WeTheNorth Market — the darknet marketplace built for Canada

Since July 2021, WeTheNorth (WTN) has been the marketplace of record for the Canadian darknet: vendors who ship inside Canada, prices in Canadian dollars, escrow on every order, and a bilingual community that keeps it honest. This is the complete guide — what it is, how it works, where its official links live.

What WeTheNorth is

WeTheNorth is a darknet market — an e-commerce platform operating on the Tor network — with a single national focus: Canada. Launched in July 2021 after the shutdown of Canadian Headquarters (CanadaHQ), it inherited that market's community and set about fixing its weaknesses. The name comes from the Toronto Raptors slogan; the attitude comes from five years of surviving in an ecosystem that regularly eats markets whole.

The concept is simple and uniquely Canadian. Every vendor on WTN ships domestically — no exceptions, per market rules. Orders travel by domestic post between Canadian addresses: no customs inspections, no border seizures, delivery measured in days rather than weeks. For buyers, that removes the single biggest risk of international darknet ordering. For vendors, it builds a customer base that comes back.

How the market works

Buying on WeTheNorth follows the darknet standard, executed well: register an account (username and passphrase only — no email), enable two-factor authentication, deposit Bitcoin or Monero, and order with the market's escrow holding your payment until delivery is confirmed. Vendors must publish a PGP key before they can sell. Disputes are settled by market moderators who review evidence from both sides before escrow is released. Support runs around the clock.

Two structural rules define the experience. First, all vendor-buyer communication stays inside the market — no Telegram, Wickr or Jabber side channels — so disputes have evidence and scams have witnesses. Second, the product rulebook is strictly enforced: weapons, explosives, fentanyl and anything connected to exploitation or terrorism are banned outright, which keeps the marketplace inside the norms Canadian buyers actually want.

Getting in: the onion address and the mirrors

WeTheNorth is reachable through its canonical onion address — the 56-character v3 URL at the top of this page, opened in the Tor Browser — and through clearnet mirrors at wtnmarket.net, wtnmarket.ru and wtnmarket.store that open in any ordinary browser. The mirrors are real-time views of the same market: your account, wallet and orders are identical everywhere. Community consensus and the market's own advice agree on the pattern: browse where it is convenient, but log in and transact over Tor, where the market never learns your IP address.

"Five years, three competitor collapses, zero exit scams. On the darknet, that sentence is the whole review." — a paraphrase of the community consensus you will find on the WeTheNorth forum

What is sold on WTN

Roughly nine thousand listings across a dozen categories: drugs and chemicals dominate (cannabis products are a Canadian specialty), followed by fraud-related items, guides and tutorials, counterfeits, digital goods, carded items, services, software and security products. The full category breakdown, with what Canadians actually order, is in our products guide.

Reputation

WeTheNorth's reputation is the quiet kind: it has not exit-scammed, has not been seized, and has kept operating through the Archetyp seizure (2024), the Nexus exit scam (January 2025) and the Abacus collapse (June 2025) — events that reshaped the global market landscape and left WTN as the undisputed Canadian anchor. Vendor reputations inside the market run on public feedback with dispute mediation; the community layer on the forum runs on years of it. More in our reviews page.

Explore the guide

• History of WeTheNorth — from CanadaHQ's fall to Canada's market of record
• Products & categories — what is actually sold on WTN
• Reviews & reputation — how trust is built and verified
• FAQ — the questions Canadians ask first

City guides

• WeTheNorth Market Toronto — the city that named the market
• WeTheNorth Market Vancouver & BC — the cannabis capital
• WeTheNorth Market Montréal & Québec — le guide en français
• WeTheNorth Market Calgary & Alberta — Prairie delivery times
• WeTheNorth Market Ottawa & Halifax — the capital and the East Coast

French-speaking? The complete guide is also available en français — le marché WeTheNorth fonctionne entièrement en français et en anglais.

New to all of this? The buyer's guide at our companion site walks through Tor setup, registration, 2FA, deposits and your first order, step by step.