Les Brasseurs du Nord (Boreale)

The vendor's own timeline says the founders handed the company to the Fonds de solidarité FTQ in 2013, and La Presse, the Journal de Montréal, and HRImag report the Fonds as majority shareholder with Laura Urtnowski and Sébastien Paradis holding minority stakes; all three owners are in Quebec. Corporations Canada returned zero results, so Les Brasseurs du Nord Inc. is likely a Quebec corporation, and the Registraire des entreprises du Québec could not be checked.

• La brasserie | Boréale vendor_statement “Après plus de 25 ans dans le domaine brassicole, les fondateurs de Boréale cèdent leur place au Fonds de solidarité FTQ.”
• Conditions d'utilisation | Boréale vendor_statement “Bienvenue sur le site web de LES BRASSEURS DU NORD INC. («Boréale»)”
• Sébastien Paradis, PDG, Les Brasseurs du Nord - La Presse+ press “Le Fonds de solidarité en est devenu l’actionnaire majoritaire, et seuls l’ex-PDG Laura Urtnowski et Sébastien Paradis ont une participation très minoritaire dans la propriété de l’entreprise.”
• Profiter de la pandémie pour déployer ses ailes | JDM press “Aujourd’hui, l’entreprise est la propriété du Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec qui l’a rachetée en 2013, de son PDG Sébastien Paradis, et de Laura Urtnowski, cofondatrice de l’entreprise.”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”

Boréale has been brewed at the company's own brewery in Blainville since it moved there from Saint-Jérôme in 1994, at about 100,000 hectolitres a year according to HRImag. The Sober Carpenter non-alcoholic line, one of the company's six brands, is brewed in Ontario, so all production stays in Canada.

• La brasserie | Boréale vendor_statement “Ils quittent Saint-Jérôme pour emménager à Blainville et ainsi, augmenter leur production.”
• Boréale/Brasseurs du Nord : Les ambitions d’un fringant trentenaire - HRImag press “Nous tournons autour des 100 000, 110 000 hectolitres.”
• FAQs vendor_statement “Sober Carpenter is based in Blainville, Quebec, and our beers are brewed in Ontario, Canada.”

Head office, brewery, and the Relais Boréale shop are at one Blainville address, with a second Relais brewpub in Montreal, and careers pages hire for the Blainville site. The Journal de Montréal reported about 160 employees in 2021.

• Contact | Boréale vendor_statement “875, boulevard Michèle Bohec Blainville, QC J7C 5J6”
• Carrières | Boréale vendor_statement “Notre microbrasserie de Blainville occupe un point central sur la Rive-Nord de Montréal.”
• Profiter de la pandémie pour déployer ses ailes | JDM press “L’entreprise, qui compte aujourd’hui quelque 160 employés, refuse de dévoiler ses ventes.”

The vendor states its beers are 100 percent malted barley but does not say where the malt or hops come from, so the split is an estimate that assumes mostly Canadian malt, a large US share for hops in the IPA and pale ale lines, and a small European and other share for specialty malts and packaging. Contract brewing of Sober Carpenter in Ontario keeps that input Canadian. The online shop runs on Shopify.

• The brewery | Boréale vendor_statement “Our beers are 100% pure malt, which means they’re made exclusively from malted barley.”
• Terms of service vendor_statement “Boréale - Hors Sentiers is powered by Shopify”