Blundstone Canada

Hi there, I’m an official Canadian war artist who went to Afghanistan with the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in November, 2009. I’m the first poet in the 90 year tradition of Canadian war artists and I spent 18 months visiting the troops in the field watching them prepare for Afghanistan.
In November, I flew to Afghanistan to Kandahar Air Field, the base, then outside the wire to X in the middle of Taliban country. I wore my Blundstone Boots for thousands of hours while with the army and was choked to find out that Blundstone doesn’t make the lace ups any more!  I recently bought slip-ons.
I love my Blundstone Boots (no shit) and am going to donate them to the war museum when I donate all of my notebooks sometime in the future.

Oh ya and I want to go to Australia because I’m so fucking tired and I need a big rest!

My boots have gotten me lost (and most of the time found too) all over 3 continents and sometimes even in my hometown. They’re my go-to and saviors in the snow, the rain and on the dance floor. By some happy circumstance my left and right boots don’t match- when I bought them I swear they were the same colour but after a few months of wear it became pretty clear than they weren’t! So, I hope this means that somewhere out there (possibly near the Boot Shop in St. Catharines, Ontario) I have a boot sole-mate who probably has just as many stories! Oddly though, it wasn’t until I moved to Saskatoon that people started to notice my mismatched feet- but all of them seemed pretty impressed. This picture is a few years old now, and while my Blundstone boots are a little more beat up they are no less amazing than they were on day 1, and I still love getting to check them out when I put my feet up where ever on the planet I happen to be.

Big love from the Land of the Living Skies!
Hayley Rutherford
Saskatoon, SK

This is a picture of me and my Blundstone Boots coming back from a mine
site 300k NE of Whitehorse, YK at 10000 feet in the air. The best boots, no
BS that I have ever worn!!!!

Guye Ruprecht

My hip Aunt Mary turned me on to these boots last December, so I bought myself a pair for Christmas. I’ve been walking all over China with them ever since! In this picture, my Blundstone boots are all that stands between me and the amenities of a passenger train in Inner Mongolia. Can’t wait to try them out in the summer!!

Byron Miller

I love my Blundstone boots…I have had them for 12 years and they have been through a lot with me. They have taken me up some mountains in Banff, Alberta. They have taken me to work and just hung out with me. That is the good part of my story. I had noticed the soles were cracking, and so the next time I went in to the city, I took them with me to a shoe repair store-I was told they were not able to repair them, and I was choked-They are by far the most favorite boot I own and I didn’t want a new pair…I want my old boots back! If you could resole them for me it would be worth more than a trip!
Thanks!!  -  Wendy Fultz

As you well know, winter is upon us and just this morning, we endured -29 C temperatures with the glorious snow all around us.Luckily, as my husband finally conceded, he bought winter boots to combat the frigid New Brunswick temperatures. Thankfully, his Blundstone boots just came in time and has (some what graciously) posed for our chance to win a trip to Australia. What a perfect way to work in those dark, fitted boots with a trip down yonder and enjoying all that our friends to the South have to offer!

All the best,
Stephanie and Jason Dalziel

Hello,
I have worked as a registered nurse doing 12hr shift work in the downtown toronto hospitals since 1988 (which is when I moved to Canada from NYC, and purchased my FIRST pair of Blundstones soon after in the early 1990’s……) and the ONLY shoes I can wear that do not hurt are my broken in Blundstones. Every time I buy a new pair (I own 5 now, mostly chisel toes in black and brown, one green suede, and and one pair of RM Williams), the oldest pair is taken to my hospital locker and used as my nursing shoe until my toes literally break through, which happened only once. Yet I still couldn’t bring myself to throw them away (they are so comfortable and my feet never swell nor do my legs throb after my 12hr stint in the ICU!). I had them patched up on the inside, and managed to get another year and a half out of them, before the sole finally began to peel from the bottom. This was my very first pair and had been over a decade old. I don’t want to gross you out, but they had just spent too many hours getting wet and dirty in the OR…..

I am now on my second “old”pair, being used as a nursing shoe. Thank you for not making them in white:)

Helen S.

I bought my first pair of #500 black Blundstone boots when I was a 25 year old single girl living in Toronto in 1999. They took me through many walks along Yonge Street, a few boyfriends, and lots of adventures! This included my 30th birthday trip to the Grand Canyon with my twin sister, where I hiked down to the bottom and up again in my trusty and comfy Blundstone boots (see picture - they took a beating in the red muddy trails but easily saw me through this amazing experience). Since then, they’ve seen me on a trip to Thailand hiking through northern hillside trails, getting married and now I’m sitting here awaiting the birth of my second daughter….and I just bought my SECOND pair of Blundstone boots to see me through another amazing decade of life. After all, there’s nothing easier than pulling on some Blundstone boots when you’re trying to get out the door in slushy Toronto with two kids! Thanks Blundstone boots - here’s to more memories in the next 10 years!

