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My favorite ✨Local BC✨ small businesses and people that I fully support 👏♥️
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items Showcasing the local businesses and professionals who make my local communities shine ✨♥️❤️🥳👏
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Photographers
Other ones that don’t fit in with the other sections 🤷♀️
Farmers Markets and Local Artisans Markets
Vancouver Island favorite haunts to search 🥰♥️❤️
Photographers
I know these people and I guarantee they are absolutely worth every single dollar 👏👏👏❤️♥️
I met Jun and his wife like a decade ago. He was in computer science with my best friend, but he always said his passion is photography.
These two are internationally recognized and are award winners.
They pour all their passion into their work and t...
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I’ve known Jocelyn since she was one of my Nursing instructors when I was in nursing college.
Not only is she incredibly knowledgeable about baby and maternal health- she takes the time to get to know you to bring out the very best in your photos. ♥️...
Jocelyn Isaak Photography
Shandness is so incredible and her passion for dog photography shines above all others as evidenced in her photography 🥰🐕🐕🦺🐾🐩
Her work has won multiple awards 🏆🥇🏅
Shand and Your Dogs Photography
Other ones that don’t fit in with the other sections 🤷♀️
These are all the other ones that I patronize that I feel really deserve the love for all the hard work that they do 🤗❤️🥳
My Sister's Closet is a social enterprise of Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS). As advocates of zero waste, eco-fashion and the thrift movement, we enable all genders to access beautiful new and second-hand clothing and locally made artisan cr...
My Sister's Closet
A community co-operative where people can borrow tools for home repair, gardening, and building; supports local community projects.
The Vancouver Tool Library
A long-running, volunteer-run independent bookstore and resource centre on Commercial Drive, with a focus on radical, political, and community literature.
Home
Premium local bicycle shop oriented toward road, gravel, and performance cycling. Offers expert service, gear, and community rides.
Bici | Bike Shop and Service Centre
For all those that love fabric, cosplaying and all that fun! A massive independent fabric/ sewing-supply store (3 floors!), beloved by local makers, costumers, hobby sewists — long-running family business (since 1961).
Dressew Supply
A cozy, nostalgic stationery + gift shop — with greeting cards, handmade books/zines, vintage-style items, plus a little reading room and a “Letter Writing Club.”
The Regional Assembly of Text
Vancouver (Main St between E 48th–E 51st) — Historic and culturally rich strip of South Asian-owned shops: sari boutiques, jewelry, fabrics, sweets, groceries.
Punjabi Market Little India - Vancouver Shopping Districts
A queer-owned, long-standing independent bookshop + art store; carries LGBTQ-themed books, art pieces, and more — very unique niche local shop.
Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium
A well-curated independent shop for modern + vintage-inspired furniture, home décor and accessories — ideal for design-forward, local-first interior shopping.
Parliament Interiors
✨Nardwuar fans!!!✨he is famously associated with Neptoon Records in Vancouver, BC, where he conducts his interviews. The store is owned by Rob Frith and his son Ben Frith.
Nardwuar uses the store's interview room and often films his interviews there...
Neptoon Records
A cooperative that provides 100% BC-grown, certified organic seeds. This place is so cool 👏🥰 🌱🪴🫛🫚🪻
BC Eco Seed Co-op
It’s a small craft store that has all sorts of knickknacks to make all sorts of projects 🥰 and for really great prices 🤗
Urban Source
Farmers Markets and Local Artisans Markets
These are the best Farmers markets and artisans markets in the Metro Vancouver British Columbia 🥰❤️♥️
Gagan Singh runs a Blueberry farm in Abbotsford BC. He runs Instaberry a way for him and fellow farmers to sell as much as their fruit and produce for sustainable prices that helps support local farmers. He works with Potatoe Ty
We attend every year...
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Ty is a Surrey BC farmer who runs an annual “Ugly Potatoe day” where people can come and fill bags of “ugly produce” that are perfectly fine to eat but not sell in a store - for FREE. It’s amazing, we have scored great fruit and veggies at this. Love...
Ugly Potato Day
The Trout lake Farmers market is always a great place for the smaller creators to bring their veggies, fruits and homemade wares.
Trout Lake Farmers Market
A cooperative of 130+ BC artists. Their Granville Island store (Net Loft) showcases handcrafted work: clay, glass, metal, wood, fibre, etc.
Circle Craft Co-Op
shop carrying Fraser-Valley / BC-made merch and useful for local-goods shopping. > “Pressland General in Mission told me … they are phasing out their American products and finding Canadian alternatives.”
Pressland General
Vancouver Island favorite haunts to search 🥰♥️❤️
Vancouver island is its own special place of unique small businesses 👏🥰
This is my favorite antique mall on Vancouver island and I spend hours in here everytime I visit 😂😂😂
Antiques Post Office Mall
The Old Country Market YES each year from May to October they invite a group of goats to make their home atop the roof; entertaining both locals and visitors from all over!
It’s also a quirky gift shop/deli/restaurant/grocery store. The cozy log buil...
Old Country Market - Goats on Roof