Amanda Jackson, owner of Queen Beans in Queen Street Commons on the main street of Port Perry, Ontario is now the owner and operator of the P’lovers Environmental Store in the same building. P'lovers is a Canadian chain created to help people live more sensitively with the earth. Port Perry is located on the shore of Lake Scugog, just a short drive from Toronto, Canada. P’lovers stands for both ‘planet lovers’ and ‘Piping Plovers’, an endangered bird species.
Port Perry joins Stratford and Bayfield, Ontario, and Halifax and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, as a location for this chain of environmental stores. The Planet Lovers stores have been created with the intention of positively affecting the quality of the world in which we live so customers can use their purchasing power to reflect their values and make a difference.
Port Perry's Popularity
Port Perry is a popular place for visitors throughout the year thanks largely to its lake and its attractive Victorian buildings in the downtown area. Its quaint beauty and specialty shops, not to mention the movies, TV series, and TV commercials shot here, attract thousands of visitors each weekend.
Port Perry has doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing. The town was also the primary production location for the film, Fly Away Home, based on local inventor Bill Lishman's experiments imprinting geese. More recently the town was featured in a 2010 Burger King commercial.
P'lovers was started in Halifax in 1992 and the chain is now the largest network of environmental stores in Canada. Their Halifax location was one of the first stores in the country to specialize in environmentally friendly products. Planet Lovers sells products designed to reflect the values of people who love the planet and want to take care of it.
Lake Scugog
P'lovers in Port Perry is located in Queen Street Commons at 180 Queen Street, on the south side of the street, between the Nutty Chocolatier and Brocks Department Store. To get to Port Perry from the 401, take Exit 410 when you get to Whitby and travel north 20 minutes to Hwy 7A. Head east for 3 minutes into downtown Port Perry, beside Lake Scugog.
P’ Lovers’ page on Facebook is also a lively location for products and information for planet lovers. A recent posting has a video of Jim Meaney, owner of Cansolair Inc., showing how he converts pop cans into a powerful solar heating panel.
Queen Beans Coffee House features Organic Fair Trade Coffees from the Creemore Coffee Company and teas from Numi Tea. Their baked goods are made by hand with no additives or preservatives. “No artificial anything!” Jackson says.
Coffee And Treats
They have gluten free treats, breads, and other foods, for people who have any sensitivity to gluten. They also have Circles and Squares bakery supplying butter tarts and other tempting goodies.Espresso, Cappucino, and Lattes are all made traditionally and they will customize your drink to your desires.
The laid back ambiance of Queen Beans and Planet Lovers, side by side in Queen Street Commons, encourages customers to stay, sit down, read a magazine, buy a book, have a game of backgammon or chess, or simply relax.
