Not Amazon is a big directory, sorted by category that makes shopping Canadian small businesses easier (and fun, of course). Think of it like walking through a neighbourhood with really great shops but online :)

There is a button at the bottom of every city's main page that says "Submit a Business", you can use the form that pops up for ya there!

Here is what you reaaallly gotta do or else your submission won't be added:The link must start with "https://"The photo submitted CAN NOT: include more than a tiny bit of text, be just the company's logo, be from Google Maps, and lastly - this is most important - it can't be pixelated.I recommend making the image at least 1080px wide. If any of these guidelines aren't followed, unfortunately your listing won't appear on the site and you will have to resubmit.

Ooh, this one is a toughie. Currently the site is *not* being actively updated on a regular basis, so it could be a long while! If you want to send me a note though, sometimes I can just manually pop one in :)

I am not currently accepting new individual cities at the moment - with just me at the helm I unfortunately don't have the capacity. SORRRYYYY.

All of these cities were inputted with the help of some very cool volunteers in 2020 and I haven't really added any since. To add a new city it takes about 50 hours of work which I simply don't have the juice for now, *but*, there's over 5000 small businesses still on the directory, most of which ship Canada-wide!

It means a few things!When building out each city, a large portion of the businesses listed are from my own curation (as opposed to user submissions). While doing this I pretty much only included businesses with BIPOC, AAPI, queer and women owners .I manually approve and upload each submission, so in my research of the submission, I prioritized pushing through and adding businesses with owners in these categories. I always try to manually include these types of businesses at the top of each Category, so when you're browsing, they're in the top listings you see.I also curate each city's directory landing page to be about two dozen BIPOC, AAPI, queer and women-owned listings right at the top. When looking through the "Canadian Essentials Page", each business with a green star indicate this as well.Most if not all of "My Fave Canadian Stuff" at a given time are in this category.Something interesting in general too! I would say that naturally a lot of the submissions and businesses on this site are majority women-owned without any curation on my end. So that's a lil feel-good bonus while shopping as well :)

Quite the opposite actually 🤭 It's 100% free to be on the site, I don't take a cut of any sales made through the site and I pay out of pocket for all site expenses.

I would ask that you don't! 🤭Again, I am just one person who is doing this in my free time on top of a full-time job, for no money whatsoever. The site will never function like a multi-billion dollar corporation's :)