house hunting
Builders
Canada is home to some of the best, most innovative tiny house manufacturers anywhere
Tiny Homes on Wheels
Prefab makers of CSA Z240 certified units…
- Canadian Tiny Homes (South Slocan, BC)
- Coops, Crappers & Cabins (Cambridge, ON)
- Ethical Tiny Homes (New Westminster, BC)
- Fritz Tiny Homes (Devon, AB)
- KYRAX Homes (Surrey, BC)
- Macey Built Tiny Homes (Edmonton, AB)
- Minimaliste Houses (St-Pierre, QC)
- Mint Tiny House Company (Delta, BC)
- Nelson Tiny Houses (Nelson, BC)
- Rewild Homes (Cobble Hill, BC)
- Rolling Bear Tiny Homes (Surrey, BC)
- Rover Tiny Homes (Chilliwack, BC)
- Statton Rock Simply Living (Abbotsford, BC)
- Summit Building Co. (Armstrong, BC)
- Sunshine Tiny Homes (Sechelt, BC)
- Teacup Tiny Homes (Lethbridge, AB)
- Tiny Healthy Homes (North Vancouver, BC)
- True North Tiny Homes (Hamilton, ON)
For used units, check out the directories at Tiny Homes in Canada and Tiny House Listings. For advice, speak with Lisa at Painted Turtle Tiny House Consulting or Bianca at Giving Tree Consulting.
Tiny Homes on Foundation
Prefab makers of non-trailer units…
- Arctic Acres GeoHome (Portland, ON)
- Avrame (Georgian Bay, ON)
- Aux Box (Parksville, BC)
- The Backcountry Hut Company (Vancouver, BC)
- Blend Projects (Victoria, BC)
- CABN (Toronto, ON)
- Click Modular Homes (Port Mellon, BC)
- Dwelly Prefabs (Maple Ridge, BC)
- Elk Ridge Modular (Coldstream, BC)
- Fritz Tiny Homes (Devon, AB)
- Geoship (Nevada City, CA, USA)
- Good Way Homes (Revelstoke, BC)
- Hewing Haus (Chilliwack, BC)
- Honomobo (Edmonton, AB)
- Kyllo Homes (Sicamous, BC)
- KYRAX Homes (Surrey, BC)
- Lloyoll Prefabs (Brooklyn, NS)
- Lofty Pods (Ste-Agathe, QC)
- Minimaliste Houses (St-Pierre, QC)
- Mint Tiny House Company (Delta, BC)
- Modern Modular (Nisku, AB)
- Nomad Micro Homes (Vancouver, BC)
- Orca (Courtenay, BC)
- Pocket House (Onoway, AB)
- Rocky Mountain Prefabs (Red Deer, AB)
- Rohe Homes (Vancouver, BC)
- Summit Building Co. (Armstrong, BC)
- Teacup Tiny Homes (Lethbridge, AB)
- TinyBox (Toronto, ON)
- Urban Outbuildings (Leduc, AB)
Kyllo offers this helpful article outlining the Z240 and A277 specifications.
Links here don’t indicate endorsement. Do your own due diligence on builders.
inspiration seeking
Media
From books to Youtube channels, there’s no shortage of inspiration to be found
Channels
Podcasts
Books
- Beginner's Guide to Tiny Houses
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- Building Your Permaculture Property
- Cabin Porn
- Creating a Life Together
- Doughnut Economics
- Finding Lights in a Dark Age
- Folks, This Ain't Normal
- The Geography of Hope
- Getting to Maybe
- How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It
- Plants of the Inland NW & Southern Interior BC
- Presence
- Pocket Neighborhoods
- Remote
- The Remote Work Era
- Sacred Economics
- Shop Class as Soulcraft
- Streams of Consequence
- The Wayfinders
Documentaries
random learning
Tangents
Learn a few random things and scout out various other housing projects around the province
Curiosity
- Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment
- Arrow Slocan Tourism
- Bear Savvy Canada
- BC Co-op Association
- Canadian Cohousing Network
- Cascade Institute
- Cascadia Department of Bioregion
- Cherry Holistic
- Chris Outdoors
- Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network
- Gaia Sophia Permaculture
- Foundation for Intentional Community
- Permaculture Apprentice
- Plant the Village
- Slocan Lake Green Burial Society
- SlocanValley.com
- Sociocracy For All
- Tiny Home Builders Association
- Upper Columbia Cooperative Council
- West Kootenay Climate Hub
- Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning
- Young Agrarians
- 5th World
Alternatives
There’s a flavour of community for everyone…
- Abundance Community Farm (Agassiz, BC)
- Amethyst Eco-village (Blewitt, BC)
- Bear Spring Eco Retreat (Beasley, BC)
- Blueberry Commons (Powell River, BC)
- Bluegrass Meadows Micro Village (Terrace, BC)
- Creekside Commons (Courtenay, BC)
- Future Thinkers Smart Village (Kamloops, BC)
- Future Villages (Cooper Creek, BC)
- Groundswell at Yarrow Ecovillage (Chilliwack, BC)
- Hearthstone Village (Powell River, BC)
- Melody Place Farm (Metcalfe, ON)
- O.U.R. Ecovillage (Shawnigan Lake, BC)
- Queen's Bay Resort (Balfour, BC)
- Rooted Northwest (Arlington, WA)
- Snow Valley Lodging (Fernie, BC)
- Valhalla Pines Campground (Winlaw, BC)
- Wandering Coyote (Kaleden, BC)
Also, check out TinyConnect, Rewild Homes’ BC Land Listings, the Canadian Cohousing Network’s directory of communities, and Cynthia Tina’s CommunityFinders.
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Permaculture-inspired swag, designed by yours truly
