Sources for Fogo Island Inn
Every line on the Fogo Island Inn record, with where it came from, what kind of source it is and the date we read it.
Back to the record- Current as of
- 15 Aug 2026
- Last reviewed
- 15 Aug 2026
- Strongest evidence
- Specified
- Coverage
- Documented across 8 of 8 pathways.
Your stay at a glance
Food sourcing: Regional food suppliers named
Published sourcing details. Confirm current menus, substitutions and dietary requests.
Sleep setting: Low lighting described
Lighting is described without measurements. Bedroom controls and circadian performance are not established.
Air & ventilation: Heat-recovery ventilation specified
The air-exchange figure is the inn’s claim. No test method, filter grade or measured air-quality result is supplied.
What this place offers
Ocean-facing rooms
An architect’s description hosted by Archilovers, not an independent inspection. Confirm your room.
Regional food suppliers named
Published sourcing details. Confirm current menus, substitutions and dietary requests.
Yellow birch flooring
The flooring is named; its finish, sealant and emissions certification are not published.
Practical details and location
The practical details and the map point, 49.7305, -54.1783
The property’s own website
The property's own site: its name and its place are on the page
Safely managed drinking water, Canada, 2024: The World Health Organization reports 97 per cent of the population nationally using a safely managed drinking water service. This describes the country, not this property, and says nothing about what reaches a guest room here. It is recorded because it is the background against which a property's own treatment is worth publishing.
Regional data is context about the location. It does not establish conditions inside a room.
Ambient PM2.5 and PM10 near Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 30 days to 2026-08-17: Modelled ambient air over this location averaged 4.6 micrograms per cubic metre of PM2.5 and 6.2 of PM10 across the 720 hours to 2026-08-17, peaking at 16.3 PM2.5. The World Health Organization annual guideline for PM2.5 is 5. This is the outdoor air over the area, modelled rather than measured on site, and it is not a reading of the air inside any room.
Regional data is context about the location. It does not establish conditions inside a room.
Evidence by area
All eight areas, in the order this index reads them. Every line was read and placed by a person.
Air Ecology
The Inn publishes that the building is ventilated by heat recovery ventilators and states a whole building air exchange every 15 minutes. No filter grade, product, manufacturer, test method or measured reading accompanies the figure, which is the Inn's own.
In their words: “These energy-efficient units continuously replace indoor air with fresh outdoor air ... our building does a total air exchange every 15 minutes.”
The Inn publishes that supply air in guest rooms is delivered from vents fitted low, under the wall, rather than from the ceiling or walls. No supply rate per room or per person is published.
In their words: “In guest rooms, supply vents are discreetly tucked under the wall rather than visible in the ceiling or walls.”
Suite feature lists state that an air purifying system is fitted in the room, with no product, brand, filter grade or standard named.
In their words: “Air-purifying and white-noise systems”
Water Integrity
Not published. We looked and found nothing on this, which is a gap in what we could read, not a finding about the building.
Light Rhythm
The Inn publishes a policy of keeping light levels around the building as low as possible using soft lightbulbs on a 220 volt supply. No colour temperature, lumen level, dimming range, flicker performance or fixture is named.
In their words: “We keep the lighting around the Inn at the lowest levels possible, using 220-volt soft lightbulbs.”
Suite feature lists state that rooms have floor to ceiling windows with sections that swing open, which is a daylight and glazing feature published with no product, glass specification or blackout provision named.
In their words: “Floor-to-ceiling windows with swing-open sections”
EMF Harmony
Not published. We looked and found nothing on this, which is a gap in what we could read, not a finding about the building.
Materials and Textiles
The Inn names the flooring species as yellow birch, harvested in Newfoundland and milled in Stephenville. No finish, sealant or emission certification is published for it.
In their words: “The flooring throughout is yellow birch ... harvested from Newfoundland and milled in Stephenville.”
The Inn names black spruce as the interior and exterior cladding species and gives its source as Cottle's Island. The architect's project description independently states that the exterior cladding is locally sourced and milled black spruce.
In their words: “The interior and exterior cladding is black spruce, sourced from Cottle's Island, located 20 minutes away from Farewell.”
The Inn names Obasan as its mattress supplier and states that the mattresses are made from GOTS and GOLS certified organic materials and built in Ottawa. No flame retardant treatment statement and no certificate number is published.
