Our Story
Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Erin Bennett, the owner of Metaldetect.ca you may also know me from Forest City Metal Detectors. Here's our story...
Steve and I started Forest City Metal Detectors back in 2017 with just a laptop, cellphone and a bucket of ambition... We never imaged the little business we started out of our garage, would grow as quickly as it did and that we would soon need a storefront, warehouse and yet another website, MetalDetect.ca.
We started MetalDetect.ca a couple of years ago to provide even more amazing customer service, because that’s what our customers deserve. We also found that through the years, a lot of amazing ladies looking to get into the hobby really appreciated asking me questions or for advice from a female perspective. When you call MDCA “The wifey company” you will always get me answering the phone, guaranteed.
Now in most marriages come children and together Steve and I have 5 amazing kids, 4 girls and a boy. I guess 5 wasn’t enough because FCMD and MDCA had a baby….we named it Pull Tab Gear, PTG for short.
As most of you know, Steve and I are active in the hobby, and have used a lot of different gear during our hunts over the years. Some great, some not so great and some that just needed a little tweaking to be better or more versatile for all of us in this great hobby. We are also passionate about detecting etiquette and code of conduct so we wanted to build a brand that promoted cleanliness, offered quality, strength, durability and versatility while also being affordable to our customers in this changing economy. We have been working with our designers constantly and consistently for two years now trying to create a line of tools and accessories that our fellow detectorist would love. I think we’ve achieved that with PTG so far and we will never stop working towards that. Stay tuned, we will have more incredible tools and accessories added to the PTG lineup in 2025.
From the very beginning back in 2017, we always said we wanted to avoid having promoter’s because how could we possibly choose when there are just so many amazing ambassadors to the hobby and we appreciate you all. But it happened, and we now have THREE, TEAM PTG Brand ambassadors.
We are absolutely thrilled to introduce our team, so here we go.
Meet Laurie “Goldie” Gagne and Eric Danis of the Red River Gold TV series airing on APTN May 5th and YouTube’s Relic Dirty hands.
Laurie and Eric kind of fell into being brand ambassadors, they ordered our flagship PTG versatility pouches and fell in love with them, then they ordered diggers, and started telling everyone about PTG and it all just happened so naturally and authentically. We’ve since sent them all of our PTG gear and made it official.
We would also like to introduce to you Daniel McDonnell aka “Pop Can Dan”. Dan fit perfectly with Pull Tab Gear for obvious “pop can” related reasons. Plus he’s a stand up guy, too. Dan has been an avid detectorist for 31 years and an amazing ambassador of the metal detecting hobby and it shows in all of his YouTube adventures. It only seemed natural that Pop Can would be such a great fit for Pull Tab gear.
These three amazing individuals embody everything we could possibly want for the faces of Pull Tab Gear and we couldn’t be more excited, proud and honored to welcome them to our team.
Steve and I would also like to take a moment to thank all of our customers, family and friends for your years of support. Without you, Forest City Metal Detectors, Metaldetect.ca and Pull Tab Gear wouldn’t have been possible, and with you, the future looks bright and the possibilities are absolutely endless.
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~Erin Bennett