What's the story behind our name?

Over several glasses of wine one night, we came up with a long list of names for our new business. All the helpful online advice was to make it short, memorable, different, to reflect the product...  And we also wanted it to reflect an inspiring story. 

Finally it was the story of the Peregrine Falcon in North America that inspired our business’ name.

Fifty years ago a chemical pesticide named dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) was plunging the Peregrine Falcon population towards extinction. Through the banning of DDT and the work of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, the Peregrine Falcon population in Canada is back to pre-DDT levels.  Many dedicated people acted to enable the Peregrine Falcon to persist today.

And we made a corny parallel to Peregrine Glassworks…

Just as the Peregrine Falcon was on the brink of extinction but has now recovered, the drinkware we make has a new lease on life and it too has been recovered. Peregrine Glassworks intercepts each bottle on its journey to the recycling depot and crafts it into an artistic glass. Just like the majestic native falcon, it is something beautiful in our world that almost never existed.

Cool, eh! Cheers!