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Agawa

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

BOREAL folding bow saws, the ADK26 axe, and Carbontrail cook kits, designed and assembled in Ontario, sold direct and through MEC.

Mississauga, ON CA · agawagear.ca

86.4
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A small Mississauga, Ontario outdoor gear maker best known for the Kickstarter-funded BOREAL folding bow saw, assembled in Ontario with Swedish steel blades and one US-forged axe head component, sold direct and through MEC.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Agawa Canyon Inc.'s own about page describes a garage startup launched in 2014 and funded through Kickstarter, with no mention of outside investors or a parent company, and madeinca.ca's directory entry also calls it a Canadian-owned business. The federal Corporations Canada registry returned zero results for the name, which usually means an Ontario provincial incorporation; the Ontario Business Registry itself was not checked.

Manufacturing

81.0 reported

CA 70% · EU 25% · US 5%

The vendor's FAQ states the BOREAL folding bow saws are designed and assembled in Canada with some global components, the sheaths are hand made in Canada, and the aggressive blade is made in Canada from Swedish bandsaw steel, while the all-purpose, dry, and hunter blades are made in Sweden. The ADK26 axe head is drop forged in Ohio, USA and finished in Ontario. The split below weights the flagship saw line toward Canada and is an estimate, not a published revenue figure; a madeinca.ca listing separately names Uxbridge, Ontario as the manufacturing site, which does not match the Mississauga address on the vendor's current site and was not independently verified.

  • FAQ · the vendor's own site “The BOREAL folding bow saws are designed and assembled in Canada with some global components.”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The about, contact, and terms of service pages consistently name a single office at 3055 Lenworth Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, with no other location or headcount mentioned.

  • Contact Us · the vendor's own site “3055 Lenworth Dr. Unit 5 Mississauga, Ontario L4X2P3 Canada”
  • Terms of Service · the vendor's own site “operated by Agawa Canyon Inc.”

Inputs

47.5 reported

CA 25% · EU 50% · other 10% · US 15%

The saws depend on Swedish steel even for the Canada-made aggressive blade, and the ADK26 axe head is drop forged 5160 steel in Ohio. The site does not state the origin of the nylon handle, fibreglass reinforcement, or sheath leather, so those shares are inferred rather than vendor-stated.

  • FAQ · the vendor's own site “The aggressive blade is Made in Canada from high carbon Swedish bandsaw steel.”

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