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ATUK Tents

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Sole-proprietor Quebec workshop run by Guy Hébert, hand-sewing prospector and hot-canvas tents, anoraks, and wood stoves since 1996 and selling direct by email order only.

Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, QC CA · www.atuktents.com

ATUK is a one-person Quebec workshop, run by trapper and craftsman Guy Hébert since 1996, that hand-sews cotton canvas prospector and hot tents, anoraks, and wood stoves and sells only by direct email order.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The contact page names the business as "Atuk / Guy Hébert" at a Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Quebec home address, and the home page's own story credits Guy Hébert, a trapper and craftsman, as the founder and namesake. A federal Corporations Canada search for "Atuk" returned zero results, consistent with an unincorporated sole proprietorship registered provincially; the Registraire des entreprises du Québec is bot-walled to fetch and could not be checked, and the business does not appear in the CANADA List feed.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Every product page repeats that the tents are hand made in Canada, the stoves say "made here in Quebec - Canada and exclusively by Atuk," and the anorak page says the anoraks are made by hand in the Saint-Élie-de-Caxton workshop. This is a single-site, one-craftsman operation with no evidence of any outside contract manufacturing.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The only address, phone number, and workshop the site names are Guy Hébert's home base in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Quebec; nothing suggests staff or premises outside that single site.

Inputs

21.0 inferred

CA 20% · other 50% · US 30%

The tents are sewn from 7 oz or 10 oz cotton army-duck canvas treated with "Sunforger," described as an exclusive weave made "for" Atuk to its specification, and the anoraks use a 35% cotton / 65% polyester military ripstop blend; the site never names the mill, treater, or country for either fabric, or for the stoves' steel and glass. Sunforger is a long-standing canvas treatment historically associated with American duck-canvas mills, so this card assumes the base cloth and technical textiles are largely imported rather than woven in Canada, but that split is this card's estimate, not a published figure, and no registry or supplier record could confirm it.

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