Louise Malhotra

Just bought my boots about a month ago haven’t worn anything else since ……except my slipper inside !!! Just got back from a walk on the High Tide Trail in Eastport, Newfoundland which has everything from large rock to fine sand and I must say that these boots are truly “all terrain”

Tom Hallett

Well i started on a Boot Hunt, it took me  to 6 or 7 Stores here in Fredericton, NB. Finally a guy a work with said, “Hey have you ever tried Blundstone boots”? I said, “never herd of them. He said, ” I have them on right now, have had them for 10 Years and they still feel Great”. Well, to make a long storey short I went  and purchased my first pair. Wow! I am impressed, these Boots are unbelievable. I have been telling everyone at work and really they are the Best Boot I have ever had on my feet in my 36 Years. What would it mean to mean to get to go Australia? Considering I have never been out of Canada, words would never ever describe what it would feel and mean to me.  Here is a Picture of my very first Blundstones and I really think I will go and buy another Color . Thanks.

Chad Crouse
Fredericton, NB

My Blundstones were my birthday present to myself when I turned 40…..eight years later they’re still going strong. They’ve seen me through Winnipeg winters, a Toronto ice storm and a European adventure….including a bootful of the Mediterranean in Barcelona! My next pair will be chisel-toes so I can always wear them to work and it would be great to be able to buy them down under!

Kelly Schettler
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Here are my Blundstone boots in Narita, Japan. While waiting for a bus I noticed this young girl who was having a hard time walking in her chosen footwear.  I, on the other hand, was wearing my Blundstone boots, so I was easily able to catch up to her to ask for a photo of us with our contrasting feet, and still had time to run back to get the bus!

Lisa Steffan
St. Catharines, Ontario

il mio primo paio di blundstone..

andrea

Some things are made better than other things. Obvious, I know, but then why do we still choose to buy and make things that are poor quality, won’t perform as well as others, and won’t last?

These old boots…Blundstone CSA Greenpatch. Steel toed slip-on wonder boots. They don’t look like much now and are finally in need of replacement. 6 years old. A few years of cement and mud while building foundations. Walks with Lisa and the dog on the beach pretty much every day for the past couple of years in rain and snow. Early morning surf checks. Digging in the garden. Quality. They aren’t cheap, but they are good.

I bought my Blundstone Boots last winter on the recommendation of a friend. She said they were the world’s best boots and I’ve come to believe her. They saw me through my trek to college everyday in Alberta’s harsh northern winter weather. Then I took them to B.C with me to work for spring and summer. One day my coworkers and I were contracted to clean the perimeter of a landfill. I was put down in the slimiest section because my boots held up better than anyone else’s on the gross terrain. It was a dirty job, but my Blundstone Boots could do it!

These are my brand new Blundstone Boots!! I can’t wait to scuff them up. I wore my last pair until my toe poked through and will probably do the same with these !

HAPPY HIKING !!

Doug Mcculloch

4 years of faithful kitchen service from a happy chef. bought a new pair last week, just as comfortable. Thanks

Andrew Gauthier

I’m Gloria Bernard and I’m just getting started at 80! My prized pair of Blundstone Boots (a gift from my thoughtful daughter) have proven to be as hardy as me. I garden in them, do the yard work in them, and even go to church, on occasion, in them! I do hope that one day I’ll even be able to say that I’ve worn them on a treck to Uluru (Ayers Rock), a lovely place that I’ve always hoped to visit. Thank you, Blundstone for the hardiest boots around.

Gloria Bernard

Sirs: I was returning from a month of field research on the species diversity of beetles and other insects in the forests of the Lesser Antillean island of St. Vincent when I met Jim Ranscombe in the airport on Barbados. I did not know he was the manager of the Queen St. West, Toronto, Blundstone boot store. He noticed my Blundstone boots and asked about them. I was well pleased with them and talked up a good sales pitch to recommend them to him. He then told me who he was and how he was pleased at my compliments. I then introduced myself as a biology professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, and explained that I did a lot of field work in diverse places, all with my Blundstone  Boots. And I received an invitation to say a few good words about the boots to a wider audience. Here they are:

I have used my pair for some 8 years in field work in North America, and the West Indies, and Africa. In caves, tropical forests, and northern tundra habitats. They have been splendid in this diverse mix of habitats. The only down side is that the heels have finally worn down and some replacements will be needed before my next field season. I attach a photo from a few years back of working in caves in Quebec.

