, a claim repeated on its history, about, and materials pages and echoed on individual product pages. madeinca.ca corroborates manufacturing in Quebec since 1945.

• Notre histoire | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Eugène Cloutier est établi dans la Ville de Québec. Nous employons environ quatre-vingts travailleurs à l'usine ou à domicile pour certaines finitions.”
• Nos Matériaux | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “100% fabriqué au Canada - Depuis 1945 - Fabrication”
• Mocassins, Semelle Intérieure Appliqué sur Empeigne Cuir, Semelle Crepex Noir | mocassins, Homme | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Produit artisanal fabriqué au Canada par Laurentian Chief.”
• Boots and Moccasins: Laurentian Chief 🍁 | Made in CA directory “has been synonymous with premium handcrafted moccasins and boots since 1945”

The vendor's contact page gives a single address, 1659 rue des Roselins in Quebec City, and the history page says the roughly eighty person workforce is at that factory or works from home on finishing. No second site, office, or distribution centre is disclosed anywhere on the site.

• Nous contacter | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “1659 rue des Roselins Ville de Québec, Québec, Canada G3E 1G2”
• Notre histoire | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Nous employons environ quatre-vingts travailleurs à l'usine ou à domicile pour certaines finitions.”

The materials page lists suede, cowhide, specialty leathers, moose, elk, and deer hide, rabbit fur, and faux fur, and the about page says the hides and furs used 'respect eco-responsible practices,' but neither names a country of origin. With no Canadian tannery or domestic sourcing claimed, the split assumes most raw hides and leather are imported, as is typical for the Canadian footwear trade, with a small Canadian share for wild game hides that could plausibly be domestic; this is an estimate, not a disclosed figure.

• Nos Matériaux | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Suède Cuir Peau de vache Cuirs de spécialité Peau d'orignal Peau d'élan Peau de chevreuil Fourrure de lapin Fausse fourrure”
• À propos | Laurentian Chief Inc. vendor_statement “Les peaux et les fourrures utilisées pour fabriquer les chaussures Laurentian Chief respectent des pratiques écoresponsables.”