“Made in Canada” and qualifier labels

Some packages may include qualifiers to ensure that the consumer knows some ingredients were imported from other countries.

Examples of qualifiers can include:

  • Distilled in Canada
  • Refined in Canada
  • Packaged in Canada
  • Processed in Canada

Look for 100% claims

All ingredients, processing and labor for the product (and all of its components) are from Canada.

If you’re someone choosing to shop consciously given the tariffs, we’ve gathered a helpful list of Canadian brands and those manufactured in Canada to help you on your next grocery shop.

Canadian-made grocery store items:

Dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, butter etc.)

Instead of brands like Kraft and Land o’ Lakes, you may want to try:

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  • ADL
  • Agropur
  • Arla’s Foods
  • Black Diamond
  • Blakwell Dairy
  • Bothwell Cheese
  • Chapman’s
  • Daiya
  • Eagle Brand
  • Earth’s Own
  • D. Dutchmen Farms
  • La Fromagerie Kapuskoise
  • Gay Lea
  • Grass Root Dairies
  • Hewitt’s
  • Laiterie de Caoticook
  • Lactancia
  • Kawartha Dairy
  • Keenan Farms
  • Miller’s Dairy
  • Natrel
  • Saputo
  • Shaw Ice Cream
  • Sheldon Creek Dairy
  • Silani Cheese
  • Slate River Dairy
  • Skotidakis
  • St. Albert Cheese Factory
  • Tre Stelle
  • Triple “A” Cheese
  • Thunder Oak Cheese Farm
  • Upper Canada Creamery
  • Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese
  • Dainty
  • Baking & honey
  • Instead of brands like Pillsbury and Domino, you may want to try:
  • Billy Bee Honey
  • Club House
  • Doyon Honey
  • E.D. Smith Jam
  • Ferrero
  • Five Roses Flour
  • No Name
  • Redpath Sugar
  • Robin Hood Flour
  • Shiriff
  • Dr. Oetker
  • Wine, beer & spirits
  • Instead of brands like Coors or Makers Mark, you may want to try:
  • 13th Street
  • Canadian Club
  • Collective Arts
  • Creemore Springs
  • Crown Royal
  • Dillon’s
  • Forty Creek
  • Georgian Bay
  • Labatt Blue
  • Molson Canadian
  • Moosehead
  • Redstone
  • Tawse
  • Bread, grains and cereals:
  • Instead of brands like Kellogg’s, Nature’s Own and Dave’s Killer Bread, you may want to try:
  • Arva Flour Mills
  • Casa Mendoza
  • Country Harvest
  • D’Italiano
  • Dempsters (manufactured in Canada)
  • Gadoua
  • Goh Goh Cereal
  • Holy Crap Cereal
  • K2 Milling
  • La Milanaise
  • Little Northern Bakehouse
  • NorQuin
  • Nature’s Path
  • O’Doughs
  • One Degree Organics
  • Rogers
  • Sunny Boy Foods
  • Sunny Crunch Foods
  • Stone Mill Bakehouse
  • Yumi Organics
  • Wonder (manufactured in Canada)
  • Note: Wonder manufactures products in Canada, but is not a Canadian company.
  • Meats & poultry
  • Instead of brands like Oscar Meyer, Hormel or Tyson Foods, you may want to try:
  • Direct Plus Food Group: Grimm’s Fine Foods, McSweeney’s, Country Prime Meats, Saporé Foods, and Audrey’s Patisserie
  • Freybye
  • Greenfield Nautural Meat Co.
  • Harvest Meats
  • Lou’s Kitchen
  • Maple Leaf Foods
  • Sofina Foods: Janes, Lilydale, Mastro, San Daniele, Riserva, Cuddy, Vienna, Fletcher’s, Zamzam
  • Tony’s Meats
  • Snack foods, cookies, chips & popcorn
  • Instead of brand’s like Nabisco, Lays or Doritos, you may want to try:
  • Camino Chocolate
  • Celebration Cookies
  • Krack-O-Pop
  • Dare Foods
  • Ganong Chocolates
  • Georgian Bay Granola Company
  • Hardbite
  • Hawkins Cheezies
  • Hummingbird Chocolate
  • Inno Foods
  • Johnvince FoodsP
  • Kerrs Canady
  • La Cocina Tortilla Chips
  • La Montagne Chocolates
  • Lady Sarah Cookies
  • Laura Secord Chocolates
  • Leclerc
  • Made Good Foods
  • Maple Leaf CookiesA
  • MDR
  • Nomz
  • Old Dutch
  • OMG!
  • Peace by Chocolate
  • Purdy’s Chocolate
  • Ronnie’s Original Jumbo Seeds
  • Ross Chocolates
  • Skippy’s Kettlecorn
  • Sun-Rype
  • Uncle Bob’s Popcorn
  • Voortman
  • Zak Organics Food
  • Condiments & seasoning
  • Instead of brands like Hidden Valley and Tobasco, you may want to try:
  • Buster Rhino BBQ Sauce
  • French’s Mustard
  • Fire in the Kitchen
  • Greetalia Foods
  • GoBio! Organics
  • Heartbeat Hot Sauce
  • Kozlik’s Canadian Mustard
  • Kraft Heinz Canada (manufactured in Canada)
  • Little Creek (Salad Dressings)
  • PEI Sea Salt Co.
  • Peppermaster Hot Sauces
  • Renées
  • Silk Road Spices
  • Spice of Life Selections
  • The Ketchup Project
  • Vancouver Sea Salt
  • Windsor Salt
  • Coffee
  • Instead of brands like Starbucks or Folgers, you may want to try: Balzac’s Coffee Roasters
  • Bean North Roasting
  • Beaver Rock Roastery
  • Coastal Coffee Company
  • Fratello Coffee Roasters
  • Grounded Coffee Company
  • Jumping Bean Coffee
  • Just Us Coffee
  • Laughing Whale
  • Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters
  • Muskoka Roastery Coffee Co.
  • Nabob
  • Salt Spring Coffee
  • Salt Spring Coffee
  • Kintore Coffee Co.
  • Van Houtte