Stewart Peck

I love my Blundstone boots, I wear them every day to school because  they’re comfortable and they’re are my favorite shoes.  I wore them to Jasper on the highest mountain with by brother Fox who also wears his Blundstone boots everywhere. I wear them horse back riding and they don’t wear out. I think they’re great. They’re easy to put on and they last forever and if they start to get dusty or looking old, I just polish them up and they look good as new. I even wore my Blundstone Boots on picture day at school, my dress shoes kill me so. You can wear them every season, they’re warm, cool, comfortable and last a long time.

What are they? They’re my Blundstone Boots!

Natasha Slawnych

“The Wall family decided to get their family photo taken, and then I looked at their feet. Enough said. They love their blundstone boots.”

Maya Corrie

In the city I have my `chisel toes’…..up at the cabin I love my steel toes.

David Kesslar

I picked up my pair of Blundstone Boots from Oh My Sole in Halifax in 2003.  Since then, I’ve worn them everywhere I go.  I’ve worn them while I crossed the Charles Bridge in Prague, while drinking a few pints in the Hofbrauhaus in Munich, and while climbing the Eiffel Tower where I met a friendly Aussie couple who were also wearing Blundstone Boots.

My last overseas trip was in June, 2009.  In the attached picture, I’m wearing my Blundstone Boots, while standing with my sweetheart Margaret, at the Gullfoss Waterfalls in Iceland.  Note the lack of warning signage and safety barriers!  It’s a good thing that my Blundstone Boots have great grippy treads; it made my walk along the wet rocks around the falls a lot more secure! You’ll also notice in this pic that Margaret was wearing her Doc Martins;  she finally gave them up for a pair of Blundstone 550’s this weekend!

Cheers,

George Bauer
Halifax, Nova Scotia

This is my dog Jill feeling really bad about chewing the tab off of my Blunnies, which makes it harder to pull them on now. I love them so much though, that I wear them anyway (and I still love Jill too!). I’ve been wearing Blunnies since I could walk and this is my third pair. Over the years, I’ve worn them with my coveralls when I do chores on the farm and with my favourite skirts and dresses. There’s nothing like Blunnies!! I’m going to wear them forever

Famke Liefbroer
Tangent, Alberta, Canada

I live in Saskatchewan. Flat, windy, cold. And that’s summer. Or as  it’s called here, July. After a hard day outdoors, my Blundstone Boots deserve to warm up by the fire. I hate the cold and love these boots.

Darren Ford

These are Ela’s second pair of Blunnies - her first were pink suede. She loves her Rigger boots because they are “stylish” and go with skirts, jeans and leggings - even Lamé  and she can wear them to do practically anything - including rock climbing!

Shannon Kang

From the top and Back side of an elephant. these boots can do anything and go ANYWHERE.

I love them

Samantha Schuster

My first pair arrived in Iqaluit NWT (now Nunavut) by mail as a congratulations (to myself) for being accepted in Ontario’s relatively new midwifery education program in 1995.

I am now on my 4th pair and these boots have covered a lot of ground. They have been to hundreds of births as well as travelled far and wide. I have worn them thru dry arctic winters at -40 degree as well as wet Ontario ones. They served me incredibly well trekking the 21 day hike around the circular Annapurna mountain range, which included, of course, the highest walkable mountain pass in the world - Throng La.

Last year my husband and I took our kids back to Nepal for their first trip to see their Nepali grandparents.. . It took seven hours to get to the family village with 2 kids under 7 and my blundstone Boots did it again.

Now I want to go to their home country and bring back little ones for the kids……. Blundstone dreamin

Samantha Schuster

” I never get on a bike without my Chunks. Got to race super bikes at the Las Vegas Speedway in January ‘09. The boys I raced with gave me a hard time for wearing Blundstone Boots and not race boots, but they are all you really need”
Kevin Chow
Kamloops BC

On my bucket list has always been that I make it to the Aran Islands in the west of Ireland in Galway Bay. Well, this past summer of ‘09, my best friend and I finally made it there. There are two ways to get to the Islands: one is to take a ferry; the other is to charter a small plane. We chose the latter. On the way out to the plane, the pilot called out my name and announced that I’d be sitting next to him up front! Very cool! So … this is a pic of the ol’ dogs in the absolute best and hardiest boots in the world. These Blunnies have been with me through many a trip across the universe and I know that they’ll be with me on many more. They’re my absolute favourite footwear and I never refrain from pitching their merits to all my buddies.

