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About Clayoquot Crafts
Clayoquot Crafts is a small business located in Tofino, BC, on teh West Coast of Canada. We are the last stop on the trans-Canada highway, the next stop is wilderness. Daniel Lamarche is the owner of Clayoquot Crafts and he named the company after our area here which is called Clayoquot Sound (pronounced Cla-kwhat Sound).
Daniel has lived in Tofino, BC on the West Coast of Canada since 1972. Tofino is located in Clayoquot Sound, a designated United Nations Biosphere. Daniel grew up in Quebec and after travelling as a young man decided to make the small village of Tofino his home. Besides the ocean and beaches which draw a lot of visitors to Tofino, Daniel was attracted by the beautiful west coast rain forests. He believes that the Western Red Cedar here is the most beautiful cedar in the world.
Throughout the early years, Daniel worked with cedar in many ways from harvesting, making cedar shakes, as a sawmill operator, wood drying and building cedar houses along the West Coast. Making furniture first as a hobby, Daniel started Clayoquot Crafts in 1992. A self-taught craftsman, he quickly made a name for himself. Over the years Daniel has acquired various Awards and Satisfied Customers in North American and Abroad.
Daniel works in collaboration with Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation people, who have lived in the Pacific Northwest for centuries and are known as those who know and respect the cedar. Clayoquot Crafts only uses salvaged local red cedar making their outdoor cedar furniture eco-friendly. By purchasing Clayoquot Craft cedar furniture you helping to keep old-growth BC forests intact.
Names and Pronunciations of Clayoquot Sound
Daniel has named his company Clayoquot Crafts and his cedar outdoor furniture after local names.
Clayoquot Sound (Pronounced Cla-kwhat Sound)
The area of ocean, islands, rain forests, beaches mountains, villages that make up this area of the west coast of Canada and the northeast Pacific Ocean coastal environment. For more information about Clayoquot Sound please visit theClayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve website.
Nootka (pronounced as it’s spelled Noot-ka)
The Nootka are a band of First Nations people who have lived along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, and the northwest portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Nootka Sound is located just north of Clayoquot Sound.
Cape Cod, Adirondack and Muskoka are not native British Columbian words of course, but they are recognized as descriptive words for a unique and comfortable outdoor chair design. Many of us have experienced these chairs in back yards, on decks or by the beach. The first version of an Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. He was on vacation at Westport, inside the Adirondack State Park in the United States. In Canada the chair is also known as the Muskoka Chair. Muskoka is cottage country and an outdoor recreational region in southern Ontario. Daniel’s are the most beautiful, functional, comfortable and environmentally friendly Adirondack or Muskoka chairs in the world.
Location of Clayoquot Crafts
Clayoquot Crafts is located in beautiful Tofino, BC, Canada. Bring a little bit of this super-natural environment to your home, cottage or cabin with our fine-quality, hand-crafted cedar furniture. Rest assured that by purchasing Clayoquot Crafts furniture you are not only getting gorgeous, custom made, red cedar furniture but that you are helping to keep our important coastal temperate rain forests intact in Clayoquot Sound.
