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Paperole

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Montreal publishing house and boutique in the Plateau, active since 2013, designing and distributing greeting cards, art prints, postcards, notebooks, and other goods illustrated by Quebec, Canadian, and international artists.

Montreal, QC CA · www.paperole.com

Independent Montreal card and stationery publisher operating one Plateau Mont-Royal boutique since 2013, working with Quebec, other Canadian, and international illustrators. No parent company, acquisition, or manufacturing location is disclosed anywhere on its own site.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Paperole describes itself only as a Montreal publishing house and gallery-boutique active since 2013, with no parent, investor, or acquisition mentioned anywhere on its site. Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results for "Paperole", consistent with a Quebec provincial registration; the Registraire des entreprises du Quebec is bot-walled to fetches so the registration itself could not be checked directly.

Manufacturing

64.5 inferred

CA 60% · EU 5% · other 25% · US 10%

No page (about, contact, shipping/returns, wholesale, or job postings) names a printer, factory, or production location for the cards, prints, postcards, notebooks, or apparel; Paperole says only that it "designs and distributes" collections with artists. This mix is an estimate: small Quebec card publishers typically print paper goods locally or elsewhere in Canada, while apparel and accessories in the same catalogue are more often produced outside Canada; nothing on the site confirms either.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Paperole runs a single boutique plus the adjoining Pari Passu craft space, both at 470 Duluth East in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal, and its open job postings (boutique manager, sales associate, Pari Passu sales and mediation roles, full-time distribution coordinator) are all on-site Montreal positions.

  • Job offers | Paperole · the vendor's own site “flagship retail shop at 470 Avenue Duluth East in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood”
  • Pari Passu | Paperole · the vendor's own site “PARI PASSU operates as part of the Paperole organization and is directly connected to the Paperole boutique via an interior passage”

Inputs

53.0 inferred

CA 50% · EU 10% · other 20% · US 20%

No page discloses where paper stock or other materials come from. The storefront platform, Shopify, is headquartered in Ottawa, which weighs the platform-dependence share toward Canada; the rest of this mix is an estimate reflecting a likely blend of domestic and imported paper and blank goods, since nothing on the site names a supplier.

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