Lay your head on some provincial history.

Under his label Dumb Chauffeur, local designer Roy Liang has created a line of pillows featuring offbeat images of Manitoba icons, from the Gimli Viking to Louis Riel. (Now that the revolutionary Metis leader has his own provincial holiday, he’s poised to become a cold-weather Che.) As befitting the frontiersman Riel, the pillows are covered in tough-looking cotton fabric but are soft on the inside with down filling. We can’t wait for the Gabriel DuMont bath towels.—Alison Gilmor