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Arctic Trading Company

Kelsey Boulevard, Churchill, Manitoba · Canada

Handmade mukluks, mitts and curated First Nations art

What you’ll find

What Arctic Trading Company is known for

Founded in the 1980s by Penny and Keith Rawlings on the Hudson Bay shore, this workshop-store sews native-made mukluks, moose-hide slippers, mitts and gauntlets and stocks furs alongside First Nations artwork gathered from across Canada. Its development loan was structured around Churchill's short tourist season, a measure of how completely the shop runs on the town's polar-bear and beluga calendar.