Canadian kilts, home woven tartan or Scottish?

[The Wizard of BC]

The mill you are referring to is probably Fraser & Kirkbright. It was located in E. Vancouver, BC.
This weaving mill was run by Gordon Kirkbright and you may remember that he wove the first and second runs of the X Marks Tartan.
Gordan is a great guy and fought to the last to keep his mill operating. Unfortunately the space is now a brew pub. Gordon is still around and you can find him running FK fabrics on the web although he is now the N. American rep for another weaver.

My IOS kilt is made from Fraser & Kirkbright fabric as is my current, old ratty X Marks kilt. I still have some Tara/Murphy fabric woven by Gordon.
Gordon used almost exclusively Australian Merino wool so his fabrics had a wonderful hand.

You may also remember that while Gordon had weaving looms he did not have the finishing capability in house. He had to ship all the fabric he wove to a finishing mill in Eastern Canada. After finishing the fabric was shipped again all the way across the continent back to Vancouver.
It was this finishing mill that destroyed an entire run of the X Marks fabric which we documented here with pics of the huge tears in the selvedge and large grease stains.