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Ole Originals

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia

East Vancouver t-shirt brand founded in 2008 that hand screen-prints retro Canadian regional and wildlife designs on tees, sweaters, and toques in its Frances Street studio, sold direct and through independent Canadian gift shops.

Vancouver, BC CA · www.oleoriginals.com

75.4

Ole Originals Clothing Co. is a small East Vancouver studio that has hand-pulled retro Canadian graphic prints on a single-head manual press since 2008, with hats and patches embroidered nearby. The printing is Canadian but the blank garments are unnamed cotton-poly jersey of undisclosed origin, and no owner is named on the site or in a registry that could be reached.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The terms of service name the business as Ole Originals Clothing Co. at a Vancouver address, and the site describes itself as a Canadian t-shirt brand run by the Ole Originals family since 2008, with no investor or parent mentioned. Corporations Canada returned zero results for Ole Originals and Ole Clothing, so this is a provincial or unincorporated business; the BC Registry, OpenCorporates, and LinkedIn could not be checked this session, and Wikipedia, Wikidata, the CANADA List, and madeinca.ca have no entry.

Manufacturing

55.0 inferred

CA 50% · other 40% · US 10%

The vendor states that every print is hand-pulled in its studio at 1420 Frances Street in East Vancouver and that hats and patches are embroidered by friends nearby, so the finishing step is Canadian. The blank tees and sweaters are cut and sewn elsewhere by an unnamed supplier, and only the Signature Line is described as made in collaboration with a Canadian company, so the split credits Canada for the printing and the Signature blanks and assigns the remaining blanks to offshore and US-owned wholesale garment makers as an estimate.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

A single-site business: the contact page gives the studio at 1420 Frances Street in Vancouver with a 604 phone number, and the FAQ and product pages describe the same East Vancouver studio as the only workplace. No headcount or careers page is published and LinkedIn could not be checked.

Inputs

26.0 inferred

CA 20% · other 60% · US 20%

The main input is the blank garment, a pre-laundered 60 percent combed ring-spun cotton and 40 percent polyester heathered jersey whose brand and country of origin the vendor never names; that fabric profile matches imported wholesale blanks from US-owned tee brands, so most of the mix goes to offshore sewing and US brand owners, with a Canadian share for the Signature Line blanks and local embroidery. Ink, toque, and patch sourcing are unstated, and the store runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform. The split is an estimate.

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