Buchan's Kerrisdale Stationery

Traditional store finds young market online After pandemic, landmark business navigates e-commerce realm

Buchan's Kerrisdale Stationery updated their business hours.

Ok we lawyered up for Halloween🎃👔💼

The Maruman Clarte loose leaf binders come in A5 & B5. Whether for work or for school, stay organized with subject dividers, refillable paper, with choice of binder colors (grey and pink).

Loose leafs are fountain pen friendly and available in lined, grid and blank.

It’s finally spooky season at Buchan’s 🦇🎃👻
Check out our Halloween store windows!

Notebooks and pens, the old school combo but with all these color and type options it’s hard to pick one..

Our stalogy collection has grown over the last two weeks and we now carry their Nitto notebooks along side the Editor series 365 and 1/2 year notebooks.

Not only do they have quality paper, they also come in various colors and sizes. You can check them out in-store or on our website.

And who can forget out beloved Lamy fountain pen, take a look at the new Safari White with red clip.. 😍

What’s your favourite notebook and pen pair up?

As a way of showing our appreciation towards all of you, we are having an October giveaway!
Shout out to and - helping us to host this awesome giveaway event.

The prize is a leuchtturm dot grid notebook with the buchan's logo. The winner can choose one of the three colors from these fountain pen-friendly notebooks. Additionally you will also be getting three Canada printed Pentel ballpoint pens.

How to enter the giveaway?
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2) Must be located in North America
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The giveaway will run from October 12th to October 18th , 2021. Winner will be drawn on October 19th and they will have the option to pick it up in person or we will ship it to them. If you have more questions, ask away in the comments section below.

The winner will be contacted via DMs and must accept the prize within 24 hours, or a new winner will be selected. The winner must be 18 years of age or older and reside in the United States or Canada. This contest is not affiliated with Instagram.
Good luck everyone!!😁

Is the weather making you feel a little blue? Well we might just have the perfect navy blue thing for you.

The new Twsbi Diamond 580 Navy Blue is now available in store and on our website.

Sunsets, Sunrise, Fall and more.
The color orange just simply brightens up the day..
Here we tried out some lovely inks from Herbin, Ferris Wheel, Sailor Shikiori and Lamy on Nakabayashi loose leaf paper.

But I must say the Sailor Habanero stole the show. 🧡

Today we honour the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. The day is for us all to commemorate the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.

Diplomat Elox Ring Black/Orange Pens.
The name Elox comes from “Eloxieren” which means anodization in German🇩🇪
This design features zeppelin-inspired aluminum body and parts of orange aluminum crafted by horizontal rings.
This design is available in ballpoint, rollerball and fountain pens.

You should always have Greens in your life. Was it said regarding the food pyramid and vegetables? Maaaybe.. but I think it applies here as well.

Look at this wonderful combination. Recently we got notebooks and binders from Nakabayashi and their papers are fountain pen friendly!

That obviously is great news because you can pair them up with the new Kaweco Dark Olive fountain pens 💚🥰

FALL in love with this Box of Fascinations from Ferris Wheel Press.🇨🇦🍁
Lots of variety of colours are in this beautiful gift box!

Which ink is your favorite??👀

Parafernalia brings in a modern twist to their pens and mechanical pencils.

These amazingly pens are very smooth to write with. You can now get these Italian pens at our store.

I was going to make a pun about Benu but I don’t think Ben and you would appreciate that..

🤣 Jokes aside.. We brought in new fountain pens from Benu’s Euphoria and Tailsman collection. These beautiful pens are available both in-store and on our website.

Which Tailsman collection myth is your favourite? 👀 Mine is the Dragon’s Blood.

Come in for our Back to School Sale!

There’s 20% off on selected items including pens, pencils, mechanical pencils, notebooks and more.

They are here!

2022 Cavallini wall and desk calendars feature various beautiful designs from the cavallini archives. These love selection of calendars as well as planners are available in store and on our website.

