Rain Gear Pro · Est. 1988
Made by the people who wear it
Rain gear and saw pants, cut and sewn in Canada since 1988. A family business: the Payer brothers build it and sell it, with co-owner Keilan Clark running the day to day.
- Made in Canada
- 38 years on the job
- Family owned
01 · Who we are
A family business in the rain business
Rain Gear Pro started in a garage in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, in 1988. Evan Payer was tired of rain gear and chainsaw safety pants that needed replacing every season, so he started making his own.
Thirty-eight years later that is still the whole idea. Every piece we sell is cut and sewn in Canada. Brian Payer and Keilan Clark run Rain Gear Pro. Brian's brother Evan owns Canswe, the shop that builds the saw pants.
02 · The people
Four names on this gear
Between them they own the brand, own the shop and run the floor.
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Brian Payer
Owner and CEO, Rain Gear Pro
Runs Rain Gear Pro and looks after customer relations. If you have written to us, you have probably heard from Brian.
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Keilan Clark
Co-owner · Operations and brand, Rain Gear Pro
Runs the day to day of Rain Gear Pro: the site, the gear drops, and the crews and partners we work with. You will hear him alongside Brian on In Conversation.
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Evan Payer
Brian's brother · Owner, Canswe
Owns Canswe in British Columbia, the shop that makes the saw pants, the chaps and the Hurricane rain gear. He started the whole thing in 1988.
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Calvin Berger
Cal · Operations, Canswe
Evan's son-in-law. Oversees every part of the operation at Canswe, from the cutting table to what goes in the box.
Rain Gear Pro and Canswe are both family owned and Indigenous owned.
03 · Where it is made
Two shops, one standard
The saw pants, the chaps and the Hurricane rain gear come out of Canswe, the family shop in British Columbia, the way they have since 1988. The Apex and Lynx lines are sewn in Montreal.
No factory on the other side of the world. When your gear turns up, it was cut, sewn and checked by people whose names we know.
04 · What we make and why
Rain gear first. Then the saw pants.
We started in the rain: jackets and bibs for people whose day does not stop because it is wet. Fallers, arborists, tree and utility crews, anyone working outside in weather that keeps going.
The saw pants came from the same problem. If the gear has to survive the work, it has to survive the saw too.
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Rain jackets and bibs
The Apex, the hi-viz Lynx and the Hurricane series. Two-layer shells, unlined, built for long wet days rather than a walk to the truck.
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Saw pants and chaps
Kevlar across the full front of each leg (180°) plus 4 inches on the left side of each leg, sewn in from 4 inches above the crotch down to the ankle. Rated to stop a chain at 3,600 feet per minute, or 4,100 on the ProMax builds.
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Sized for the job
Jackets and bibs are already cut large enough to layer underneath. On the saw pants, size up if you sit at the high end of a waist range.
05 · The promise
What you get from us
- Returns
- Thirty days to send it back for a full refund or an exchange. No restocking fee.
- Origin
- Made in Canada. Cut and sewn in British Columbia and Montreal.
- Shipping
- Free shipping on orders over $400.
- Someone to call
- 1-888-840-2031, toll free, Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 5:00 Pacific.
See the gear. Or hear it from the crews.
In Conversation is our interview series. Every other Wednesday Brian sits down with the people who build this stuff and the people who wear it out. No script, just the work.