In their words: “Our Obasan mattresses are made from ethically sourced GOTS- and GOLS-certified organic materials. They are all handcrafted in Ottawa, Canada.”
The Inn names Fogo Island Workshops as the maker of most of the furniture in the building, and that workshop publishes yellow birch as the material of items in its Fogo Island Inn collection. No finish or coating is named.
In their words: “The furniture within the Inn is primarily handcrafted on Fogo Island at Fogo Island Workshops.”
Fogo Island Workshops publishes that the linen robes in its Fogo Island Inn collection are sourced from Lapuan Kankurit in Finland and are made of 100 percent washed linen. The Inn's own suite feature lists mention robes without naming a supplier or a fibre.
In their words: “Sourced from Lapuan Kankurit, in Finland, these Linen Robes are made of 100% washed linen.”
The Inn states that the bed and table linen in rooms and dining spaces is flax based rather than cotton. No fibre certification, mill or supplier is named.
In their words: “In rooms and dining spaces, we use earth-friendly flax-based linen, instead of cotton.”
The Inn states that the textile pieces in the building were made by hand on Fogo Island. No fibre content, dye or textile certification is named.
In their words: “Our textile pieces were stitched, knitted, crocheted and hooked on Fogo Island.”
The Inn states that the bathroom toiletries are produced in St. John's, Newfoundland. No brand, formulation or ingredient list is published.
In their words: “The environmentally friendly toiletries in our bathrooms are produced in St. John's, NL.”
The Inn states that plastics were avoided in the design and construction of the building where possible. No material schedule, substitution list or specification accompanies the statement.
In their words: “Wherever possible, we avoided using plastics in the design and construction of the Inn.”
Food and Kitchen
The Inn names Fogo Island Fish and the Fogo Island Co-Op as its suppliers of handlined cod, lobster and snow crab, and publishes a list of further ingredients set against the Newfoundland communities they come from.
In their words: “Fogo Island Fish and the Fogo Island Co-Op bring us the best handlined cod, as well as lobster, snow crab, and more.”
The Inn names the fishing method for its cod as handline and states that the Fogo Island Fish cod it serves carries an Ocean Wise recommendation, which is a third party assessment of the fishery rather than of this kitchen.
In their words: “We serve seafood and fish harvested in the waters around Fogo Island, including Fogo Island Fish handline cod, which is Ocean Wise recommended.”
The Inn publishes a written sourcing rule for the kitchen, that 80 percent of ingredients are fished, farmed, hunted or harvested within Newfoundland and Labrador, with the remainder following a published sourcing hierarchy. The share is the Inn's own statement and no audit or verification body is named.
In their words: “Our team follows the 80/20 rule: 80% of ingredients they use are fished, farmed, hunted, or harvested from Newfoundland and Labrador.”
The Inn publishes that foraged plants and flowers from Fogo Island are used in its kitchen and offers guided foraging as a guest activity. No forager, quantity or foraging protocol is published.
In their words: “Guided foraging workshops teach you about the edible plants and flowers of Fogo Island and their use in our kitchen”
Biophilic and Healing Design
The architect's published project description states that every guest room faces the ocean and that the bed is positioned directly in front of that view, in a volume running parallel to the coast.
In their words: “All guest rooms face the ocean with the bed placed directly in front of the view of the Little Fogo Islands in the distance with the North Atlantic beyond.”
Read it: Fogo Island Inn, Saunders Architecture Archived copy
The Inn publishes the siting method used to place the building, including routing the access paths so that an existing footpath was preserved.
In their words: “We chose the Inn site and designed access paths in such a way that we could preserve an ancient footpath.”
The Inn publishes a documented construction method for the ground around the building, in which mosses, grasses and other plants were lifted from the site before work and returned to it afterwards.
In their words: “To lessen the impact on the land during construction, we collected the mosses, grasses, and other plants on the building site, and returned them the site when the construction was complete.”
Suite feature lists state that the floor to ceiling windows include sections that swing open, which is an operable opening in the guest room published with no specification.
In their words: “Floor-to-ceiling windows with swing-open sections”
Sound and Sensory Ecology
Suite feature lists state that the rooms are soundproofed. No acoustic separation rating, construction detail or measured background level is published.
In their words: “Exceptional soundproofing and wireless Internet”
Suite feature lists state that a white noise system is fitted in the room, with no product, level or guest control detail named.
In their words: “Air-purifying and white-noise systems”
Disclosures
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