Welcome to Burnaby Bag and Burlap Ltd. We offer quality products with prompt friendly service for the retail and wholesale markets. All inquiries are welcome as today's small customer may be tomorrow's larger one. Burlap is an environmentally friendly choice and we are proud to offer goods that are a sustainable ecologically natural product. Burnaby Bag Ltd. began when a post-war immigrant found a use for the gunny sacks that were a by product of his scrap metal operation. His resourcefulness le...

Welcome to Burnaby Bag and Burlap Ltd. We offer quality products with prompt friendly service for the retail and wholesale markets. All inquiries are welcome as today's small customer may be tomorrow's larger one. Burlap is an environmentally friendly choice and we are proud to offer goods that are a sustainable ecologically natural product. Burnaby Bag Ltd. began when a post-war immigrant found a use for the gunny sacks that were a by product of his scrap metal operation. His resourcefulness led him to making 2 small sandbags from the larger gunny. With a wood saw in hand and his wife on the sewing machine, production had begun. Sales increased steadily until more fabric was necessary than was available from gunnys, and so importation of new burlap from India began. In 1973 the company changed hands and Burnaby Bag and Burlap Ltd. as we know it was established. The company enjoyed rapid expansion when the lumber industry realized the value of a low cost, natural breathable fibre to.