Steele’s Home Hardware — Independent Home Hardware Dealer in Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, ON (three-generation family business)
Steele’s Home Hardware at 44 Meredith Street, Gore Bay (P0P 1H0) is a local, family-run hardware and building-supply store that has passed through three generations of the Steele family — founded by Doug Steele, continued by his son Mike, and now led by Stephanie Steele. It is the Gore-Bay-area Home Hardware dealer, stocking contractor-grade and DIY materials on an island where a same-day materials run to the mainland is often a 90-minute ferry and a 4-hour drive.
What they stock
- Benjamin Moore / Beauti-Tone paint, stain and sundries
- Windows, doors and millwork (special-order through Home Hardware)
- Lumber and building-supply core lines for smaller jobs and repair work
- Plumbing and electrical rough-in for owner-renovators
- Housewares, seasonal goods and hardware
Service area
Gore Bay, Western Manitoulin Island (Barrie Island, Silver Water, Meldrum Bay, Kagawong, Evansville), plus contractors heading across the North Channel from the Espanola side.
Why it’s on home.renovation.reviews (out-of-scope-preserved — materials-supplier archetype)
Steele’s Home Hardware does not itself perform renovations — it is an independent Home Hardware dealer, so it belongs to our out-of-scope-preserved “materials supplier” family alongside Espanola Home Hardware Building Centre, Pat Noble Lumber (since 1949), and 10th Line Lumber. These listings exist so an owner-renovator or a visiting contractor can plan their materials logistics on Manitoulin Island from one directory page.
More from home.renovation.reviews
- Manitoulin neighbours:
- H & R Noble Construction (Gore Bay GC + haulage)
- Pat Noble Lumber & Building Supplies (1949)
- First General Espanola / Manitoulin (restoration)
- Reveal Kitchen and Bath (Manitowaning)
- TCK Designs (BCIN designer, Mindemoya)
- R & J Farms Excavating (Gore Bay, excavation/septic)
- McCann Concrete Forming (Gore Bay, ICF)
- Other materials-supplier family members:
- Espanola Home Hardware Building Centre
- Pat Noble Lumber (1949)
- 10th Line Lumber Co (on-island sawmill)
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