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• Lee's Electronics: 29th and Main - 4522 Main Street
• Main Electronics: 29th and Main - 4554 Main Street
• RP Electronics: Rupert and Grandview Highway - 2752 Rupert Street, Vancouver
• MRO Electronics: 1st and Boundary - 1745 Boundary Road, Vancouver
• Interior Electronics 1st and Boundary - 1520 Boundary Road, Burnaby
• SMI Electronics Near Willowbrook Mall - #109 20120 64 Ave, Langley

• Urban Source: Main Street between 15th and 16th Ave. All kinds of recycled craft materials - everything is cheap!
• Dressew: Hastings Street about 3 blocks west of VHS: Sewing/fabric/knitting/etc. Huge selection, dirt cheap!
• Yoko YaYa: Tinseltown Mall, 1st floor. Japanese dollar store with all kinds of neat stuff.
• Daiso: Aberdeen Mall in Richmond. Same as Yoko Yaya, but about 5 times more stuff.
• Michaels: Alberni Street near Burrard Street. Has almost everything craft-related, but is expensive.

• Home Depot - Terminal Ave (about 1km east of Science World)
• Home Depot - Cambie near Broadway
• Army and Navy - Hastings Street, just a few doors down from VHS; go out the door and turn right.

• Pacific Fasteners: 3934 East 1st Ave. They stock a huge range of fasteners (nuts, bolts, screws, nails etc.) and are pretty close to MRO.
• HD Supply Brafasco: 443 Terminal Ave.
• Fastenal: 36 East 5th Ave, and many other locations.

• Metal Supermarket: Still Creek Drive in Burnaby. Good source for metal rods, beams, angled, etc. in stainless steel, aluminum and more.
• North Star Metal: Metal recycling (wander around; just stay clear of the forklifts).
• MB Superior: Metal recycling (good for wire; ask them to see it).
• Main Sheet Metal: Main Street near National Ave, just below the Georgia Viaduct.

• Lee Valley: SE Marine Drive at Knight St Bridge.
• Princess Auto: Opposite side of the highway from IKEA in Coquitlam.
• KMS Tools: Next to the IKEA in Coquitlam.
• Busy Bee Tools: Near Braid skytrain station in New Westminster.
• Summit Tools: 1st Ave at Boundary.
• KBC Tools & Machinery: Annacis Island, just south of New Westminster.
• Fastenal: 36 East 5th Ave, and many other locations.
• Adler Auto: Surrey and further out locations.
• HollyNorth Production Supply: 1st Ave at Boundary, kind of hard to find. These guys sell to the film industry, but they do cash sales too.

• Ringball: Mainly bearings, some linear slides and some acme screws and such.

• Surrey Plastic Works: Plastic sheet/bars
• Industrial Plastics & Paints: Plastic sheet/bars, paints, polishes, coatings, resins, mold making, fibre glass, carbon fibre.

• Century Pacific Foundry: Steel/Irons
• Pacific Mako Foundry: Aluminum/Copper alloys
• Hastings Brass: Aluminum/Brass alloys
• Thompson Foundry: Steel/Iron
• Robar Industries: Steel/Iron and others

• NCIX / Netlink Computers: Anything by way of computer stuff, many locations
• Linhaw: Cables, racks, etc (Need an account ahead of time, sells to businesses only)

• Digikey: They've got pretty much anything, and they ship overnight from Canada.
• Mouser: Similar to Digikey, but ship from the US (taking an extra day usually).
• Sparkfun: Awesome site with tutorials and lots of breakout boards and rad parts.
• Adafruit: Good starter kits, mostly revolve around Arduino.

Many semiconductor manufacturers run sample programs that let you get small quantities of chips for very cheap or free. Some programs require a registered business contact. See this wiki page for more information.

• Solarbotics: Robotics related parts (motors, electronics, gears, sensors, etc).
• RobotShop: Robots and related parts.

• Inventables: Acrylic sheets, woods and vaneers, moulding materials, etc.
• RepRaper: Cheap ABS and PLA filament, parts, and electronics for 3D printers.
• http://openbeamusa.com/: OpenBeam USA is an online retail store that sells mechanical bits and pieces for your projects.
• http://www.mcmaster.com/: McMaster Carr - massive catalog of engineering components, US only shipping apparently
• http://us.misumi-ec.com/: Misumi USA - another massive catalog of engineering components

• Apex Jr: Surplus gear at good prices, lots of audio amplifier bits including toroids. Will ship a 4 lb bag for US$13.
• Electronic Goldmine: Surplus electronics parts, lots of unique stuff.

In general Point Roberts is closer and easier on Transit/Bike. Blaine is further but offers the chance to pick up a parcel as part of another trip. Tax info at CBSA.

• The Letter Carrier: Point Roberts
• Kinek: Blaine & Point Roberts
• Hagens of Blaine: Blaine
• Security Mail Services: Blaine
• Point Roberts Shell: Point Roberts
• TSB Shipping Plus : Point Roberts

• Great West Wholesale - This is a wholesaler for anything you would find at a dolor store.