We’ve collected a list of Canadian brands for anyone looking to buy more Canadian products on their next grocery run. (Image via Getty Images) (AJ_Watt via Getty Images)

Tea

Instead of brands like Lipton, you may want to try:

  • 3 Teas
  • Amoda Tea
  • Auras Teas
  • Blue Teapot
  • Capital Tea
  • ChaNoir
  • Citizen Tea
  • David’s Tea
  • Distincly Tea
  • Escarpment Gardens
  • Four O’Clock Teas
  • Just Tea
  • Premium Tea
  • Red Rose Tea
  • Shanti Tea
  • Tea Desire
  • Tea Santa
  • Tealchemy
  • Tealish
  • The Naked Leaf
  • The Tea Haus
  • Four O’Clock Teas

Drinks (soft drinks, juices)

Instead of brands like Coca Cola, PepsiCo or Tropicana, you may want to try:

  • Allen’s
  • Apple & Eve
  • Clearly Canadian
  • Canada Dry
  • Del Monte
  • Fairly Fruit
  • Graves
  • Great Value
  • Happy Parent
  • Hydra+
  • Kiju bilogique
  • Naya Bottled Water
  • Northland
  • Oasis
  • Old Orchard
  • Old South
  • PC Cola
  • Rougemont
  • Ruby Kist
  • SunRype
  • Switch
  • The Pop Shoppe
  • Walter Caesar

Note: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have manufacturing facilities in Canada, but are not Canadian brands.

Some Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products are manufactured in Canada, but they are not Canadian brands. (Image via Getty Images) (Remus Kotsell via Getty Images)

Frozen foods:

Instead of brands like Stouffer’s or DiGiorno, you may want to try:

  • Arctic Gardens (manufactured in Canada)
  • Compliments
  • Cavendish Farms
  • Green Giant (manufactured in Canada)
  • Conscious
  • High Liner Goods
  • M&M Foods
  • McCain Foods
  • Nature’s Path
  • President’s Choice

Toilet paper & paper products

Instead of brands like Charmin or Scott, you may want to try:

  • Cascades
  • Cashmere
  • Kirkland
  • Purex
  • Royale

Laundry detergent & dish soap

Instead of brands like Palmolive or Dawn, you may want to try:

  • Tru Earth
  • Nature Clean