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Local Laundry

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Alberta

Calgary apparel brand selling hoodies, crewnecks, t-shirts, sweatpants, toques, and socks that are knit, dyed, cut, and sewn in Canada, with a portion of each sale given to Canadian charities.

Calgary, AB CA · locallaundry.ca

92.5

Local Laundry is a founder-run Calgary apparel company started in 2015 by Connor Curran and Dustin Paisley that sells Canadian-made hoodies, crewnecks, tees, and sweatpants direct from its own store and a Calgary pickup warehouse. Ownership rests on the vendor's own pages and directory listings because the Alberta registry could not be checked, and the vendor names neither its sewing partners nor the origin of its cotton.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The terms of service and shipping pages name the business as Local Laundry Apparel at a Calgary address, the story page says it was founded in 2015 by Connor Curran and Dustin Paisley, and the founder page presents Curran as co-founder still running it from Calgary. Corporations Canada returned zero results, so the entity is presumably an Alberta corporation; the Alberta Corporate Registry, OpenCorporates, and any acquisition or investor press could not be checked this session. The CANADA List gives the owner as Local Laundry Apparel Inc. in Canada and madeinca.ca lists it as Canadian owned, which is directory corroboration only.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The site header, the Canadian-made page, the help centre, the wholesale page, and every product page checked say the garments are knit, dyed, cut, and sewn in Canada with Canadian partners, and the founder page describes the switch to local manufacturing. The help centre says the company does not publish supplier addresses, so no factory or province is confirmed; madeinca.ca says Toronto and Vancouver after a 2018 move of all production to Canada while The CANADA List says Calgary, and both are directories.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The careers page describes a small team in Calgary, the shipping and pickup pages put the warehouse at 1212 34 Ave SE in Calgary, and Global News describes it as a clothing company based in Calgary. No headcount is published and LinkedIn could not be checked.

Inputs

50.0 inferred

CA 50% · other 30% · US 20%

The vendor says its fabric is knit, dyed, and finished in Canada, so the fleece and jersey are Canadian-milled, but product pages give no fibre content or yarn origin and Canada grows no cotton, so the raw cotton and any polyester are imported from the United States or elsewhere. This split is an estimate. The store runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, and the vendor does not name its mills.

  • Why shop Canadian-made? vendor_statement “Every piece is knit into fabric, dyed and finished, then cut and sewn right here in Canada by skilled hands, many with decades of experience at the machine.”
  • Heavyweight Hoodie | Made in Canada by Local Laundry vendor_statement “Each hoodie is carefully made in Canada with the highest quality and ethically produced”
  • Help Centre & FAQs vendor_statement “Our core apparel is proudly made in Canada with Canadian partners.”

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