Woods Canada

The Infinity Sports Group Ltd. is proud to announce the acquisition of Woods Canada Limited.
The acquisition includes all Woods Canada Limited trademarks,
intellectual properties, and business assets in Canada, the United States and, Europe.
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1885 - 1895 James W. Woods began his business in 1885, selling canvas and canvas products to lumbermen, prospectors, adventurers and explorers. By 1895, he had established his own manufacturing facility and began to produce tents, sleeping bags and clothing.

1896 The discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek (by Skookum Jim, George Carmack and Tagish Charlie) touched off the Klondike Gold Rush. Woods products climbed the Chilkoot Pass with the pioneers in 1896.

1896 - 1905 During 1898, Woods products mapped the Yukon and the North with Tyrell and the Geological Survey of Canada and they sailed with Amundsen on the tiny sloop Gjöa through the Northwest Passage in 1905

1906 - 1915 In preparation for the First Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913 - 1915), Woods designed the Arctic parka, combining outer shells of their patented Canatite® canvas with down insulation and traditional fur hoods.

1916 – 2008 A century of firsts - Woods was first up Mt. Logan in 1925, first to circumnavigate North America on the St Roch in 1940, and joined Laurie Skreslet as the first Canadian to summit Everest in 1982.

In 1940, Ernest Hemingway, based on his own experience of Woods down sleeping bags, chose to feature a Woods Arctic down sleeping robe in his classic novel of the Spanish Civil War, “For whom the Bell Tolls”. Hemingway’s hero Robert Jordan, to the surprise of his companions chose to sleep outside in the snow in his sleeping bag
“You don’t know why those eiderdowns (from the Woods Boys) cost sixty-five dollars”, Robert Jordan thought. “I’d like to have a dollar for every day that I have slept in that thing in the snow.”

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