Hennessy Hammock
Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in British Columbia
Camping hammock tents, tarps, rainflies and insulation, sold direct from Galiano Island, BC since 1999.
Galiano Island, BC CA · hennessyhammock.com
Hennessy Hammock is a family-run maker of hammock tents, tarps and insulation, founded by Tom Hennessy in 1999 and still incorporated and run from Galiano Island, British Columbia. It sells direct worldwide, shipping to customers from its own BC warehouse plus regional warehouses in Washington state, the UK, the Netherlands and Australia, but no page names where the hammocks themselves are manufactured. No parent company, acquisition, or outside investor turned up in registry or press searches.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 verifiedCA 100%
BC Corporate Registry data, via BC OrgBook, confirms Hennessy Hammock Ltd. as an active British Columbia company (BC0578710) registered January 21, 1999, matching the number the vendor's own terms of service page cites for itself. The company is run by the founding Hennessy family (Tom, Ann and James Hennessy); Corporations Canada's federal registry returns zero results for the name, consistent with a provincial rather than federal incorporation, and no acquisition, outside investor, or foreign parent appears in press or Wikidata searches.
- BC OrgBook search: Hennessy Hammock · registry record “"source_id": "BC0578710" ... "text": "HENNESSY HAMMOCK LTD." ... "registration_date", "format": "datetime", "value": "1999-01-21T08:00:00+00:00" ... "entity_status", "format": "category", "value": "ACT"”
- Terms of service – Hennessy Hammock · the vendor's own site “Hennessy Hammock Ltd: BC0578710”
- Federal corporation search: Hennessy Hammock · registry record “0 results were found, 0 returned.”
Manufacturing
20.0 inferredother 100%
No page on the site (About Us, Tom's Story, FAQ, Press Kit, Endorsements, Warranty and Repairs, Corporate Sales, or product pages) names a factory or country of manufacture; the only Canadian address given is the Galiano Island office, which the warranty page identifies as a repair and returns point, not a production site. The CANADA List has no entry for the brand and madeinca.ca returns no vendor page either, so this mix is a judgment call toward overseas contract manufacturing rather than a documented figure, and the manufacturing country remains unverified.
- Hennessy Hammock Warranty and Repair Info · the vendor's own site “Hennessy Hammock, 637 Southwind Road, Galiano Island, BC V0N 1P0, CANADA”
- The CANADA List (dataset) · directory
People
92.0 reportedCA 90% · other 10%
The registered office, contact address, and repair facility are all on Galiano Island, BC, and the founding Hennessy family is named as running the company from there. Tom Hennessy's own account, still published on the site, describes setting up a seasonal design studio in Athol, New Zealand in winter 2004; the current site gives no New Zealand address or staff count, so that presence is weighted lightly.
- Contact Us - Get In Touch With Our Team | Hennessy Hammock · the vendor's own site “637 Southwind Road, Galiano Island BC V0N 1P0 Canada”
- Tom's Story - How Our Camping Hammocks Were Made | Hennessy Hammock · the vendor's own site “bought a little cabin in the mountains in a town called Athol near Queenstown, have set up a design studio and have started prototyping”
Inputs
20.0 inferredother 100%
No page discloses a fabric mill, webbing supplier, or hardware source. Technical nylon hammock and rainfly fabrics of the kind Hennessy Hammock uses are predominantly milled and coated in Asia, and that lines up with the unconfirmed but likely overseas manufacturing footprint above, so this split is an estimate rather than a sourced figure.