Our Story

It started out as a casual suggestion on a dog walk. We were living in Inuvik at the time, the largest town in the NWT past the Arctic Circle, myself working as a counsellor and Jel as a paramedic. With the Arctic summer market fast approaching, I suggested to Jel that he order a stroopwafel iron and make his favourite cookies as a way of sharing culture and giving back to the community instead of only through 911 calls. And so, we ordered the tiniest stroopwafel iron off eBay, and it arrived just in time to bake at the market. My favourite memories from that time were biking packages of stroopwafels across town on Friday nights with our dog and watching two Indigenous women giggle as they tasted their first fresh stroopwafels while selling sealskin earrings. 

When Jel’s contract ended in Inuvik that fall, we were faced with a bit of an in-between season before our plans to head back to Ontario for Christmas to visit my family. So we, very much on a whim, found a Boler for sale online in Alberta, and purchased it over dinner with friends who encouraged us that this would be the best way to see as much of fall as we could no matter the weather. So we drove from Inuvik to Calgary, picked up our little camper and took it back to explore Northern BC, working our way South whenever the weather would become a bit chillier. Eventually when the colours were gone, we drove cross country home to Ontario, and baked for as many communities as we could around my parent’s place.

After spending the winter with my family, we followed our souls once again back North to live in the Yukon, as I’d always wanted to, and continued to sell stroopwafels at the weekly market in Whitehorse until moving back this way to be closer to family. When you live so remotely and far away, the importance of sharing life while everyone still has their health, is put into perspective- at least that’s been the case for us.

We converted our camper into our now cookie trailer, deciding that ultimately it was time for it to be on a different kind of adventure, just as we are, and agreeing that in the end we’re more tent people anyway. Even though what we do has grown to look very different over time, for us it’s about community and culture. That’s how it started, and that’s what we always want this to be.

Love,

J & L