About Us
Support your local business community. Shopping local keeps our communities thriving, unique, and strong.
Made in the 604 is a Pop-Up Market and blog dedicated to supporting and curating the best local artists, crafters, makers and small businesses. We started in 2018 at the Heritage Hall in the heart of Mount Pleasant’s Main Street and have since expanded to hosting Pop-Up Markets in North Vancouver at The Pipe Shop and at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody.
Our shop local events bring together 40 to 90 curated local small businesses in weekly and monthly community pop-up markets. We support small businesses grow their customer-base, test out their products and build brand awareness.
If you’re interested in attending our Pop-Up Markets, check out our upcoming markets here.
If you’re looking to become a vendor at our Pop-Up Markets, click here to fill out our application form.
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What Makes our Heart Beat ❤️❤️❤️
Our markets promote diversity and inclusion. In 2022 we opened community booth spaces to Indigenous owned businesses. We wanted to celebrate Indigenous owned businesses and share the importance of shopping from Indigenous creators, makers, and entrepreneurs with our market visitors. We wanted to go beyond just posting about it on social media, by creating opportunities for Indigenous owned businesses to share their artwork and products with the community. Since we started this program in 2022 we have offered 21 Indigenous owned businesses booths at our markets in Vancouver and North Vancouver free of charge.
We also partner with a local immigrant and refugee serving non-profit organization based in North Vancouver where we also offer community booth spaces to newcomer immigrant and refugee women who are embarking on their entrepreneurial journey in Canada. Since we started this program in 2022 we’ve provided 8 immigrant and refugee women owned businesses booths at our North Vancouver markets free of charge.
We also offer local non profit organizations community spaces to increase awareness for their causes and services for the community. We only work with organizations who are aligned with our values and that we can have long-standing relationships with.
Meet The Founder
Hi, I’m Bahar! ✌🏽
As an entrepreneur myself, I understand the amount of passion, creativity and hard work that goes into building a business and a brand. I’m passionate about supporting small local businesses and connecting with entrepreneurs, local makers, and artisans in my community. That is why I created Made in the 604.
I love the idea of bringing the community together by providing a platform for local business to share products, ideas and passion projects with a wider audience. So, before you make a purchase, I encourage you to consider the wonderful locally curated items sold by local businesses right here in British Columbia, Canada!
I hope that Made in the 604 will be your one-stop hub for discovering new local businesses on our website and meeting with local business owners face-to-face at our Pop-Up Markets.
Join us and be part of keeping our thriving community alive by supporting local businesses, merchants, and creatives that make the social fabric of our community stronger.
Before you make a purchase, consider taking a look at all the cool products designed, created and sold by local business owners from our beautiful city. We've curated a collection of our favourite local entrepreneurs!
Use the hashtag #MadeInThe604 to be discovered and follow us on Instagram @MadeInThe604. We are open to collaborations! If you have an idea of how we can work together to build our small business community, send a note!
I respectfully acknowledge that we are operating on the unceded traditional territory of the Kwikwetlem First Nation, which lies within the shared territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie, Musqueam, Qayqayt, Squamish, and Sto’:lo Nations.
It is important for me to acknowledge the lands that I am privileged to live, work and raise my children on as a way of showing respect and honouring the Indigenous Peoples of these lands.
Acknowledgment for me is a simple way of resisting the erasure of Indigenous histories and working towards honouring and inviting the truth.
Inclusivity Commitment
At our events we celebrate diversity and welcome all races, religions, cultures, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender expressions, and gender identities. Discrimination or harassment of any kind is not tolerated. We provide a safe, inclusive space where everyone is valued. Let's celebrate our differences and build a more inclusive community together.