"Winter Blahs Blowout" Sale in Ancaster!

We're hoping to ease the February Chill in the air with an impromptu sale in our Ancaster location! Starting today (Friday February 20) until Saturday March 7, 2009 - The Great Canadian Gift Company will be offering 20% off of every product in the Ancaster Store!

The truth is that we're really excited about our many new Great Canadian Product finds for Spring and as they start to arrive in our Ancaster Retail/Warehouse location, we're a bit panicked about having enough room for everything! SOOOOOO - this is a no holds barred sale, every product is 20% off - this includes Gourmet Food Items, Personal Care Spa Items, Baby Gifts, Clothing, Chocolates, Themed Gift Baskets, Webkinz and all our other Great Canadian gift ideas.

Sale prices are for in-person shopping in the Ancaster location only. Tell your friends!

What to put in a Canadian Gift for Barack Obama?

We were pleased to be able to answer that question this week! With President Obama visiting Canada this week for his meeting in Ottawa, Jimmy from Y103.9 FM Radio in London called our offices and talked to Glen about it. The main question being: "What would you include in a Gift Basket for Barack Obama if you were asked to present him with a Canadian Gift?" They had lots of on-air fun with this question and discussed several different options including Moose Droppings (Chocolate Covered Almonds) just for fun and more seriously, the gift of a glass block Inukshuk.

We do really well with Inukshuks - they make excellent Personal and Corporate gifts - the Inukshuk was a traditional wayfinding tool for the Inuit but it also symbolizes "working together" and a "common direction". With the Inukshuk being a very recognizable symbol of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, we think that one of our in stock items would make a fabulous gift for President Obama.

Check out our Inukshuk Offerings here!

We've started blogging about "Great Canadian Things" !

Throughout the last four years of building our business, setting up two retail stores and building a successful online business - we've been connecting with our fans and customers in many ways ... now we're at the next stop, we've decided to develop a blog! This means that we'll be posting "breaking news" right here whenever it happens. Look here to find our announcements of new and exciting products or discussion about unique uses and the popularity of certain Great Canadian products. We're also looking forward to reading your comments about your experience with our stores, staff, products and ideas.