Our Story

Hello!

For as long as I can remember, books have been my escape, my delight and my companion.

Readers are a special breed.

I have worked as a bookseller for a Big Box Store, a stay-at-home parent, a Barista, a Social Worker at a Pregnancy Centre, an Adoptions Worker, and a Foster Parent. When we stopped Fostering, I felt tremendous loss and my heart needed some comfort - I turned to books and a local bookstore. It was at this point that I began to resurrect an idea that has been brewing in my mind for many years: a mobile bookshop. This always felt like a bizarre notion, because I looked around and saw nothing similar... until I heard a podcast one day that reminded me "just because it doesn't already exist doesn't mean it SHOULDN'T exist", and I began researching the mobile bookshop idea.

I loved discovering that my idea is actually an old one, when traveling peddlers would come into villages and towns in a horse-drawn wagon to sell their wares... and bookmobiles were borne out a desire to share books with people who were far from local libraries. This made my heart beat faster. These were my people.

So, we did it. Daisy Chain Book Co. was born.

And THEN we opened a bookstore to better connect with our growing community.

Then in 2022 we grew by more than 1600 ft by opening a second location in Beaumont, an area we have been serving with the booktruck since our earliest days. 

Our bookstores are a hybrid of new and previously owned books in a fun and refreshing retro-environment that is creating a community of readers for YEG & Beaumont in a bold, new way. We are dedicated to "Creating a Community of Readers". These bookstores are FOR YOU. We can't wait to see you walk through our doors.

The story of our booktruck and bookstore experience will soon be available in a BOOK! For more details about its progress, please go to my Instagram page HERE. 

Love,

Brandi