Terri Windover
Made in Canada?
In face of this trade war that shows no sign of slowing down I have started compiling a list of products made in Canada. Please understand that not every company on this list is 100% all Canadian ingredients ALL the time, BUT they are better than the alternatives out there in general.

Food labels explained:
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, a “Product of Canada” label means that all, or nearly all, of the food, processing and labour used to make the food is Canadian. These foods were:
1. grown or raised by Canadian farmers 2. prepared and packaged by Canadian food companies. Note that a food can still be labeled “Product of Canada” if it contains small amounts of imported food, such as spices, food additives, vitamins, and flavourings. Made in Canada from domestic and imported ingredients on a food label mean that:
1. a Canadian company was involved in some of the preparation of the food and, 2. it contains some food grown by Canadian farmers, and some food that’s been imported. Made in Canada from imported ingredients on a food label means that:
1. a Canadian company was involved in some of the preparation of the food; and 2. the contents of the food were imported.
A Maple Leaf on the Label often is a decoration more than an origin stamp. Check the “Made in” status. Local: This recognizes “local” as food produced in the province or territory in which it is sold, or food sold across provincial borders within 50 km of the originating province or territory
Let’s go shopping!
Westholme Canadian Tea – Vancouver Island
Cherry juice from Dwarf Sour
Concentrated cherry juice from Cherry Lane in Niagara
Apple cider and Cranberry Juices –by Terra Beata
Sake – Osake Fraser Valley Junmai – Renaissance
VQA Wines / Wines of Nova Scotia
Edamame Beans - MacKellar Farms/Ontario
Hemp hearts and hemp oil – Manitoba Harvest & Mettrum Originals in Ontario
Flax – milled or whole & flax oil — 99% of the flax sold in Canada is from our farms
Wild rice & wild rice flour – primarily from Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario
Quinoa both golden and black – Ontario (Katan Kitchens / Quinta Quinoa) Saskatchewan (Canadian Quinoa) and B.C (Fieldstone Organics)
Pingue’s prosciutto – Niagara
Canadian Pork – check the labeling as there’s a good deal of cheap American pork on our market.
Maple Leaf Canadian Craft™ -pretty much all their products!
Poultry & Eggs– Because chicken and turkey are ‘supply managed’ the chances are that most of it is Canadian. It must be labeled
Foie Gras – Quebec-produced – Rougie / Canard Goulu / Le Canardises
Kokanee salmon –B.C.
Hardy Boys candied salmon nuggets – from northern Vancouver Island
St Jean’s canned wild Pacific salmon from Nanaimo, B.C.
Newfoundland fresh cod
ANYTHING recommended by Oceanwise!
Oysters – Fanny Bay, Raspberry Point, Colville Bay, Bras d’Or, Kushi, Qualicum…and many others
Ice Cream – Look for the Dairy Farmers Quality Milk symbol
Carnation Milk
Eagle Brand Condensed Milk
Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar Cheese from PEI
Goudas…Old Growler, an aged Gouda from Nova Scotia, Sylvan Star Gouda from Alberta and Glasgow Glen from P.E.I.
Gunn’s Hill cheeses
Farmhouse Natural Cheeses in the Fraser Valley of B.C
Apple Cider Vinegar – Reinhart’s unfiltered & unpasteurized
Filsinger’s Organic Cider Vinegar – Ayton, Ontario
Venturi-Schulze Balsamic, Vancouver Island make the only authentic balsamic in Canada
Spinnakers malt vinegar – Victoria, B.C.
Honey – 100% Canadian – watch the labeling some, particularly no name varieties are from off shore
Big Leaf maple syrup from B.C.
Granulated Sugar – Rogers/Lantic in Alberta
Canadian-made dry pastas – Catelli, Primo, Italipasta
Oak Manor Farms: Rye, Flours, Barley, Spelt, Corn, Cornmeal, Millet, Flax
Robin Hood and Five Roses Flours
Fleishmann’s Yeast – been made in Montreal for decades
Oats….Quaker( large flake / quick / steel cut ) Rogers and Oak Manor Farms
Salt- Windsor and Sifto
Canned tomatoes – Aylmer & Unico brands
Ketchup - Primo
Potato Chips - Lay’s, Old Dutch, Old Yorke
Our Fabulous Craft Beers:
Ontario Craft Brewers has over 70 members and growing!
British Columbia Craft Brewers Guild is an association of nearly 90 independent members who are 100% B.C. owned!
Quebec has had a dynamic brewing industry for decades.
Nova Scotia’s brewers have banded together to form the Craft Brewers Association of Nova Scotia
i hope this helps you choose Canadian as we present a united front in this “war”.