Viberg

Viberg makes resoleable leather boots in Victoria, British Columbia. Edwin Viberg started the company in Saskatchewan in 1931, during the Depression, then moved it west to work for the loggers of British Columbia. The family is on its fifth generation.

Viberg builds most of the line two ways. Goodyear welt came first, in the late 1960s, and it stitches the whole shoe to a channelled insole between 5.2 and 5.5mm thick. Your foot sits on that insole.

Stitchdown followed in the 1970s, and Viberg has run it for over fifty years. The shop skives the upper by hand, turns the vamp outward, and sews it to a solid leather midsole, so a boot made either way can be resoled more or less forever. We think that answers the price.

Viberg spent close to a decade tracking down the same machines that had been in the workshop sixty years earlier. A 1927 insole machine still runs in the line.

A pair of Viberg boots takes over two hundred operations, and all of them happen in the company's own facility in Victoria. The hides come from tanneries around the world, and the boots are made in Canada from leather bought abroad. We list both facts.