Also look at how beautifully Itadori (our plant) livens up the place 🥰

Let us make the school a little more fun!
We’ll be having back to school sale on quality stationery items.
After using our notebooks, regular notebooks will be like toilet paper to you!😁🧻

Buchan's is a treasure trove of fine stationery & unique, high-quality gifts. The ideal sales associate would have a passion for all things paper and the spirit of creativity & gift-giving. This position may advance into Assistant Manager if the fit is right.

Skills: excellent customer service and problem-solving.

Values: communication, punctuality, reliability, & honesty.

Duties: customer service, merchandising and stocking; receiving new stock and other assigned duties.

Experience: Retail experience and knowledge of Point-of-Sale systems.

Candidates must be flexible and available to work weekdays/weekends, including holidays (always a busy time for us!).

Compensation depends upon experience and skills. Part-time positions are also available.

Picture day📷
Let us introduce our cool neighbors, because our photos are never complete without them!
and Big thanks for the great camera and lovely plant Itadori:) 🪴

Notebook Covers have always been an everyday-use item of convenience.

These KRAFT notebook covers from King Jim is made from washable Kraft paper. You can slide through to see its amazing use.

New video is up!!
https://youtu.be/t-Vnz_X-iTc

Shimmer Inks Review and How to Use Them (J. Herbin, Ferris Wheel Press and Kyo no oto) In this video, we looked at the basics of Shimmer Inks and tried them on Maruman and Traveler's Notebook. We swatched the inks using various pens and nibs to...

Established in 1957, Buchan's Kerrisdale Stationery is a treasure trove of fine stationery & unique, high-quality gifts located in the heart of Vancouver's Kerrisdale Neighborhood.
The ideal candidate would have a passion for all things paper, writing instruments and the spirit of creativity & gift-giving.
Experience: Previous retail or luxury retail experience or relevant customer related experience (i.e. hospitality, etc) and knowledge of Point-of-Sale systems preferred but not a must.

Values: communication, punctuality, reliability & honesty.

Duties: customer service, merchandising and stocking; receiving new stock and other assigned duties.

Candidates must be flexible and available to work weekdays/weekends, including holidays (always a busy time for us!).
Compensation depends upon experience and skills.
Full-time or Part-time positions available.

The new TWSBI swipe fountain pens are here!

With two different colors and five different nib options, you can now find them in our store and on our website. The packaging also comes with two converters and a cartridge!

Okay but can we talk about how nice it looks with the maruman septcouleur notebook? Dare I say… perfect combo 👀🥰

British Columbia Day is right around the corner. With this long weekend hopefully we’ll have a great weather and if not then we can always look out for the rainbow. 🌈

You can make your life a bit more colorful with Private Reserve inks. They have vibrant and rich colors and the design of the glass bottles make it easier to dip pens in any angle.

It’s International friendship day tomorrow and writing letters is a great way to show the appreciation of your friendship.
We have a variety of cards for friendship.
Write a letter to your favorite person!✍️

We now carry lovely sticky notes, stickers and washi tapes from KITTA! 🤩 There is a wide selection to choose from and they will for sure bring an aesthetic twist to your journaling, scrapbooking or any other crafting activities.

Check out all the KITTA collections on our website or you can always come down to the store. 🥰
*tape *tapes

Our favourite local and handmade glass dip pens are back! 😍

came through with more fun and exciting new colors and designs.
With various options for nib sizes and designs, you can now get our own unique dip pen. Some of the color options also have beautiful glitter specs in them.

All the pens are uploaded on our website or you can come down to our store and try them out! 🥰

We had some fun with shimmering inks during the weekend🥳✨
Shimmering ink swatches are now on our sample Traveler’s notebook, and don’t forgot we let you guys try all our inks in the store!
Keep in mind, instruction video for the shimmering inks are coming up soon✨

Let us flex a little on how amazing the Osprey Zebra G titanium nibs are. Aside from looking great, calligraphy with these nibs makes for an absolutely stunning experience.

Osprey also has other flex nib options or the simple choice to stick to the standard nib that it comes with.