If it wasn’t for my beloved blunnies, I don’t know how I would have made it across Tibet. They were especially handy at Mt. Everest Base Camp where they kept my toes toasty warm and were perfect for the rocky terrain. Next stop for my boots….The Aussie Outback! Ularu, here I come!

Sean Williams

I am the only one in our family who does not have their own pair of Blundstone Boots so on the rare occasion that a pair is not being worn I grab them. Blundstone Boots in our family are worn when riding horses, dirt bikes, four wheelers, bicycles, on the construction site and for hiking. We would never be without our Blundstone Boots!

L. Kean

This was my trip to Costa Rica in February of this past year. As much as I love to wear my Blundstone Boots sometimes you need to strip down.

Rebecca Emlaw

My 3rd pair of Blunnies proudly posing by Kaieteur Falls in Guyana. I never leave home without my boots. They’ve done me proud.

Sandra Mifsud

I mean really late. Like 400 years late! I bought my first pair of Blundstone Boots in 2008 to attend the wedding of Thorstein Olafsson and Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey, Greenland. Missed the wedding, and lost track of Thorstein and Sigrid.  In fact we lost track of everyone living in Greenland. That wedding was the last we heard of the old Viking colony in Greenland. Too bad. I would have impressed them – a rube from Vinland showing up in a class pair of boots like these. And I even took a picture so I could show them. Maybe they could add it to the wedding album. Who knew you guys would be looking for pictures of your boots in action? Here’s my right foot looking out over the ruins of the church and Hvalsey Fjord on a cool August afternoon.

We heard the couple moved back to her in-laws in Iceland.  So this year my Blundstone Boots took me over a lava flow to visit a Viking house at Husholmi, near Reykjavik, where we feasted on an Icelandic treat: rotted shark. It`s a little like eating a chewy version of Tidy Bowl. Thankfully we had a good dose of Brennevin to wash it down. But I hear the in-laws were actually up in northern Iceland, so I’m still trying to connect. Anyone in Tasmania hooked up with Thor and Siggy on their Facebook?

Rob Ferguson

Halifax

Every Blundstone Boot’s owner has a story. A long time ago I found a country where the people wore shorts! spoke funny! and did not wear socks. I seemed to fit in not sure why they called it Stralia but it was not spelt that way. They taught me about Blundstone Boots GOOD thing cause the next thing they taught me was Walkabout. That I learnt well. Thirty years and six countries later the only thing that has changed is I now have three pairs of Blundies. A fancy dancy pair for work, A really important pair used for anything that involves Power tools or trips to the hardware store, and a pair on it’s way to becoming the important pair. What better way is there to start the journey hiking in BC back country

Dave Boardman

I bought these #500 boots from a shop on W. 4th ave in Kitsilano, in January 2001 the day before my first trip overseas, and they have been with me on every trip since! They have taken me to some very interesting places… Like opening for the Rolling Stones, or that crosswalk in front of Abbey Road Studios, or to see what’s left of the Berlin Wall, Amsterdam, Sweden and Norway to every province in Canada, ( a few times ) and coast to coast in the lower 48. And of course Australia! They’re the only boots I brought with me when I moved to Toronto 2 years ago. Always comfy, lightweight, and looking good.

Can’t wait to see where they take me next.

Gregory Macdonald

I’ve had my Blunstones for about 5 years now and they go everywhere with me including work! They’ve walked through the harshest of conditions in Canada including the frozen arctic. For the past few years I’ve been an air ambulance pilot in Manitoba and the Nunavut. In this line of work they are the perfect multi purpose boot, from inside the cockpit to outside on the burning hot asphalt, or even an ice covered maneuvering area. People always ask questions about these boots, just wondering how they hold up to the extremes and I keep telling them, they’re all you need! Just throw on a couple pairs of socks!! Here’s a picture of me in Arviat, NU at -40C during a medevac, (formally known as Eskimo Point).

Nick from Manitoba

This spring, work began on my sister and brother in law’s new house. The house is being constructed with natural building techniques, including straw and clay walls. I was eager to help out, but I was informed that I needed to wear safety boots on the construction site. Glad to have an excuse to buy a pair of Blundstone boots, I purchased a pair at my neighbourhood shoe store.  The boots were the best. They kept my feet dry and blister free the entire week.

