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Province of Canada

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Toronto apparel brand selling cotton tees, sweats, knitwear, hats, socks, and totes, all cut and sewn in Canadian factories.

Toronto, ON CA · provinceofcanada.com

92.5

Province of Canada is a Toronto apparel brand founded by a married couple, Julie Brown and Jeremy Watt, that sells direct online and from two Toronto stores and states that every product is designed and manufactured in Canada. The legal entity is not named on the site and no federal corporation matched, so ownership rests on the vendor's own account of a founder-owned business.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The About page describes the company as launched by co-founders Julie and Jeremy, a married couple from Quebec and Ontario, and the blog names Julie Brown as co-founder; nothing on the site or in the CANADA List points to an outside investor or parent. Corporations Canada returned zero results for the name, so it is most likely an Ontario corporation; the site never names the legal entity and the Ontario Business Registry was not checked, so the founder-owned reading is the vendor's own account.

  • About Us – Province of Canada vendor_statement “Julie grew up in a small Québec town and Jeremy in southern Ontario. They shared a love for graphic design and quality textiles, and it wasn't long after getting married that they decided to quit their jobs and launch a Canadian brand”
  • CBC News – The National vendor_statement “Our Co-Founder, Julie Brown sat down with Lyndsay Duncombe to talk about Canadians coming together to support made in Canada.”
  • Corporations Canada federal corporation search registry “Searched for: Corporate name: Province of Canada 0 results were found, 0 returned.”
  • The CANADA List directory “Toronto-based maker of sweats, sweaters, accessories and home goods. All products Made right here in Canada.”

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The site states on every page that all products are made in Canada, the FAQ says everything is designed and manufactured in Canada, and the About page describes working with Canadian factories the founders visit monthly. The baseball hat, sock, tote, and French terry collection pages each repeat the made in Canada claim, and no product on the site is marked imported, so the mix is entirely Canadian on the vendor's word; no factory is named.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The company runs two stores in Toronto, ships every order from Toronto, and posts only Toronto store and warehouse jobs, so the team is in Canada. The vendor gives no headcount.

Inputs

50.0 inferred

CA 50% · other 30% · US 20%

Products are cotton twill, cotton French terry, organic cotton jersey, and wool, and the vendor says only that it uses natural fabrics; it does not name a mill or a cotton source. Canada grows no cotton, so the raw fibre is imported even where knitting, dyeing, printing, and trim happen at Canadian mills, and madeinca.ca reports the brand prioritizes domestic materials; the split is an estimate that credits Canadian fabric conversion and puts the fibre in the US and elsewhere. The storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, so there is no foreign platform dependence.

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