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Hillsound Equipment

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in British Columbia

Vancouver, BC maker of trail crampons, gaiters, camp furniture and packing accessories, designed in BC since 2007 and sold direct plus through Amazon.

Vancouver, BC CA · hillsound.ca

Vancouver, BC crampon, gaiter and camp-gear brand trading since 2007, marketed as Canadian-owned and headquartered in Vancouver, with no disclosed country of manufacture.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The site's navigation and footer carry a persistent "Proudly Canadian-Owned" tag and the company story, contact and privacy pages all point to a single Vancouver office with no mention of outside investors or a parent company. A federal Corporations Canada search for "Hillsound" returned zero results, consistent with a BC provincial incorporation rather than a federal one; the BC Registry itself is JS-rendered and was not reachable by direct fetch, so the ownership structure below the vendor's own claim is unconfirmed.

Manufacturing

20.0 inferred

other 100%

No page on the vendor's site (story, product-technology, sustainability, product listings) states a country of manufacture. The Trail Crampon's product page notes it is "Patented in the U.S, Europe, & Korea" and describes heat-treated carbon-steel spikes and stainless-steel chains, which points at Asian metal-hardgoods production of the kind small Canadian outdoor brands typically contract out rather than run domestically, but that is an inference, not a stated fact. madeinca.ca and The CANADA List carry no entry for the brand to corroborate either way.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The company's only listed address, phone lines and office hours (8am-5:30pm PST) are all Vancouver, BC, and the site names no other office or design studio.

Inputs

20.0 inferred

other 100%

Specs for the Trail Crampon list carbon-steel spikes and plates, stainless-steel chains and an elastomer harness; none of these are sourced by the site, so this mix follows the same overseas-manufacturing inference as the manufacturing factor rather than a separate material disclosure.

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