Jean Sander

My name is Quest and I just turned 6 years old.

My mom is writing this for me as I have just just started to print but she is faster. Here is a picture of me with my boots. There is one hole in the toe and they are getting a bit too tight, but I still like wearing them everyday. My older brother Paris, wore my boots when I was a baby to get them ready for me and he did a good job. I like my boots very much.

Thank you for making my boots.

Quest

One morning realizing my boots had disappeared, I went looking for them. Thinking the worst, that our dog Penny had taken them and eaten them, I found them in this state. Apparently, Penny couldn’t tell the difference between my Blunnys and her own puppies, and put them all together. A testament to the comfort of my boots. As comfortable as wearing a puppy on your foot.

Thomas Evertsen

Here are my Blundstone Boots a few miles north of the Pitons in St. Lucia
Most excellent boots for travelling they are.  Easy on and off - for those fun security lines at the airport and oh so simple for slipping them off when your in your oh so spacious plane seat.
Pebble in your boots - no worries just slip them off and voila.
Sand in your boots - dido.
 Hiking up the pitons was a breeze in them.

Love my Blundstone Boots

Mac from Ontario

I love my Blundstones because they’ve walked me down the cobble stones of Old Quebec, hopped across trains with me in Europe, hiked across the rolling hills of Scotland, trotted across a muddy race track in Liverpool.

Okay, I lied. Really, it would have been more impressive if they had done all that. But they are still waiting for their turn abroad.

They’ve been to Shawville, Quebec; trekked through the woods of Otterlake and walked all over Ottawa. They’ve gone with me up to Sudbury, onto my family’s island, and gotten lost with me on a neighboring shore; and at night have slept soundly at the foot of my cot in our log cabin.
Through all of that they have kept me warm and dry in my home country; and I would love the chance to visit their home in Tasmania.
XoXo
Zoe Doucette

How Funny, I just saw this contest sitting here at the airport in Vancouver on route to Sydney. Hopefully that doesn’t eliminate me from going to Tassie!!!! Because I would cancel this surf trip to Noosa, to go to Tassie in a heartbeat!!!! Well…here goes…..I bought these little babies in Cooma over 10 years ago (that’s for sure) in that little hardward store on the corner there. Anyway, aside from the fact they’ve been too many places for me to remember it was on this one particular occasion a buddy of mine from Prague (I’m Canadian from Whistler…well Pemberton actually - hopefully this won’t affect my chances either)….and I left our little house in Granada Spain and left for Morrocco. We wound up on camels and rode into the night and I remember being in amongst the dunes playing harmonica and the acoustics were unreal. In the morning we woke up to the most fantastic colours and I started running down these dunes making these big turns (skier) and magically he captured this shot of me. When I got back to Canada, Toronto artist (singer song-writer) Craig Smith said “THAT’S IT”!!! Of course I replied, “What’s it”? He said that’s the cover of my new album brother! And it he actually did it! Well, in case my photo and story is not your favourite, I may as well use this opportunity to give Craig Smith a plug (www.craig-smith.com). His album titled Not Sure, Not Sure was compared to both the acoustic and electric sides of Neil Young on CBC radio, not to mention Jeff Tweedy. Oh man……I have to seriously run….just heard my name called to the flight……sorry for the rush, hope this makes sense…..no time to proof read!!! Safe flight!!! Christian

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. A shot of my original Blundstones returning to whence they came after years of faithful and adventurous service.

Best,
Andrew

My first day with my new Blundstones! I walked all day! I walked the beach, the road..some wooded trails ..wow ..never have I had boots that was that kind of comfort from the get-go!! What a difference a good pair of Shoes make! Love them! What a wonderful day! cindy

I bought these little darlings 6 years ago and unlike my other worldly possessions, these boots have travelled with me every step of the way.  I have lived in these Blundstones on both coasts of Canada, from the rocky shores of eastern Newfoundland (where this picture was taken this year) to the mountains and sidewalks of British Columbia. As my life goal is to visit every continent of the world and these boots have been with me so far, it would be very exciting if they could be worn (and be the reason for!) my first steps in Australia!

Jenn Ghaney
St. John’s, Newfoundland

Photograph was taken beside a Muskoxen in Cambridge Bay in the Arctic!

Travelled from Inuvik East to Sachs, Holman, Paulatuk, Kugluktuk, Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and then ended the trip in Cambridge Bay.

Temperatures with wind hit minus 50 Celsius.

The boots were solid throughout!

Cheers
Martin

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