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Sundog Eyewear

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Alberta

Calgary-based polarized sport and lifestyle sunglasses brand founded in 1983; also the exclusive Canadian distributor for US golf accessory brands including Blue Tees Golf, Black Clover, and Team Golf.

Calgary, AB CA · sundogeyewear.ca

Calgary, Alberta based sunglasses brand founded in 1983 with no identified foreign parent, whose sunglasses are made internationally rather than domestically; it also distributes several US golf accessory brands under its own storefront.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Sundog's own About page describes it as "A Canadian Company" founded in Calgary in 1983, and its privacy/legal page states the site is governed by the laws of Alberta, consistent with a Canadian-controlled business. No parent company, private-equity owner, or acquisition was found in press or Wikidata searches. A federal Corporations Canada search for "Sundog Distributing" and for "Sundog" returned no matching entity (only unrelated companies named Sundog Soul Care, Sundog Properties Inc., Sundog RGS GP Inc.), consistent with a provincial rather than federal incorporation; the Alberta Corporate Registry itself could not be queried directly from this environment, so the exact registered entity and shareholder split are unconfirmed.

Manufacturing

20.0 inferred

other 100%

Sundog's own site does not name a factory or country of manufacture. The madeinca.ca directory entry for Sundog states it "manufactures internationally," i.e. outside Canada; without a more specific country this card allocates the full mix to OTHER as the most likely destination for contract sunglasses manufacturing, but this is an estimate, not a confirmed split between OTHER and EU (e.g. Italian) production.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Sundog's About page identifies it as a Calgary-based company, and the contact page lists support hours in Mountain Standard Time, consistent with a single-site Calgary, Alberta operation. No other office or distribution centre location was found on the vendor's site.

  • About Sundog · the vendor's own site “Sundog Eyewear, a Calgary-based company founded in 1983”
  • Contact · the vendor's own site “9am to 5pm MST”

Inputs

20.0 inferred

other 100%

No vendor statement separates frame and lens material sourcing from where the finished sunglasses are assembled. This card mirrors the manufacturing mix (madeinca.ca's "manufactures internationally") for inputs as well, in the absence of any more specific sourcing information.

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