A Boot Collector Feature
While most Quebec boot factories moved production overseas after World War II, Boulet stayed put — and is now the largest boot factory left in Canada.
Boulet was founded in 1933 in Ste-Tite, Quebec, and has stayed in the same family's hands ever since, now into its third generation of ownership with a fourth coming up behind it. That continuity sets it apart in Canadian bootmaking specifically: when most domestic manufacturers shifted production overseas after World War II, Boulet kept everything in-house, and the factory now holds hundreds of accumulated molds and cutting dies built up over nine decades of designs.
Scale with real in-house craftsmanship behind it — over 200,000 boots a year, stitched, assembled, and finished entirely at the Ste-Tite facility, sold in more than fifteen countries. It's a rare example of a major boot manufacturer that never outsourced production, and the brand has earned a reputation among working cowboys, not just collectors, for holding up to actual ranch use.
Canada's largest boot factory — still family-owned, still made entirely in-house, over ninety years in.